China Executes Henan Official for Raping 11 Underage Girls

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stock markets were braced for a fall on Thursday in line with Wall Street after the U.S. central bank confirmed that it would begin to withdraw stimulus this year if the economy continued to recover as it expected. Tokyo's Nikkei ...

China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, built by the state-owned National University of Defense Technology in central China's Changsha city, in a project sponsored by the government's 863 High Technology program, has been named the world's fastest computer.

China's government has been meddling in the markets by buying shares Central Huijin Investment, which holds Beijing's investments in state-owned financial firms, bought shares in , , and , statements to the stock exchange on Monday showed. This ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the killing of 16 rhinoceros in Assam by armed poaching gangs, has found that their tusks were smuggled out of the country to grey markets in China and Myanmar for their supposed healing properties.

Himachal Pradesh Wednesday sought central assistance to strengthen civil and military infrastructure in its areas along the border with China.

Ten people have been killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in central Chinas Hunan Province, according to local authorities. The blast took place yesterday afternoon at Simachong coal mine in Shaodong County of Shaoyang City, an officer with the publicity ...

One more person died Thursday in central China's Henan province due to the H7N9 avian influenza, bringing the nationwide death toll to 32, officials said.The 56-year-old man surnamed Cui died in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, two weeks after his ...

A 55-year-old primary school teacher in central China has been arrested for allegedly molesting a number of female students, officials said Wednesday.Yang Shifu, a teacher from Tongbo county in Henan province, has allegedly molested a number of his students ...

Asking the Centre to “act strong” with China on the Ladakh intrusion issue, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said dealing on such matters should be unambiguous and similar in the case of both Pakistan and China. "The Union government should give a clear-cut message to China on the intrusion issue. These kind of situations have always put people living in frontier areas under difficulties, besides hampering the development process," he said. Omar said the ...