TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Chinese officials have it hard because they drink themselves nearly to death. Soldiers earn so little they can't even afford to beat their wives. Natural disasters help ...

Few diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudentlythey are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as ...

The camera cut to the vice president, who appeared to take the statement in good spirits. Vance had a smile on his face and ...