Chinese to salvage 800-year-old wreckCHINA: A Chinese salvage team is gearing up to salvage the wreck of the Nanhai No 1, an 800-year-old merchant ship laden with…Sat Dec 22 2007 - 00:00
Pro-business candidate Lee (66) sweeps to power in South KoreaSOUTH KOREA: South Korea's main conservative opposition candidate and former Hyundai chief executive Lee Myung-bak swept to …Thu Dec 20 2007 - 00:00
Chinese whistleblowers rush to expose corruptionCHINA: A Chinese government website that encourages citizens to report corruption was overwhelmed on its first day online and…Thu Dec 20 2007 - 00:00
Southern capital feels slighted as Asian powers get cosyNanjing Letter: Nanjing has the feel of a capital city, its thoroughfares wide and on an imperial scale, and yesterday's 70th…Fri Dec 14 2007 - 00:00
Police disperse ant scheme investorsChina: Hundreds of riot police were deployed in northeast China this week to disperse thousands of disgruntled investors who…Thu Nov 22 2007 - 00:00
China joins the space raceBEIJING: China's maiden lunar probe successfully entered the moon's orbit this month, a major step in the country's lunar ambitions…Mon Nov 12 2007 - 00:00
Communist Party congress hears president speak of need to stamp out corruption Hu Jintao pledges reform but not democracyCHINA: Wearing a sharp blue suit, a red-and-blue striped tie and standing on a podium bedecked with pink flowers, China's Communist…Tue Oct 16 2007 - 01:00
Chinese national holiday road deaths drop by 43 per centCHINA: China slowly trickled back to work after an eventful week-long National Day holiday which saw a series of computer viruses…Tue Oct 09 2007 - 01:00
Girl has limbs bound in swimming stuntCHINA: In the latest dangerous feat of endurance by a child in China, a 10-year-old girl went on a three-hour river swim in …Fri Oct 05 2007 - 01:00
China seeks to overhaul its image as supporting genocideChina: In a bid to change public perception that it is in some way supporting genocide in the Sudanese province of Darfur, China…Mon Sept 17 2007 - 01:00
Profile: Lee Kuan YewLee Kuan Yew bears a special title in the city-state he did more than anyone else to create - MM, or Minister Mentor, Lee.Mon Sept 10 2007 - 01:00
Car owners put brakes on driving in the capitalBeijing Letter: Beijing has been in holiday mood for the past few days - strangely quiet, with the traffic moving swiftly along…Tue Aug 21 2007 - 01:00
Korean leaders to meet as tensions lessenSOUTH KOREA: For the first time in seven years, leaders from North and South Korea will face each other across a table as tensions…Thu Aug 09 2007 - 01:00
Blue-sky thinking from China promises cloud-free OlympicsThe news may raise a few sceptical eyebrows in an Ireland still reeling from weeks of rain, but Chinese meteorologists have promised…Wed Jul 18 2007 - 01:00
China's top 20WORLD INNOVATION: China has become the world's factory, where half the industrial goods on earth are made, but it is not known…Mon Jul 09 2007 - 01:00
Getting ahead of piracyBEIJING China has the world's worst reputation for pirating productsMon Jul 09 2007 - 01:00
Chinese police seek cause of blast that killed 25 in karaoke barCHINA: A birthday party celebration in a karaoke bar in northeastern China turned horribly wrong after an explosion ripped through…Fri Jul 06 2007 - 01:00
Irish gather in Asia for inaugural business forumIrish business people from all over Asia gathered in Singapore yesterday for the inaugural Asia-Pacific Ireland Business Forum…Sat Jun 23 2007 - 01:00
Arrests in China as slave workers scandal growsCHINA: Chinese officials have arrested five suspects accused of forcing hundreds of labourers, including children, to work in…Tue Jun 19 2007 - 01:00
You'll warm to the people but beware the Sichuan hotpotChengdu Letter: It's been 15 years since I last visited Chengdu and the city looks as if someone has taken a vast modern metropolis…Thu Jun 14 2007 - 01:00
Foreign investment go-aheadBEIJING: While China once struggled to ensure its citizens kept valuable foreign currency in the country and held a tight rein…Mon Jun 11 2007 - 01:00
Seoul tycoon at centre of assault scandalSOUTH KOREA: It's a story that has scandalised South Korea, a tale that reads like something from The Sopranos or Goodfellas…Mon May 28 2007 - 01:00
'Chinglish' is no laughing matter for Beijing officialsChina: Does the slogan "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your buffalo is not" make you want to visit a new nightclub in Beijing…Mon Apr 16 2007 - 01:00
China nicely into its stride in preparation for OlympicsLetter from Beijing: As the green Beijing taxi with its orange band pulled up outside my office, I reached through the protective…Mon Apr 09 2007 - 01:00
Hong Kong's'Little Sweetie' billionaire dies at 69China: Asia's richest woman, Nina Wang, popularly known as Little Sweetie, who was a vision in schoolgirl skirts and pigtails…Thu Apr 05 2007 - 01:00
China to broadcast first TV show with gay themeChina: Homosexual rights in China will take another tentative step forward this week when a satellite channel launches the country…Thu Apr 05 2007 - 01:00
Hong Kong leader under pressure to take steps towards democracyCHINA: Hong Kong's chief executive Donald Tsang was reaffirmed in his position as leader of the territory in elections at the…Tue Mar 27 2007 - 01:00
Gala balls in Shanghai styleChina: China celebrated Ireland's national day in grand style with the first St Patrick's Day parade in Shanghai and with gala…Mon Mar 19 2007 - 00:00
To school from the fieldsChildren of Chinese migrant workers who move from the countryside struggle to get educated in cities, but a school with an Irish…Tue Feb 13 2007 - 00:00
Yellow River suffers as China powers aheadCHINA: Hydropower projects, less rainfall and severe pollution are just some of the problems afflicting 'China's Sorrow', writes…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
Disappearance of white-fin dolphin a conservation 'tragedy'CHINA: For millions of years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, peacefully swam the mighty Yangtze, but a few short years of …Tue Dec 19 2006 - 00:00
Estranged Taiwan facing reality of China rapprochementLetter from Taiwan: China considers breakaway Taiwan a renegade province, an inviolable part of its territory since Chiang Kai…Thu Dec 14 2006 - 00:00
Human rights lawyer secretly tried in ChinaCHINA: One of China's most prominent human rights lawyers, Gao Zhisheng, was secretly put on trial in Beijing this week on charges…Thu Dec 14 2006 - 00:00
Ex-Chinese bank chief jailed for taking bribesThe former head of China's third-biggest bank, Construction Bank, was jailed for 15 years yesterday after he pleaded guilty to…Sat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00
Retrial sparks hope of justice reform in ChinaCHINA: In a shock turnaround that has sparked hope of meaningful reform of the criminal justice system, Chinese authorities …Thu Nov 02 2006 - 00:00
Minister officially opens Asian Gaelic Games in ShanghaiIt's a long, long way from Croke Park, but Shanghai showed that China can hold its own as a football venue at the weekend when…Mon Oct 16 2006 - 01:00
Marco Polo pasta debate still rages in ChinaXinjiang Letter: Xinjiang, the largely Muslim region in the far west of China, feels a world away from Beijing - the bazaars…Fri Oct 06 2006 - 01:00
Even Thaksin voters are happy in post-coup ThailandBangkok Letter: When is a coup not a coup? It's another hot day in Bangkok and young women wearing skimpy camouflage tee shirts…Thu Sept 28 2006 - 01:00
Understanding 'the rules' is key to success in ChinaLiam Casey, chief executive of Shenzhen-based PCH China Solutions, is bullish on ChinaMon Sept 25 2006 - 01:00
A professional soldier who is loyal to the kingTHAILAND: Thai army commander Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the first Muslim military chief of this largely Buddhist country, has always…Fri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
€6.2m dance case no ballroom of romanceHong Kong: It's a tale of passion, sequins and ballroom dancing that has given a real insight into the glitzy lifestyles of …Thu Sept 07 2006 - 01:00
Death for 3 in cult killings caseCHINA: A Chinese court has sentenced to death three members of a Christian cult called the Three Grades of Servants for murdering…Sat Jul 08 2006 - 01:00
Rumours of imminent North Korean missile test raise tensionsNorth Korea: Fears in Asia over North Korea's nuclear ambitions were back on the agenda at the weekend as the secretive communist…Mon Jun 19 2006 - 01:00
'NY Times' researcher goes on trial in ChinaChina: Zhao Yan, a New York Times researcher held for the past 22 months on charges of leaking state secrets and fraud, went…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
Why the Chinese can't be like the AmericansBusiness: When Lord George Macartney, the envoy of Britain's King George III, arrived at the Qing dynasty court in 1793, he …Sat May 06 2006 - 01:00
China says it is the true home of golfCHINA: Along with giving the world gunpowder, pasta, the fork, the compass, umbrellas, possibly the first case of syphilis, …Thu Apr 27 2006 - 01:00
China's SAIC set for exportsChina's largest passenger carmaker, Shanghai Auto (SAIC), is more than a little keen to make its marque internationallyWed Apr 12 2006 - 01:00
Reality TV shows keep China spellboundCHINA : Time was when all you got on prime- time Chinese TV were dreary propaganda shows about the air force or ecstatic news…Mon Apr 03 2006 - 01:00
China combats moral 'disgraces'CHINA: China's President Hu Jintao has decided that the only way to combat the eight pernicious "disgraces" creeping into society…Mon Mar 27 2006 - 01:00
Irish in Beijing get ready to celebrateChina: Beijing's city government hasn't quite got its head around allowing a parade yet, but the Irish community in the Beijing…Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:00
