China has emphasised ethnic unity after assailants killed 29 people in a train station, prompting police to round up Muslim Uighurs for questioning.
China welcomed the Year of the Horse with toned down celebrations as people heeded govt pleas to go easy on firecrackers amid air pollution concerns.
Former US basketball star Dennis Rodman has returned from his second visit to North Korea where he again met the country’s leader Kim Jong-un.
Rescuers have been struggling to reach a remote corner of southwestern China as the toll of the dead and missing climbed to 208.
China’s worst earthquake in three years has killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5 700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.
A strain of bird flu that has been found in humans for the first time in eastern China is not a cause for panic, says the World Health Organisation.
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is now under US protection in Beijing after fleeing from house arrest, a US-based rights group said on Saturday.
When one of your big oil suppliers splits into rival states, that’s a problem for any country. When you’re China, it’s a foreign policy migraine.
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/ 13 January 2011
China said it will be "difficult" for its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency to tour Iran’s nuclear facilities.