Wen Jiabao

Beijing When much of the world's most populous country grinds to a weather-induced halt, chaos quickly follows. When it occurs just before Chinese New Year, a time when millions of migrant workers rush home for their only visit of the year, the human...

During the last two months, as Washington focused on Iraq, few people were paying attention to what was going in the remote Ural Mountains of Russia. There, under the auspices of the benign-sounding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, some 6,000 troops,...

by Frank James For years there've been concerns about what would happen if the Chinese decided to sell their vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds which has propped up the U.S. economy. The overriding fear has been that if the......

HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported a record 12 deaths in a single day from severe acute respiratory syndrome yesterday, while Singapore's leader warned that the outbreak could become the worst economic crisis his city-state has ever faced. The concern over...

BEIJING - A team of World Health Organization experts said yesterday that China has underreported the number of residents affected by the new respiratory illness SARS. Other WHO officials said scientists have confirmed the identity of the virus that...

BEIJING - Among the 74 new cases of SARS reported yesterday in China are 47 in the interior province of Shanxi, raising the specter of a new cluster of infections far from the initial outbreak in southern Guangdong. The World Health Organization...

GENEVA - Citing a sudden ebb in the SARS epidemic in Toronto, the World Health Organization lifted yesterday its week-old advisory urging people to delay unnecessary travel to the city because of the highly infectious respiratory illness. But in Asia,...

Zhao Ziyang, the former leader of China's Communist Party who spent the last 15 years of his life under house arrest, came to symbolize an incident that the nation's political elite want to ignore but the world cannot forget: the Tiananmen massacre....

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Australia promised $764 million - the largest government pledge - to the tsunami relief effort, topping a $674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial donors conference today. World leaders were competing to head the donors...