China currently has around a million people infected with the HIV virus which causes Aids, a figure that could increase ten-fold by the end of the decade.
Twenty-one teenage pupils died and 47 more were injured in north China’s Inner Mongolia region when a guardrail collapsed causing a crush in a dark stairwell.
Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji has told the controversial Panchen Lama that China’s policies in Tibet are ”correct”.
A significant city of the Xiongnu culture — an Asian tribe of Huns — has been uncovered in northern China after being entirely covered with sand for more than a thousand years, China’s state news agency reported on Thursday.
A media freedom group has condemned China’s
”censorship” in blocking access to the popular US-based Google Internet search engine, in place since the weekend.
A two-pronged attack from the east and west shattered all illusions in Beijing on Saturday morning.