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.

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.

China said it will be "difficult" for its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency to tour Iran’s nuclear facilities.