China loves these luxury monsters, and I can see why

Fishermen freed as speculation grows that Beijing may be planning for regime change

Taiwan slammed Manila's apology for the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman as informal and insincere, and said it is recalling its representative and will discourage travel to the Philippines.

The new Chinese premier Li Keqiang will visit India and Pakistan on his first foreign trip since assuming office, Beijing’s foreign ministry announced.

His colleague Andy Green said that before going to the US he had been thinking about retirement

US report makes first  explicit accusation that Beijing is hacking for military secrets

Pentagon report directly links attacks to Beijing government for first time

Downing Street denies PM has been barred from visiting China

China is hosting both the Palestinian and Israeli leaders this week in a sign of its desire for a larger role in the Middle East.

Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, who died on 27 April aged 96, revived the Catholic church in Shanghai after years of Maoist persecution. His death leaves one of China's largest and wealthiest dioceses deeply unsettled, riven by tensions generated by the Communist Party's insistence on tightly controlling all organised religions.

His decision could start an exodus of Olympic boxers

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” flu viruses so far, and that it is more easily transmittable from poultry to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 2003.

China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper.

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