Angela Meng is a writer living in Los Angeles. She has worked in investment banking at Lazard New York, and as a journalist at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and Reuters in Beijing.
Many of China's most well-known politicians have been kept prisoner in Qincheng's secretive prison, thought to still keep its inmates in solitary confinement.
Rescue workers are now at the partially collapsed building in Huludao City, Liaoning province, after the 5am blast on Friday, thought to have been caused when a liquified gas tank ignited
Finance Minister Lou Jiwei and his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso met in Beijing yesterday in a move that reopened talks for economic cooperation after more than a three-year delay due to tensions between the two countries.
The Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, was carrying more than 450 passengers and crew when it capsized in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in Hubei province on Monday night.
People's Liberation Army launches massive rescue operation involving 180 divers after vessel capsizes during stormy weather, including what the captain described as a tornado
An eight-year-old Taipei girl has died almost a day after her throat was slashed by an intruder to her school , the island's Central News Agency reported.
New State Council guidelines are third time in a week that central authorities have promised to nurture growth of online businesses amid the economic downturn