China marked the 60th anniversary of the assumption of power by the Communist Party with a huge parade that show-cased its military might.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.

BEIJING, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Around 100,000 students in the Oct. 1 National Day Parade are among the first to be vaccinated by law against swine flu, China Daily reports.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.

BEIJING, July 26 (UPI) -- Most of the officials arrested recently for corruption in China have had at least one concubine, investigators say, suggesting an old custom is back.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- Adolf Hitler despised the United States and was determined to annihilate the Soviet Union and the Russian people. His ally Imperial Japan had conquered vast tracts of Mainland China before World War II began and was determined to hang on to it for generations.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- North Korea's unsuccessful attempt to put a communications satellite in space this week was doubtlessly timed to throw a monkey wrench into U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Europe. To some degree, focus shifted from NATO's 60th anniversary and Obama's nuclear-weapons speech to North Korea and Iran. And the Sunday morning TV talk shows predictably were filled with empty rhetoric about taking strong action and not letting dear leader Kim Jong Il get away with international blackmail through missile diplomacy.

WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy may argue that a Chinese-American war is unlikely to start over harassment of a survey ship like that experienced by the USNS Impeccable in international waters off of Hainan island on March 8, and it would be right.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 18 (UPI) -- A member of the Dutch parliament apologized Wednesday for a slur against Chinese people that he sent out on Twitter.