Senior diplomats from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing yesterday as they work to repair strained relations, but offered little specific indication they will lead to a...

5:07AM

Thousands of mainland Chinese have permanent residency in The Gambia, a place they most likely have never visited and never will, as the African country has been unexpectedly profiting from a Hong...

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A former Communist Party official was executed yesterday for raping 11 girls in Henan , China News Service reported, amid a spate of child abuse cases that have stirred public anger.

5:07AM

In a commentary in response to the Snowden case, the People's Daily said yesterday that Chinese were always unwilling to get involved in other people's "mess".

5:07AM

Lei Zhengfu, the former Chongqing Communist Party official embroiled in an unfolding sex-tape scandal, yesterday in court retracted his confession over alleged bribes, saying he and the woman in a...

5:15AM

Beijing has completed a monitoring scheme in Tibet that requires all telephone and internet users to register under their real names, state media said yesterday, as part of a campaign to crack...

5:07AM

President Xi Jinping told his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, that both sides should demonstrate their determination to forge a political solution to their territorial dispute in the...

5:07AM

The Middle East's challenges are too complicated for the US to address alone, a top Chinese envoy said yesterday, as the government seeks greater influence in a region that's the source of 50...

5:07AM

Japan is edging further away from its goal of becoming a "normal country" in the post-war world, Xinhua said in a scathing editorial published this week.

5:17AM

China is determined that its relations with Ghana will not be undermined by the arrest of some 200 Chinese illegal gold miners in a crackdown by Ghanaian authorities, a senior Beijing foreign...

4:27AM

At the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Shenzhen, hopes that a neutrino experiment can lead to a Nobel Prize in physics are buried in a mountain of data.

5:07AM

A young girl shocked her family when she broke her silence and told them she could no longer endure the beatings and abuse from a staff member at school.

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China's National Television has brought another case of "food forgery" to the spotlight in a country where fake eggs, beef and tofu have become staple items in national news coverage.

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Today's Poll

  • Negative involvement in international affairs: 23%
  • Uncivilized behaviour of tourists: 61%
  • Stalled political reform: 16%
24 May 2013
  • Negative involvement in international affairs
  • Uncivilized behaviour of tourists
  • Stalled political reform

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