The centuries-old lifestyle of nomadic herders on the vast plains of northern Tibet could soon be under threat from a Chinese plan to push them into towns built along the route of a controversial new rail line.
Male giant pandas in a southwest China sanctuary are being fed Viagra in an attempt to get the notoriously sex-shy animals in the mood for mating.
US Internet giant Yahoo! is ”complicit” in rights abuses by the Chinese government after agreeing to a Beijing-backed self-censorship pledge for web pages, a human rights group has charged.
If a country lives by its myths, then the myth of post-apartheid South Africa must be that it had become "the rainbow nation".