On July 1, Shanghai launched China’s most ambitious garbage separation and recycling programme ever

The Chinese government has long held up the world’s largest hydroelectric project as a symbol of its engineering prowess.

China unleashed a fresh diatribe on Tuesday ahead of the ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.

Lee Westwood’s ousting of American superstar Tiger Woods as world number one has injected new excitement into a suddenly wide-open golf landscape.

When a huge mudslide swamped a Chinese town in August, word first reached the world thanks to a digital camera-wielding micro-blogger.

China on Tuesday ruled out prospects for fence-mending talks between its premier and Japan’s leader this week.

President Jacob Zuma met his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday for talks aimed at broadening the relationship between Beijing and SA.

Flooding in China that has killed more than 700 people this year and inundated countless communities looks set to worsen.

A strong earthquake hit a remote mountainous area of China on Wednesday, killing about 400 people and injuring thousands.

China on Friday angrily protested at US President Barack Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying it had "seriously harmed" relations.

China’s offer to hold talks with aides to the Dalai Lama is unlikely to bring a breakthrough on Tibet, experts cautioned on Saturday, saying it was a PR exercise ahead of the…

China has cracked a terrorist group plotting to kidnap foreigners during the Beijing Olympics, police said on Thursday. The announcement follows the revelation of two other…

The muezzin’s call to prayer at Kashgar’s main Id Kah mosque is a loud reminder that millions of Muslims here in China’s far west answer to a higher authority than the Communist…

Rioting has highlighted mounting pressures to change China’s controversial population control policies, observers said on Wednesday, but the government shows no signs of…