As soon as the US realises co-operation with China is what prevails, Chen would be “consumed in a one-off manner” and abandoned as a “cumbersome asset”, the Global Times said in an editorial.

12:04PM

A couple died in an underground garage in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Tuesday after the driver attempted to back the vehicle into a parking space and accidentally crushed her husband...

10:50AM

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...

8:24AM

Courts in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uygurs to up to six years in jail for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online, in the latest crackdown on...

12:36PM

An annual US State Department report on Wednesday cited China and Russia among the world’s worst offenders in fighting forced labour and sex trafficking, which could lead to US sanctions.

9:52AM

Recent reports of child sex abuse on the mainland have triggered widespread public anger and internet campaigns. Experts suggest the victims - both girls and boys - and their families lack...

10:54AM

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...

8:58AM

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".

10:49AM

Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at...

11:13AM

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...

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Opinion

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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