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Chinese Good Samaritan kills himself over accusations

Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)

A man who aided a senior citizen only to be accused of knocking him down has committed suicide in the face of demands for compensation, Chinese media reported W...

South Koreans trek to China to see their sacred mountain

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

The spiritual birthplace of the Korean people is a volcano steeped in myth and legend. But with the peninsula divided for decades, South Koreans longing to see ...

Chinese state TV eyes Tiananmen rocker for gala: manager

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

China's state broadcaster has invited rock singer Cui Jian -- an inspiration for 1980s pro-democracy protesters -- to perform at its annual new year gala, his m...

14 killed in China mosque stampede: Xinhua

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

Fourteen people, some of them children, were killed and 10 injured in a stampede that broke out as food was being distributed at a mosque in China's Ningxia reg...

China probes almost 37,000 officials for graft

Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)

China investigated almost 37,000 officials suspected of corruption in more than 27,000 cases between January and November, state media said Sunday. Out of the 2...

Macau gambling revenue hits record $45 bn in 2013

Jan 02, 2014 (AFP)

Macau's gambling revenue jumped 18.6 percent to a record $45 billion in 2013, official figures showed Thursday, cementing the city's place as the world's larges...

Thousands rally on New Year's Day for Hong Kong democracy

Jan 01, 2014 (AFP)

Thousands marched in Hong Kong Wednesday to demand a greater say in choosing their future leaders, expressing fears China will limit long-awaited political refo...

Chinese officials set corpse ablaze in cremation row

Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)

Officials in a Chinese village dug up and set fire to a man's corpse after his family ignored their demand that he be cremated rather than buried, state media r...

Chinese director blames tradition for breaking one-child rule

Dec 30, 2013 (AFP)

China's top film director Zhang Yimou has said he violated the country's one-child policy because of the traditional belief that having multiple children would ...

Hong Kong in quest for youth as ageing population looms

Dec 29, 2013 (AFP)

Schools replaced by care homes and a once-vibrant economy dulled by one of Asia's oldest populations: experts fear this is the Hong Kong of the not-too-distant ...

China eases one-child policy, abolishes labour camps

Dec 28, 2013 (AFP)

China's top legislative committee formally approved a loosening of the country's hugely controversial one-child policy on Saturday and abolished "re-education t...

China formally abolishes labour camps: state media

Dec 28, 2013 (AFP)

China's top legislative committee on Saturday formally abolished the country's "re-education through labour" camps and approved a loosening of its one-child pol...

Quiet end and uncertain future for expelled Chinese professor

Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)

Dismissed from Peking University, outspoken professor Xia Yeliang's 13 year tenure at China's most prestigious educational institution ended without fanfare, su...

China marks Mao's birth with noodles and red songs

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Admirers of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong celebrated the 120th anniversary of his birth Thursday with noodles and fireworks, as President Xi Jinping mark...

China vice police minister sacked: Communist Party

Dec 25, 2013 (AFP)

A senior official in China's Ministry of Public Security has been sacked for "disciplinary violations", state media said Wednesday, the latest target in a corru...

China to mark birth of divisive leader Mao

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

Thousands of Mao Zedong admirers will descend on central China this week to mark the 120th anniversary of the former leader's birth -- an occasion that represen...

China legislators vote to end labour camps

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

China's top legislative committee voted Tuesday to abolish "re-education through labour" camps introduced more than half a century ago, saying they had served t...

China to formalise reforms to one-child policy, labour camps

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

China's top legislative committee is set to formalise landmark reforms to unpopular decades-old policies including abolishing "re-education through labour" camp...

Lavish funerals go up in smoke as China orders frugality

Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese officials have been ordered to tone down their increasingly extravagant funerals, state media said Thursday, as Beijing made clear its sweeping austerit...

Rights abuses persist in China despite plan to scrap camps: Amnesty

Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)

China's much-vaunted abolition of its widely loathed "re-education through labour" camps risks being no more than a cosmetic change because of other rights abus...