She was a food fan, eager for culinary discoveries.

The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was a graduate student at Boston University who was originally from China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, a state-run Chinese newspaper reported today.

Food safety is the main concern for consumers in China’s financially significant lower-tier cities, according to a study by advertising, marketing and PR group Ogilvy & Mather.

CRH is building for the future after splashing out €630m on nearly 20 acquisition and investment moves during the last year.

A former police chief linked to a disgraced leader at the centre of China’s biggest political scandal in decades will stand trial on Tuesday on charges that include defection and bribery.

Queen's University in Belfast is to establish a campus in China, in partnership with the China Medical University in Shenyang.

Ireland’s financial fall from grace has seen the capital named as one of the three worst performing metropolitan economies in the world.

A Chinese dissident writer who was freed this week after five years in jail for alleged illegal business activities said today that he had been wrongly imprisoned and subjected to treatment “beyond people’s imagination” while in custody.

Manager Alex McLeish was pleased with the contributions of Nikola Zigic and Ben Foster as the two summer signings made their Birmingham debuts in a 3-2 friendly win over a Hong Kong XI.

The Beijing Olympics will open today, firing the starting gun for the world’s ultimate sporting competition.

Brazil held world champions Germany to a goalless draw as the Olympic women’s football competition got underway across China.

A tiger at a Chinese wild animal park was killed by four others in a fight over their meagre food supplies.

At least 22 people died and seven others are missing after a mine in north-east China flooded, state media said today.

IT could be the ultimate marriage of two ideologies. Wal-Mart, the capitalist retailer for the masses, now has its first communist branch.

China refused to apologise today for three weekends of violent anti-Japanese demonstrations that damaged Tokyo’s Beijing embassy and a consulate in protests over Japan’s wartime history and campaign for a permanent UN Security Council seat.

THE curse of Noel Dempsey struck yet again in China of all places at the weekend. It’s often said that the Minister for Education is accident prone and this was proved beyond doubt in the city of Shenyang when the roof of a building began to disintegrate prompting President Mary McAleese to be evacuated from the building.

President Mary McAleese leaves the country today to lead the biggest ever Irish trade delegation to China for the next nine days.

“IT’S great to be back.” These words summed up the relief of a 42-year-old language school director who returned home to Kerry at the weekend after an enforced 10-week stay in China.

China has opened the gates to give western journalists a controlled first glimpse into its widely criticized ‘‘re-education-through-labour’’ system, decried by the Falun Gong for torture and abuse.