Relatives of workers killed in a fire at a Chinese slaughterhouse have blocked traffic and scuffled with police, demanding answers to the disaster.
Rescuers have been struggling to reach a remote corner of southwestern China as the toll of the dead and missing climbed to 208.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un delivered his first major public speech, calling for a push to "final victory" despite a failed rocket launch.
North Korea has admitted its much hyped long-range rocket failed to deliver a satellite into orbit, dealing a blow to the reclusive state.
One of China’s most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family early on Sunday after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail.
China kept silent on Friday about a reported visit by North Korea’s Kim Jong-il that appears intended to line up Beijing behind succession plans.
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/ 29 December 2009
China has executed a British citizen caught smuggling heroin, the British Foreign Office said, in a move condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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/ 22 November 2009
The death toll from China’s latest coal mine disaster reached 87 as hopes dimmed on Sunday that more survivors would be found.
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/ 21 November 2009
A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres underground.