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Women driven to fury by Beijing police road tips
Oct 30, 2013 (AFP)
Don't wear high heels while driving. Make sure you release the handbrake before setting off. And don't panic if you suddenly realise you're going the wrong way....
Beijing divorces soar over property tax
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
Beijing's divorce rate has soared as couples seek to avoid a property tax imposed earlier this year by using a loophole for those whose marriages end, state med...
US, family urge China to free anti-censorship activist
Oct 29, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Tuesday urged China to release anti-corruption and free speech activist Yang Maodong as his wife voiced fear that he was being mistreated f...
Five killed in China Tiananmen Square car crash
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
Five people including a Philippine tourist were killed and 38 were injured after a vehicle ploughed into crowds in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Monday and caug...
Anti-corruption activists face trial in China
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
Three Chinese anti-corruption activists were due to face trial Monday on charges of "illegal assembly", in a case seen as a sign of an official clampdown on cit...
Arrested Chinese reporter 'confesses' on state TV
Oct 26, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese journalist arrested over a series of articles criticising a partly state-owned firm appeared on public television Saturday to apologise, with state me...
Bo saga draws to close as China court upholds life term
Oct 25, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese court rejected fallen politician Bo Xilai's appeal against his corruption conviction and confirmed his life sentence Friday, as authorities looked to ...
China media regulator speaks out over reporter's arrest
Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)
China's media regulator has vowed to protect "lawful reporting rights", state media said, in a rare official intervention over press freedom after a journalist ...
China paper's front-page demand for journalist release
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese newspaper published a front-page call Wednesday for police to free a journalist detained after reporting "financial problems" at a partly state-owned ...
Chinese villagers clash with police, injuring 27: reports
Oct 23, 2013 (AFP)
Villagers in southwestern China injured 27 police as they attacked officers attempting to arrest two suspects in an apparent dispute over land sales, state-medi...
China court to issue Bo Xilai appeal decision Friday
Oct 21, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese court will rule Friday on the appeal of the once-powerful politician Bo Xilai, it announced on Monday, another step towards closing a scandal that roc...
Outspoken China professor fired for poor teaching: university
Oct 20, 2013 (AFP)
China's prestigious Peking University has defended its controversial weekend sacking of an outspoken pro-democracy professor by saying Xia Yeliang had earned po...
Record-breaking Chinese artist Zeng lifts the mask
Oct 19, 2013 (AFP)
His 2001 painting "The Last Supper" has just sold for $23 million, but growing up in a working class family during China's Cultural Revolution, Zeng Fanzhi coul...
Mayor of Chinese city of Nanjing fired for corruption
Oct 19, 2013 (AFP)
The mayor of the Chinese city of Nanjing has been removed from his post for corruption, state media said Saturday, the latest official to fall foul of a crackdo...
Tibetan poet gives voice to dead protesters in new book
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
A blogger, a taxi driver, a Communist Party official and a Buddhist monk. All of them Tibetan, and all of them driven to the desperate step of setting themselve...
Outrage over $2.5 bn projects to mark Mao birth
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
More than $2.5 billion is being poured into the hometown of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong for projects marking the 120th anniversary of his birth...
China's rich get richer despite slowing economy: Forbes
Oct 16, 2013 (AFP)
China's 400 richest people became $150 billion wealthier this year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday, despite a slowdown in the world's second largest economy. Th...
China officials sentenced in graft suspect drowning
Oct 15, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese court has convicted six officials in the drowning of a man reportedly stripped and held under water to try to extract a corruption confession, a lawye...
China marks 100 years since birth of Xi's war-hero father
Oct 15, 2013 (AFP)
China marks the 100th anniversary Tuesday of the birth of President Xi Jinping's father, a Communist war hero, but analysts say the connection is a mixed blessi...
Chinese official sacked after piggyback to protect his shoes
Oct 14, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese official was removed from his post Monday after a picture of him being given a piggyback sparked an online uproar, state media reported. The image, pu...
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