China Travel News

CANBERRA: Australia is adopting a cautious approach to dealing with Chinese allegations of spying against Shanghai-based staff of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday.

Boisterous crowds turned up at mosques in riot-hit parts of this western Chinese city, ignoring orders canceling Friday prayers due to the ethnic violence, and police quickly broke up a small protest nearby.

THE 'trip of a lifetime' was the verdict from Bo'ness Academy youngsters, back on Scottish soil after a rollercoaster two week trip to Hong Kong and China.

Beijing, July 9 : More traffic and shoppers returned to the streets of China's riot-hit city of Urumqi Thursday as thousands of paramilitary police patrolled.

Four employees of the world's second-largest mining company were arrested in China on suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets, after having been detained days earlier, state-run media said Thursday.

Global travel may be ailing, but China's biggest city of Shanghai is pursuing luxury travelers with a vengeance, bent on restoring a reputation for opulence and elegance that once made it the Paris of the Orient.

AN AUSTRALIAN man is one of four Rio Tinto employees who have been arrested and detained by Chinese authorities, with the Rudd Government demanding Beijing provide "urgent consular access to him". Rio's iron ore sales team was arrested by the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai, including the Australian passport holder, Stern Hu, and three Chinese ...

Gloria Jean's opened the store in partnership with Chinese food retail company Dash Brands Ltd, which is also its master franchise partner for China.

Not long ago, Rebiya Kadeer was considered a symbol of success in modern China: a woman, a Muslim and a millionaire entrepreneur who also held a prestigious post with the Communist regime in Beijing.

A traveling exhibition of the Shanghai Expo was unveiled Sunday in Beijing on the 300th day of countdown to the event.

Until last week, Alice Li's summer plans were simple: work part-time at a convenience store, study for graduate exams and go to the amusement park with friends.

Japan expects opening tourism to Chinese individuals could be a boost to the economy and welcomes all Chinese tourists as long as they meet certain requirements, Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Yoshiaki Hompo told Xinhua in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 23, 2009, media mogul Jimmy Lai appears in a Hong Kong court.

Blue bricks, black tiles and European-style carvings -- all the trappings of a standard colonial home in 1920s in Shanghai.

Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them.

The food, the sights and the people - along with the H1N1 virus - made for a memorable two-week trip to China for Ankeny teen John Schmidt and his mother, Carolyn.

A Taiwan company launched a cruise service with China Sunday, making it the first such cross-strait service in 60 years.

It was just after midnight when the taxi driver dropped us off at the entrance to an alleyway partly blocked by sacks of cement and piles of bricks.

"Anxiety, and a little bit of doubt" - these were the words flight attendant Zou Xue used to describe her feelings before taking off on the first Airbus A320 assembled in China.

The United States on Thursday said it was "deeply disturbed" by the reported arrest of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and called for his release.