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China stepped up its criticism Tuesday of a proposed U.S. law to punish countries with artificially low currencies, saying there would be serious repercussions for the world's two biggest economies if it is passed.
The brothers of a jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner said Tuesday that they were recently allowed a rare visit to see him and that he was in good health.
France and China have agreed to discuss how to work toward easing Beijing's controversial currency controls and making its yuan freely traded, the French finance minister said Friday.
China objected Friday to a U.S. plan to supply radar equipment to Taiwan's air force, even though the sale was far short of the F-16 fighter jets the island's president urged Washington to provide last week.
China vowed Tuesday to keep a tight grip on the Internet, saying it would continue to block anything considered subversive or threatening to "national unity."
China's leaders said faster economic development is the needed medicine for one of its most restive regions, announcing a plan Thursday that resembles efforts already under way in equally tense Tibet.
The wife of an activist Chinese lawyer missing for more than a year challenged claims by authorities in China that he was working in a remote western region of the country and had been in touch with relatives, a human rights group said Thursday.
Train and bus stations overflowed and airports were packed Saturday as tens of millions of Chinese rushed home to be with their families for the start of the Lunar New Year holiday and the Year of the Tiger.
China's crackdown on suspected separatists in the western region of Xinjiang will continue in order to maintain social stability following last year's deadly ethnic riots, a top regional official said.
The slump in China's exports eased last month as industrial output and retail sales rose sharply, the government said Wednesday, showing that recovery in the world's third-largest economy was firmly on track.
China issued its first indictments Friday in connection with July's bloody rioting between minority Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese, the country's worst outbreak of ethnic violence in decades.
The main media arm of the Chinese government said Wednesday it had launched a trial run for an international English-language television news service as part of a drive to boost the country's image and global media influence.
UNESCO has awarded the World Press Freedom Prize to a murdered Sri Lankan journalist whose self-written obituary accused the government of silencing him.
Sri Lanka's army suspended offenses Monday against the Tamil rebels for two days and advised civilians trapped by the fighting to use the pause to move out of the war zone, the military said.
The Sri Lanka military vowed Monday to quickly wipe out the Tamil Tigers after the rebels suffered at least 453 dead and were pushed into a small "no-fire" zone crowded with tens of thousands of civilians.
More than 2,100 civilians fled in one day from Sri Lanka's northern war zone where the military is squeezing the Tamil Tiger rebels into a smaller area as it pushes to end 25 years of civil war, the military said Friday.
A lack of medical supplies has led to the needless deaths of hundreds of hospital patients in parts of northern Sri Lanka ravaged by civil war, the regions' top health officials said.
China issued a government report Thursday praising its rule over Tibet and accusing the Dalai Lama of wanting to restore a backward feudal system in the Himalayan region.
A rights group said Wednesday that a teacher who posted pictures online of schools that collapsed in May's massive earthquake has been sent to a labor camp for one year.
Diplomats from the United States and several other nations visited the Tibetan capital of Lhasa Saturday, after China admitted the group in a move to show its control over the region in the wake of deadly anti-government protests.
China said Sunday it was concerned about U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite that is hurtling toward Earth with 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel.
China's biggest bank said Sunday it has received approval to buy a 20 percent stake in South Africa's biggest lender, the latest big-ticket overseas expansion by Chinese investors.
Railway service inched back to normal Sunday in southern China, a day after one person died in a stampede by frustrated train passengers who were stranded for days because of snow ahead of an important holiday.
China's global trade surplus totaled $26.28 billion in November, the government announced Tuesday as top American officials were in Beijing to discuss trade, currency and Chinese product safety issues.
China will shift its monetary policy "from prudent to tight" in 2008, state media said Wednesday, to prevent its already hot economy from overheating and to try to contain accelerating inflation that threatens social stability.
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