The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into China’s city-centered market economy.

More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country defended its dairy products Thursday at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.

While China cut rates twice in three weeks, speculation is also swirling that Beijing could chip in with a vote of confidence by pledging to hold onto its vast dollar assets.

MANILA (Reuters) - Two China-made milk products have been found to contain traces of melamine based on initial tests of 30 food products sold in the Philippines, health officials said on Friday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's health minister said Thursday its tests have found minor doses of the industrial chemical melamine in milk powders produced in China by Switzerland-based Nestle....

In the wake of the stunning success of its third manned space mission, China is sitting proud and looking ahead to its future in space.

Police arrest 22 people suspected of introducing the toxic chemical melamine into the food chain in China.

A-Link Technologies from China has set up a $500,000 phone assembling plant in Rwanda that is producing 200 mobile phones a day.

Shenzhou 7, China's third manned flight to space, has landed safely on Earth.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's health ministry said melamine had been detected in 12 food items from China, including cookies, candies and drinks, as the fall-out from China's tainted-milk scandal spread to Southeast Asia's biggest economy.