Find the area of A. This problem appeared in a magnet Junior High-school entrance exam in Guangdong province. More →

This is an outrage! Rebuild America but don't use American workers. More →

Sitting down at a desk overlooking the Fort Leavenworth military base, Henderson started, like any novice, with Google. Using Mandarin characters, he typed heike -- literally, "black guest" -- pulling up the characters for "hacker." Probably, he thought, he'd find articles rehashing weak Western reports. But when he hit "return," his browser displayed a slew of unfamiliar sites: hackbase.com, hacker123.com, hack8.cn. There were hundreds, maybe thousands. He quickly realized that each was the online headquarters of a Chinese hacker organization, with detailed logs of hacks, contact information for hackers, and forums where users discussed targets. Chinese hackers, it turns out, take credit on their own sites for attacks, leaving a long trail of documentation. They are so attention-driven th... More →

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AIDS became the leading killer among infectious diseases in China last year, ranking above tuberculosis, rabies, hepatitis, and infant's tetanus, the Associated Press reports. It was the first time AIDS was the top infectious killer in China; it ranked third in 2005. More →

A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep. The businessman and his spurned mistress met in Qingdao, pictured here last August, local media report. But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported. The spurned mistress died and the other passengers were injured, the reports said. More →

The building was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and is part of China Central Televisions new headquarters, an angular wonder of modernist architecture that sits astride the city. The CCTV complex was a hugely expensive trophy of Beijings pre-Olympics building boom, the result of many billions of dollars the ruling Communist Party devoted to making Beijing a city of the future. More →