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China firm says first lady's style not for sale

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

The Chinese fashion brand that designed bags and clothes for the country's new first lady has turned down the chance to make a fortune from her endorsement, say...

Tibetan envoy says China can end immolations

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

An envoy of the Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Tibetans would likely end a wave of self-immolation protests if China reopened dialogue with the exiled spiritual...

China jails 20 in restive Xinjiang region

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

China has sentenced 20 men to terms of up to life imprisonment for involvement in terrorism and "inciting secession" in the country's ethnically-divided western...

Two Tibetans set selves alight in China: reports

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Two Tibetans including a mother of four have set themselves on fire in China in two days, rights groups and media reports said Monday, the latest in a series of...

'Richest' China village sends off chief in high style

Mar 22, 2013 (AFP)

Residents of China's "richest village" bid farewell Friday to the man who made Huaxi a socialist paradise, with a 20-vehicle funeral procession transporting his...

Fake bureaucrat takes China authorities for ride

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Authorities in China are hunting a man who posed as a high-ranking government official and took part in all-expenses-paid junkets for years despite not holding ...

China's new president calls for 'great renaissance'

Mar 17, 2013 (AFP)

China's new President Xi Jinping will fight for a "great renaissance of the Chinese nation", he said Sunday as the world's most populous country completed its o...

Show of ethnic harmony at China legislature

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

Wearing an embroidered cap signalling her Uighur ethnicity, Rehangul Yimir's presence in the Great Hall of the People symbolises Beijing's efforts to gloss over...

Obama reaches out to China's new president

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama wasted no time in courting China's new President Xi Jinping Thursday, calling him within hours of his elevation, and then pressing him...

US Senator Rubio says China 'tortures' its people

Mar 14, 2013 (AFP)

US Republican Senator Marco Rubio mounted a fierce criticism of China Thursday as it named its new president, saying the Asian giant tortures its citizens, uses...

China dissident artist Ai Weiwei to release rock album

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose oeuvre already spans genres from film to architecture, is taking on a new medium with plans for a hard rock album, he ...

Petitioners seek rights as China parliament meets

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

A few miles from China's National People's Congress in Beijing, citizens who have travelled from across the country to tell the government about their problems ...

Anger over attack on Hong Kong journalists in China

Mar 09, 2013 (AFP)

Hong Kong journalists have condemned an attack on two cameramen outside the Beijing home of the wife of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, slamming it as a viola...

Award-winning Tibetan writer denied China passport

Mar 08, 2013 (AFP)

A Tibetan poet and activist will not be able to receive a US government courage award in person after China denied her a passport for "national security" reason...

Tibetan self-immolators inspire Chinese painter

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

Stacked up in Liu Yi's studio dozens of China's most sensitive subjects stare out from thick black-and-white oil paintings, from victims of Tiananmen Square to ...

Chinese activist now in US: State Dept

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese writer and blogger Lu Haitao is now in the United States, a top US official said Thursday, refusing to confirm whether he has been given asylum. "I can ...

China divorces spike to escape property tax

Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese couples are flocking to divorce to avoid a new property sales tax imposed by the government, after it left open a loophole for those who end their marri...

China labour camp reform on agenda as parliament meets

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

Two years of forced labour in China's controversial "re-education" system left Peng Hong's life shattered. Now there ever-louder calls for reform as the country...

China village defies officials to demand democracy

Mar 03, 2013 (AFP)

Villagers in southern China were locked in a stand-off with authorities Sunday and were demanding democratic polls after a violent clash with thugs linked to a ...

Keep up censorship fight, urges acclaimed Chinese filmmaker

Mar 02, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese filmmakers must fight censorship even if it means removing their name from their own work, one-time banned Chinese director Lou Ye told AFP in an interv...