XIANGNING, China -- More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine, where some ate sawdust and strapped themselves to the shafts' ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The idea is to squeal if you see it. Hundreds of us crowd the “tree that looks like an elephant,” squinting, tilting heads. A cry attracts a crush of butting bodies and cameras, trying to steal the ...

“The real economic miracle in the world is China,” said Peter Jungen, chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH, at the 2025 Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou on Sunday. He noted that China's ...

China's astronomical growth is remarkably close to a miracle for a country which the West for decades looked down upon as a closed, authoritarian and non-innovative society - good only at copying and ...

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, by Yasheng Huang (Cambridge University Press, 366 pp., $30) Foreign commentators on the Chinese economic “miracle” tend to ...

The sons of an Australian writer jailed in China are hoping for his "miracle" release, urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise their father's plight on a trip to Beijing. Chinese-born ...

undercut by the real estate crisis, as well as weak consumption and export demand. But recent data suggests that recovery has regained momentum. China’s real GDP growth rate in the first three ...