Candid exchange key to Biden's visit
Biden is scheduled to land in Japan on Monday for the first leg of his weeklong trip. The trip will also bring him to China on Wednesday.
New high-speed rail links Tianjin, Qinhuangdao
A high-speed railway connecting Tianjin municipality and a port city in Hebei province started trial operations on Sunday.
Beijing to subsidize accident insurance for elderly people
The Beijing municipal government has launched a program of subsidized accident insurance for senior citizens in the city.
Shenzhen facility for abandoned babies has skeptics
News that Shenzhen will open its first "safe haven" for abandoned children early next year has raised public concern.
Parents say golfing teaches good life lessons
Exposing children to golf at an early age through school programs has nothing to do with flaunting family wealth, but to pass on strong values to youngsters.
Students see benefits from courses in Romanian
BFSU teaches dozens of Central and Eastern European languages, and Romanian has developed into an attractive and mature discipline.
Confucius' lessons still relevant, Xi says
President Xi Jinping said Confucian thought can play a positive role in China's development today.
Screen time leads to bigger waistlines
Children and teenagers who spend lots of time in front of screens - especially TVs - tend to gain more weight as they age.
Group claims Tian'anmen attack
A group, calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party, describs last month's attack in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing as a "jihadi operation".
Erupting volcano forces villagers to flee in Indonesia
Powerful bursts of hot ash and gravel erupted from a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia early on Monday.
Experts say more seismic activity could still come
Experts have warned that more earthquakes of magnitude 5 or 6 may strike Northeast China in the near future.
Israel slams nuclear agreement with Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government denounced a nuclear agreement between Iran and six other nations on Sunday as a "bad deal".
Rupert Murdoch OKs 'amicable' divorce
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his estranged third wife Wendi Deng have agreed on an "amicable" divorce settlement.
Laojiao facilities in limbo as detention system to end
China's top leaders vowed to abolish laojiao - a system of re-education through labor in use since the 1950s - in a policy document last week.
US Ambassador Locke to leave post next year
US Ambassador to China Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American to hold the post, will leave his job in early January.