Beijing’s notoriously foul-smelling and poorly tended public toilets will feature some rarely seen luxuries during the Olympics.
A senior Chinese security official said the Beijing Olympics are threatened by sabotage and unrest, state media said on Friday.
When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places.
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.
A leading US congressman said on Tuesday that China was carrying out a tragic crackdown to smother dissent during the Olympics.
China’s devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday met children made homeless by the devastating earthquake that hit south-west China.
Tropical storm Fengshen struck south China on Wednesday after tearing through the Philippines last week, bringing driving rain and uprooting trees.
The death toll from last month’s massive earthquake in south-west China is likely to exceed 80 000, state media reported on Tuesday.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.
The Olympic torch was paraded on Saturday through the streets of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa — the scene of bloody riots in March.
China has released a total of 1 157 people who were involved in riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March.
Hungry hordes craving a fix of diced chicken fried with chili and peanuts during the Beijing Olympics will be able to shout ”kung pao chicken!”
Disasters like the earthquake in China have highlighted the need for countries to develop better emergency communications plans, experts say.
When the people of Fengkai were warned that the rivers in their south China town were going to overflow, they knew what to do.
China’s involvement in Africa has elicited strong concern from its neighbours, but also criticism — not only from the West, but from Africa too.
Chinese police have detained a retired teacher on subversion charges after she decried the state of many schools buildings that toppled.
Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed dozens of people across China, as officials struggle to move thousands of victims last month’s quake.
Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, while over one million residents have been evacuated.
South Africa’s Sasol has agreed with China’s Shenhua Group to jointly produce motor fuel from coal by 2016, it was reported on Friday.
There was no need for apprehension once the term of the current South African government came to an end, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said in China.
Lynley Donnelly reports on an expedition by South African fashion designers to China.
Grieving and angry parents on Thursday marked one month since China’s devastating earthquake toppled schools, apologising to their loved ones buried under the rubble.
Muddy lake water from a dangerously unstable ”quake lake” rushed into the devastated Chinese town of Beichuan on Tuesday, covering about a third of the settlement where the water level was rising fast.
Chinese troops are carving a third drainage channel into the unstable dam holding back a big ”quake lake”, as water levels rise and aftershocks send more debris tumbling into the water, state media reported on Monday.
Optimism is flooding back to Beijing two months before the Olympics, with organisers eyeing success despite fears over pollution, security and the potential for more PR blunders.
Chinese officials have sent condolences and payments to parents of children killed in a school that crumpled in the country’s earthquake.
China’s unprecedented openness following last month’s earthquake is proving short-lived, as soldiers begin to cut off sensitive areas and as local media face growing reporting restrictions.
Chinese troops began easing pressure on a dangerously swollen ”quake lake” on Saturday, with water gushing into a man-made sluice in an operation monitored by satellite.
China readied on Friday to ease pressure on a swollen ”quake lake” threatening hundreds of thousands of people downstream in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
China, facing emergencies ranging from swollen lakes to rehousing millions after last month’s devastating earthquake, is looking to the future.
When last month’s Sichuan earthquake struck, Fan Meizhong was teaching a literature class at Guangya high school in the town of Dujiangyan. ”It’s an earthquake,” he shouted, before legging it out of the door.