Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama’s influence over Tibetans in his homeland.
A Chinese company at the centre of a scare over tainted milk powder had asked for government help to cover up the extent of the problem.
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/ 27 September 2008
Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China’s Shenzhou VII spacecraft.
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/ 10 September 2008
Angry residents protested as rescuers in China hunted on Wednesday for dozens of victims still missing two days after a mudslide killed 128 people.
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/ 9 September 2008
A mudslide on Monday triggered the collapse of a reservoir of iron-ore waste in northern China, burying houses and killing at least 34 people.
A whole series of problems that have proven tough to fix could give visitors an Olympic-sized headache.
Traffic restrictions came into force in Beijing on Sunday in a last-ditch attempt to turn the smoggy city into a pollution-free venue for the Games.
Yu Pingju has little Olympic cheer. If the government demolishes her house, she may have to watch the Beijing Games on the street.
China launched another attack on the Dalai Lama on Wednesday even as his envoys are expected to have a second day of secretive fence-mending talks.
China’s envoy to the strike-torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday accused Western media and NGOs of stirring up anti-Chinese feelings.