China said it was difficult to maintain "friendly relations" with Norway, following the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Peace Prize to
China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize.
Fresh heavy rains on Thursday brought more misery to a town in north-west China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1 100.
Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides in decades.
The death toll from China’s worst mudslides in decades more than doubled to 702, officials said on Tuesday.
Security forces fanned out in China’s Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of unrest that exposed ethnic tensions in the Xinjiang region.
Hundreds of rescuers struggled in treacherous conditions on Tuesday to find 106 people buried in a landslide in south-west China.
China observed a day of national mourning on Wednesday for victims of its killer quake, with newspaper front pages bathed in black.
The "Great Firewall of China" appeared intact on Tuesday as the government lashed out at Google for refusing to bow to strict censorship.
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/ 25 December 2009
A court on Friday sentenced dissident Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for subversion, prompting the US to accuse China of persecuting its opponents.