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Ancient bones offer peek at history of cats in China
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
Five-thousand-year-old cat bones found in a Chinese farming village have raised new questions about man's complex rapport with domestic felines through history,...
Former China death row inmate awarded court payout
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese man who was sentenced to death and spent 12 years in prison for the rape and murder of a child was awarded $160,000 compensation Tuesday after his con...
Stuffed toy wolf becomes anti-government symbol in Hong Kong
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
A stuffed toy wolf has sold out at Hong Kong's IKEA stores, the Swedish furniture giant said Tuesday, after it became an unlikely symbol of opposition to the ci...
Human rights a matter for China, not US: Beijing
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
China on Tuesday rejected a call by US Secretary of State John Kerry to release jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, saying human rights were a matter fo...
US urges China to free Nobel laureate
Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged China to free Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo as the writer and activist marked five years in detention. On...
China farmer kills self over fines for children: report
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese farmer with five children drank a fatal dose of pesticide at a communist chief's house after officials seized his family's annual food supply for viol...
China bans shark fin soup from official receptions
Dec 08, 2013 (AFP)
China announced a ban on the serving of shark fin and bird's nest soup at official banquets Sunday, as part of a sweeping government crackdown on corruption and...
Daughters appeal for China to free jailed fathers
Dec 05, 2013 (AFP)
The daughters of five imprisoned Chinese activists appealed Thursday before the US Congress for their fathers' freedom, saying they have also suffered through B...
Biden criticises China's treatment of US reporters
Dec 05, 2013 (AFP)
US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday criticised China's tightening of controls on foreign journalists, days after British Prime Minister David Cameron report...
No more shaved heads for defendants in Chinese province
Dec 04, 2013 (AFP)
Criminal defendants in China's Henan province will no longer be forced to shave their heads, wear handcuffs or don prison uniforms for trial as standard, accord...
Wife of China Nobel winner pleads for eased house arrest
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
The wife of China's jailed dissident Nobel peace laureate is pleading for authorities to ease the conditions of her house arrest, fellow activists said Tuesday,...
China puts anti-corruption activists on trial: lawyers
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
Three Chinese anti-corruption activists who unfurled banners calling for government officials to declare their assets stood trial Tuesday for "illegal assembly"...
China denies targeting Bloomberg after reporter blocked
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
Beijing denied Tuesday it had sought to target Bloomberg news agency by blocking one of its reporters from a joint event with British Prime Minister David Camer...
Western masterpieces offered up to Chinese buyers
Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)
A $50 million Rembrandt portrait takes pride of place in a Beijing hotel room, with Picassos and Renoirs dotting the walls as major Western auction houses look ...
Communist China restores Chiang Kai-shek's house, and image
Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)
China's Communist authorities have reverently restored an 80-year-old house once used by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, as changing relations with Taiwan t...
China puts another senior official under investigation
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
China has placed a provincial vice governor under investigation, officials said, the latest senior official to fall in a highly-publicised anti-graft campaign u...
Exiled activist repatriated after failed China return bid
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
The second most wanted student leader from China's Tiananmen Square protests was repatriated from Hong Kong Monday in his latest failed bid to return to his hom...
Top China court calls for end to confession through torture
Nov 21, 2013 (AFP)
China's top court said Thursday the use of torture to extract confessions must end, in a legal system that has long been riddled with abuses. The Supreme People...
China reform pledges show Xi assuming Deng mantle: analysts
Nov 19, 2013 (AFP)
By claiming authorship of broad reform pledges after repeated conservative pronouncements, China's Communist chief Xi Jinping is assuming the mantle of Deng Xia...
China reform plan impresses, but analysts watch effects
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
China's quick release of a surprisingly detailed national reform plan shows leaders are serious about economic change, analysts say, but uncertainties remain ov...
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