Organizers are confident the global recession won’t prevent next year’s Asian Games in the Chinese city of Guangzhou from replicating the success of the Beijing Olympics.

In a Feb. 19 story about Chinese university graduates taking jobs as housekeepers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted the general manager of a training school and placement service for domestics saying her agency has yet to receive an application fro

She majored in English and loved her job as an office worker in China’s once-booming export industry. But now Xiong Xuhua is jobless and in training to be a housekeeper, a fate she is too embarrassed to tell even her husband about.

Guangdong province, China’s biggest manufacturing base, has reported a sharp drop in economic growth in 2008 as global financial woes hammered the region _ often called the “world’s factory floor.”

The number of wild camels _ rugged creatures living in a former nuclear test zone with increasingly scarce water _ in China’s western Xinjiang territory has grown to about 500, making up about half of the world’s population of the animals, state-run media

China has bestowed the “revolutionary martyr” honor on seven people killed in a wave of violence in the western Muslim region of Xinjiang during a period of tight security for the Beijing Olympics, officials and media reported Thursday.

China has updated an ambitious blueprint to aggressively revamp the country’s key manufacturing region _ a plan that has already helped cause many low-end factories to move or shut down.

China has updated an ambitious blueprint to aggressively revamp the country’s key manufacturing region _ a plan that has already helped cause many low-end factories to move or shut down.

Chinese warships headed toward Somali waters Friday to combat piracy, the first time the communist country has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.

Chinese navy ships usually stick close to home guarding their own coasts.