Japanese firms have shut factories in China and urged expatriate workers to stay indoors in the wake of angry protests over a territorial dispute.
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is now under US protection in Beijing after fleeing from house arrest, a US-based rights group said on Saturday.
Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebels.
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/ 8 February 2012
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s visit to the US next week could set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president.
Chinese forces have fired tear gas to break up a protest by Tibetans in the province of Sichuan, the latest flare-up of volatile unrest there.
The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he has evidence that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, now on the run, had helped hire mercenaries.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says he will make job creation a more urgent priority in the face of slowed economic growth and weakened exports.
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/ 16 September 2011
A stream of warnings in state media has exposed how nervous Beijing is about microblogs and their potential to tear at the seams of party censorship.
China’s second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons.
China’s media are curbing combative reporting of a train disaster after what observers said were orders from the Communist Party’s propaganda arm.