The difficulties recently faced by American and international financial institutions have engendered an unprecedented financial crisis. How will this crisis affect the Chinese stock markets, which already lost over 60 percent of their value in the ten months following November 2007?

More and more people are traveling to China for business. And why not? China's economy has consistently remained strong and it is the biggest market in the world. In this two-part series, we present the best business destinations in China. The text was provided by the EU-China Managers Exchange and Training Programme (METP).

Beijing's recent Olympic facelift included a heavy dose of modern city planning. The new Bird's Nest Stadium and the Water Cube aquatics center cater to international sports fans, but the cityscape has received some other quite conspicuous newcomers as well.

China's first regional passenger jet with home-grown proprietary flight technologies will make its first test flight in two months, according to an article on the news website china-cbn.com.

The thousands of journalists covering the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games have the fortune of having one of the world's largest and most modern media centers at their disposal. Radio86 interviewed Matti Varheenmaa from Lenovo about the work that goes on behind the scenes at the world's biggest sports event.

What does it mean to sponsor the biggest sporting event in the world? In this series, Radio86 asked some of the biggest Olympic sponsors to take us into the practical side of sponsorship.

The Chinese Ministry of Railways (MOR) announced on Wednesday that the world's fastest intercity rail line linking Beijing with Olympic co-host Tianjin would be put into formal service on Aug. 1, one week before the Games begin.

China will hasten reforms of Agricultural Bank of China, the weakest of the nation's four biggest state-owned banks, and China Development Bank, the Chinese Cabinet said on Monday.

China has long waged a war against illegal gambling on its territory, despite the fact that it has a significantly long history of legalized gambling: the very first forms of this type of activity emerged there some three thousand years ago, and the first state lotteries were held in the Tang Dynasty. As the fascination with games of chance grows, China has to consider the possibility of liberalizing the gaming industry, or clamp down even harder on its illegal forms.

The number of Chinese netizens reached 253 million by the end of June, up 56.2 percent from 162 million in 2007, the most in the world, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in a report on Thursday.