A Florida State University student has died while studying abroad in China, a school spokeswoman said Monday.
She likes Target, the Food Network and sun-dried tomatoes. She loves taking pictures of her dog Beast, and admits to checking her phone "every five seconds."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announces his marriage to Priscilla Chan.
Despite the fact that it seems to be in the news almost every day of the week, China -- impossibly vast and fascinatingly diverse -- remains a travel destination with an unquestionable mystique. As exciting as that sounds, it also makes travelling to China for the first time an incredibly daunting prospect. To help you venture into the unknown, here's our first-timer's guide to the most populated land on the planet.
Maria Jose Martinez Waldner grew up speaking Spanish and English at her home in Buenos Aires. Several years ago she decided to learn Mandarin Chinese, a language that is rarely heard in Argentina.
Latin America is pulling out the stops to get more Chinese tourists. CNN's Brian Byrnes reports.
Outside the small town of Mediapolis, Iowa, the elementary, middle and high school buildings sit together in one complex, surrounded by acres and acres of corn fields.
As trade between South Africa and China continues to grow, young kids in Pretoria are learning to speak Chinese.
This calm denim-clad 28-year-old identifies herself only as Water, based on the Chinese characters that make up her first name. She has been deemed an enemy of the state, an unlikely label for a petite and well-educated woman who eschews violence and confrontation.
People in China are putting aside political differences to aid Japan in its time of need. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
Disasters usually bring out the best and the worst in people.
Naming a law firm Plentiful Knowledge and Victorious in Our Pursuit of Gold may come across as a bit boastful in the United States. Even as a motto, it sounds brazen and egotistical.
A Michigan man was sentenced to a four-year prison term Friday for conspiring to provide national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials, according to the Justice Department.
Teaching Mandarin is a growing trend across schools in the United States, where the number of students enrolling in Chinese language and cultural programs has tripled in recent years.
China is funding language programs in some U.S. public schools, but not everyone is on board. CNN's Chris Welch reports.
China appeared to up the ante Tuesday in its dispute over Google's refusal to censor Chinese-language search results, blocking mainland Chinese Internet users from using Google search for any query.
Google's search engine was down in China on Tuesday -- a glitch the company initially said was due to its own technical tweaks, but now claims was caused by the Chinese government's Internet filtering.
President Obama announced Saturday that his choice for U.S. ambassador to China is moderate Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who expressed some surprise at the appointment.
President Obama names Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman as his choice for ambassador to China.
As the scandal continued to widen, hundreds of anxious parents lined up at Beijing's Children's Hospital to have their babies examined for possible kidney stones
Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday it has established an Asian
unit specializing in local productions, starting with India, becoming
the latest Hollywood studio to venture into the region
BEIJING -- My favorite memory from Beijing involved Michael Phelps breaking a barrier, but not in the way you might think.
CNN's Emily Chang meets China's Olympic supercop, a police officer who can greet tourists in 13 languages.
Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister to Pakistan, talks to MME about the emerging economies of China and the Middle East.
Its opening may have been an unmitigated disaster of canceled flights, lost baggage and painful delays, but the architects behind Heathrow Terminal 5 say they hope their $8.6 billion colossus will eventually bring a different kind of drama to the traveling experience.
CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae is in Seoul and Kyung Lah is in Tokyo reporting how the rocky U.S. economy effects those areas.
A man accused of killing his wife in New Zealand and then abandoning the couple's 3-year-old daughter at an Australian train station has been captured in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.
The Chinese government is bracing itself for a rush of people wishing to marry when the summer Olympics kick off on August 8 -- because the number carries a special significance in Chinese culture, the state news agency said Sunday.
Dear FSB: A month ago I launched a Chinese/English language exchange, 247yak.com, for people to practice speaking English and Chinese. The target audience is people in China who want to learn English and Americans who want to learn Chinese. It has 250 members, but only a few log in everyday to chat. Activity is a bit better on weekends. How do I improve the website's usage? Facebook users log in almost everyday!
Blackstone Group LP bought a stake in a Chinese chemical company Monday in its first deal in the country since a Chinese government fund bought into the U.S. private equity firm.
Google revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by Google into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
Milwaukee has a Chinese Kung Fu Center.
The clouds on Sunday threatened to rain cats and dogs, as it has been in recent days -- a perfect echo of the weather exactly 10 years ago when Hong Kong became China's after 156 years of British rule.
Hong Kong handover anniversary
After surviving the worst week on Wall Street in nearly four years, investors return to face what could very well be another endurance test. Get ready.
For years, Mexican economists and businessmen have blamed economic woes on China, a country that has sucked away hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and that exports to Mexico 17 times what...
By the time it was all said and done, an astonishing $22 billion had been vacuumed up in a matter of hours. So frenzied was the desire for this initial public offering - the largest in history - th...
After blocking Wikipedia for nearly a year, Chinese authorities in October allowed access to most of the online encyclopedia's English-language entries and, in some cities, to the Chinese-language ...
Slapdash housing construction in fast-growing Chinese cities has generated strong demand for contractors to handle renovation projects.
Fortune: Found in translationupdated: Wed Jun 21 2006 14:17:00
If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy. Focus instead on something cool--really cool: the tiny...
On a Friday in March, executives from some of the world's most powerful investment banks gathered at the Beijing headquarters of the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China to compete in one of the r...
Federal charges were filed Friday against a heckler who interrupted an otherwise highly scripted ceremony welcoming Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House the day before, berating him for the persecution of the Chinese religious sect Falun Gong.
Reaction to government oppression can take different forms, depending on the circumstances and era.
Do you have an inside tip on the Chinese city? Send us your suggestions and ideas below.
A freedom of speech group has accused Yahoo! of complying with the Chinese government's program of cracking down on dissident political speech on the Internet.
The Chinese may be using the Internet in ever greater numbers, but their attitudes towards and needs in cyberspace may be different from what most people expect.
Many of us are involved with commerce at a global level these days, but our understanding of business still needs to be local, especially for the business traveler who has to deal face-to-face with colleagues, partners and competitors overseas.
CNN Connects: China Rising will cover China's role in the world and complex issues facing this dynamic country as a result of its economic boom. The following are biographies of some of the panelists taking part:
Fortune: MICKEY MAOupdated: Mon Apr 18 2005 00:01:00
Last October, on the eve of the National Basketball Association's first exhibition game in China, Walt Disney president Robert Iger stepped before a battery of television cameras flanked by NBA com...
IN THE EARLY 1990s, WANG ZHIDONG JUMPED INTO THE SEA, as the saying goes. The Beijing University graduate left a secure job to set up his own firm in an abandoned school near a street so crowded wi...
Charges have been dropped against a British government translator accused of leaking a memo on an alleged U.S. "dirty tricks" campaign in the run-up to the Iraq war.
THE RUSH IS ON to get a piece of Asia's rapidly expanding television market -- potentially the biggest in the world. The opportunity to capture three billion viewers, many increasingly affluent and...
MANY mass-marketers dream of selling to China's one billion people. Some think of the market less elegantly as two billion armpits. To PepsiCo, though, the market is mouths, and the People's Republ...
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