Who is the richest in China?: Before Rupert Hoogewerf first started compiling the annual list for Forbes magazine five years ago, people could only guess who the country's richest people might be.

Hong Kong considering shifting to Mandarin: Hong Kong may require schools to use the official Mandarin dialect to teach the Chinese language, replacing the Cantonese dialect that Hong Kongers have long been speaking.

Tibetan boy able to recite world's longest epic: The boy, named Sitar Doje in the Tibetan language, is a fifth- grade student at a local elementary school in Shading Town, Banbar County in Qamdo Prefecture. He said he fell asleep one day when he was 11 years old, and woke up miraculously able to tell the story of King Gesser. Now the boy can talk and sing about the story for six consecutive hours.

Computer viruses rampant in China: If you use a computer in China, the chances are that you have to do battle with a virus sooner or later. Official figures quoted by the Xinhua state news agency show that about 85% of computers were infected with a computer virus this year.

China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem: China's rapid economic growth is producing a surge in emissions of greenhouse gases that threatens international efforts to curb global warming, as Chinese power plants burn ever more coal while car sales soar.