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The winning bidder of a pair of Chinese bronzes auctioned off in Paris, France, emerged Monday as a collection adviser from China's National Treasures Fund, and he has refused to pay, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 crashes into the moon in what Beijing describes as a controlled collision.

Chen Xiao had pretty much given up making her own decisions, and so decided to throw open her life to the whims of China's hundreds of millions of Internet users, known in China as netizens.

Tencent, China's largest Internet portal mostly known to us for its hugely popular instant messenger product QQ, published an updated report on the user numbers of its social networking service QZone last week.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Venus Williams won her 40th singles title on Saturday by defeating unseeded Virginie Razzano 6-4 6-2 to win the Dubai Championships.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese officials agreed Saturday to focus their governments' efforts on stabilizing the battered global economy and combating climate change.

Deciding not to bother trying to get it past government censors, the director of Jackie Chan's upcoming "Shinjuku Incident" has decided not to release it in China at all.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday offered North Korea a peace treaty, normal ties and aid if it eliminates its nuclear arms program and stressed her desire to work more cooperatively with China.

The image of the United States around the world has improved in the past year while China and Russia's standing in other countries has slipped, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.

A lecture by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao was disrupted when a human rights protester threw a shoe at him Monday.