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By Royston Chan ZHUJI, China (Reuters) - China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million people in central and southern provinces. [More]

Commentators continue to guess at whether GOP candidates at the June 13 debate in New Hampshire will live up to their promises. But their faces never lie. Sensory Logic's Dan Hill analyzes their expressions for Fast Company to reveal what traditional pundits can't

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?

China has a grand plan to extend its high-speed rail infrastructure to its neighbors. First stop: Laos. For all of its grand ambitions, China has had some problems implementing high-speed rail--severe safety issues, construction fraud, and lack of ridership are just some of the issue the country has had to deal with recently.

This is the complete rear face of the sun, imaged for the first time in this manner by NASA's two STEREO solar imaging spacecraft on June 1. It's intriguing, and also relevant: Scientists are predicting that the next 11-year Solar Cycle could be very muted, which some suggest leads to an extended period of cold weather on Earth.

In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself

There is some speculation among some politicians and pundits that the fog of war will soon extend to the Internet, if it has not already, given a recent report that the U.S. Defense Department will introduce its first cyber warfare doctrine this month, combined with similar announcements from the governments of Australia, China and the U.K.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Torrential rain in two drought-stricken central China provinces triggered landslides and brought down houses, killing at least 44 people and leaving 33 missing, state media said on Friday. The number of people evacuated from the city of Xianning in Hubei province rose to 100,000 by Friday evening, with thousands still stranded, official news agency Xinhua said. [More]

In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine Google's autonomous vehicles, seemingly a vision of the future--they'll potentially make commuting a dream and maybe even help kill the Big Three. But for those same reasons, it has the potential set us back by revitalizing suburbs and damaging the economy

Knowing the bathroom, eating, and cleanliness habits of consumers can make or break a campaign. Question is: How far are you willing to go? How well would you say you know your consumer--not just the broad-stroke stuff, either, like their income or marital status

The already rare Yangtze finless porpoise ( Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis ) faces an 80 percent drop in its population over the next 30 years, according to research by the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, around 1,000 of the freshwater porpoises live in China's Yangtze River and its surrounding lakes, down from 2,700 in 1991 and 2,000 in the year 2000. That number continues to drop 6.4 percent a year, according to Wang Ding , principal investigator for the Institute, who told the Xinhua News Agency, "The next 10 years will be a critical period for the conservation of this species." [More]

When you measure BPA levels based on a lifetime of daily exposure, it turns out our bodies are full of the poisonous stuff. BPA is practically inescapable--it's found in soup cans, water bottles, store receipts, dental linings, plastic-packaged foods, and any number of other products. Canada has already declared that BPA is a toxic substance, and the stuff has been banned in baby bottles in Europe, China, and Canada, but we're still exposed to BPA constantly.

Webcomic XKCD has timed today's piece nicely, given how much the (i)cloud will be in the news this week... 1. Sony, for once, isn't in the hacking news this morning: Instead game making rival Nintendo is now reporting a serious attack on its servers.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency has struck back against Google following the Internet giant's claims earlier this week that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

Black market for organs thrives in China, with more than one million needing organs every year