Sichuan, China News

Handicraftsman performs the making of shadow-play figures at a puppet and shadow-play figure exhibition in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 27, 2012.

Terry Gou, founder of Taiwan's contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.

Joanne Foley is returning to where it all began. The White Gum Valley puppeteer is one of only two Australians invited to this week's prestigious 21st UNIMA Congress in Chengdu, western China.

A piece of British expat Neil Heywood's flesh was carved out of his body by the Chinese police chief in charge of the murder inquiry into his death, it emerged today.

In April 2011, retired forestry official Fang Hong posted a scatological tweet, mocking a powerful Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, the Chongqing party secretary.

In April 2011, retired forestry official Fang Hong posted a scatological tweet, mocking a powerful Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, the Chongqing party secretary.

Two incidents, one regarding Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, and the other involving a blind human rights activist and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangchen, destroyed the myth that the Chinese system is a well oiled machine.

Terry Gou, founder of Taiwan's contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.

BEIJING - New models bearing the Chinese-owned Volvo badge shared a luxury spotlight at the Beijing International Auto Show in April with perennial stars Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus.

Foxconn Electronics plans to team up with Sharp to build a 6G LTPS panel plant in Chengdu, China, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted a Nikkei newspaper report as indicating.

A movement has launched a website to provide a repository of information on worker conditions at Apple's factories in China in the wake ofA media reportsA that the tech giant has treated workers poorly.

Authorities in Sichuan have agreed to consider a Hong Kong government request for the return of a HK$2 million donation used to rebuild a school, after admitting they did not seek Hong Kong's consent before the demolition of the HK$4 million building.

Pianist Li Yundi will serve as deputy director of a newly founded Piano Research Institute with Sichuan Conservatory of Music, his alma mater.

Recent spats between the United States and China are focused on one particular venue: U.S. diplomatic compounds across China , a testimony to the fact that America's soft power is becoming increasingly more menacing to the autocratic communist regime.

The sensational Chinese murder investigation in which the wife of an ousted Politburo member stands accused of poisoning a British expatriate may include evidence from blood samples taken from the victim's body before cremation, according to people familiar with the case.

A senior Hong Kong government official will visit quake-devastated Sichuan Province after a damaged school that was rebuilt thanks to the government's donation was demolished for a massive real estate project.

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THE Hong Kong government plans to reclaim millions of yuan it donated to a quake-devastated city in southwest China to rebuild a damaged school after local authorities pulled down that school for a massive real estate project.

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