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Byline: Melinda Liu Hong Kong has an election coming up for its next Chief Executive on March 25. The choice won't go to the people, however; the only voters will [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China's stock markets are smoking, and smart money is flooding into the country; last year foreign direct investment reached nearly $70 billion. Add to that a 2006 [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu, Mac Margolis, Mary Carmichael, Jonathon Mummolo Terror: Big Trouble in Western China Does the international war on terror have a new front? Earlier this month, police in [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Once every decade or two, in the life of a great nation, celestial bodies align just right and set the stage for change. For the People's Republic [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith, Melinda Liu and Rachel Makabi; Linda Stern; Mark Hosenball; Rebecca Hall; Malak Hamwi; Nisid Hajari Washington: A Worried World The Democrats' victory in last week's U.S. midterm [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) In the countryside outside Beijing, what looks like a luxury guesthouse is rising amid fruit orchards, replete with a fitness center and [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Steven Levy in Irvine, California) With his longish hair, casual polo shirt and baggy shorts, Li Zhi looks like the entrepreneurial boss of a small-town computer [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Lhasa is not quite hot enough to have its own stock exchange, not yet. But on the trading floor of the Tibet Securities Company, a large hall [...]

***** CORRECTION: In 'Bound to the Tracks' (July 17) we incorrectly said Golmud was the capital of China's Qinghai Province. It is Xining. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Melinda [...]

Byline: Reported by Stefan Theil in Berlin, Steven Ambrus in Bogota, Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi, Melinda Liu in Hangzhou, Anna Nemtsova in Tbilisi, Rana Foroohar in London and Tony [...]

Byline: Lally Weymouth (Mac Margolis Melinda Liu Mark Hosenball, Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff John D. Sparks Patrick White Ramin Setoodeh Ginanne Brownell Jamie Reno) Latin America: A Continental Rift [...]

China's rulers have considered Taiwan a defector province that must be reunited with the Chinese mainland even by force if necessary since 1949 and at present Chinese officials offered Taiwan a gift in the form of two pandas to resolve the standoff. Though the Taiwan people are happy but Taiwan's President wants the government to refuse this offer as he and the Taiwanese media feel that accepting the pandas as a gift could be equivalent to accepting Beijing's claim that Taiwan belongs to China.

Byline: Melinda Liu Early last year, New York Times researcher Zhao Yan was detained by Chinese authorities after the paper published an article accurately predicting that Chinese leader Jiang Zemin [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu As Beijing's economy and global influence continue to grow, so does the relationship between China and the United States. When George W. Bush visited China recently, he [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu There's hardly a better spawning ground for a bird-flu pandemic. If the virus makes the leap to human-to-human transmission, the odds are strong that it will happen [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu In the '90s, the Chongqing Special Steelworks was touted as a modern state-run enterprise, with fat profits and grand plans to expand. In fact, its managers were [...]

China has an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 e-police who collectively serve as an Orwellian Big Brother for the country's nearly 100 million Internet users. E-police proactively influence Web content in ways beneficial to the regime and pre-empt citizens from organizing politically, aiming to stifle dissent and control the free flow of information, and increasingly, to shape public opinion in cyberspace.

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Quindlen Krovatin) Like many Chinese twenty-somethings, Lu Ruchao loves to surf the Internet. He often visits a local chat room to sample the neighborhood buzz. One [...]

Washington used to have most of the chips in six-party talks over Pyongyang's nuclear program however Beijing is the key player now. The North Korean nuclear agreement was evidence of a perceptible shift in power balances, both in Asia and around the world, as for the first time, America hewed to the Chinese line, and the Bush administration weakened by Iraq, hurricane damage and falling poll numbers was willing to compromise.

Byline: Michael Hirsh and Melinda Liu (With Sarah Schafer in Beijing and B. J. Lee in Seoul) High-stakes diplomacy is not unlike 'Celebrity Poker.' In both there is a big [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu, Owen Matthews, Mark Duffy, Joe Cochrane, John Sparks, Elise Soukup, Nick Summers, Nicki Gostin CHINA: Guess Hu's Not Coming To Dinner One might assume that a summit [...]

The Chinese economy is showing evidence of retreating from a boom widely viewed by economists as unsustainable. Falling prices and profits, and a drop in the country's demand for oil imports signal that the breakneck boom is shifting to a safer speed.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein asserts his rights before an Iraqi Special Tribunal judge as the tribunals' biggest responsibility is to make sure this defendant gets an impeccably fair trial. The tribunal is looking at Saddam in connection with 14 separate alleged crimes against humanity, including gas attacks and mass executions of thousands of Kurdish and Shiite civilians and the killings of religious and political figures over three decades.

Byline: Melinda Liu He's as shameless as ever. The Arab news channel Al Arabiya aired a video clip of Saddam Hussein last week confidently asserting his rights before an Iraqi [...]

Byline: Scott Johnson and Melinda Liu (With Mark Hosenball and John Barry in Washington) No one challenged the bomber as he approached his target. Iraqi sentries waved him through the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Wang Qishan may have imagined that he had foreseen every possible pitfall for the 2008 Olympics--but that was before the World Snooker Tournament came to town. As [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Christian Caryl in Tokyo and Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing) If there was a script, this wasn't in it. China's president, Hu Jintao, convened an emergency session [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Stephen Glain in Washington and bureau reports) The new port of Gwadar will be unveiled April 6 as the 'Dubai of Pakistan,' even if it lacks [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With John Barry in Washington, Karen MacGregor in Durban, Eric Pape and Marie Valla in Paris, Joe Cochrane in Phnom Penh, and Mac Margolis in Rio) A [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu and John Barry (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei and bureau reports) Ask a party bureaucrat in Beijing about China's foreign ambitions these days, and the reply may [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Eve Conant in Washington) Not so long ago, you would have been courting death by trying to drive from Colombo to Kilinochchi. Now aid convoys are [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu As a child, Chen Tianqiao's greatest dream was to fulfill his parents' expectations and become a government official. After graduation he joined a state-owned enterprise for four [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu IBM is finally out of the PC business. Though that may have come as no surprise to those who understood that this particular sector was hardly the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield (With Craig Simons in Beijing) Not so long ago many Western CEOs couldn't even say what the renminbi was, much less whether it should [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu (With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing and Jonathan Adams in Taipei) If a camel is a horse built by committee, why is China a thoroughbred? The world's fastest-growing [...]

Ten innovations, which can change the normal lives of human beings with an eye on the future, are presented. These ideas which looks to be silly, impractical and dangerous in the first place when developed actually enhances one's life and these innovations are finding commercial applications also.