China

China has invited countries from the lower Mekong subregion to visit its Jinghong dam in order to counter claims that its dams are causing the extremely low water levels in the region.

China opened its annual parliamentary season yesterday with a call from the Communist leadership to keep up economic growth, maintain social stability and tackle a yawning urban- rural income gap.

Investigators looking into cyber attacks on Google and numerous other American companies last year have linked the intrusions with computers at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and another vocational school in eastern China.

As part of a scheme to increase fruit exports to China, Thailand is planning a promotional roadshow ahead of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou later this year.

BEIJING — China on Friday urged the United States to call off a meeting between President Barack Obama and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to prevent further damage to already strained ties.

A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake was today jailed for five years for subversion, his lawyer said.

A nine-year-old schoolgirl has become one of the world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a 6lb baby by caesarian section.

BEIJING — Google has launched a map search service in China for travellers taking trips during the Lunar New Year holiday season, despite a row over cyberattacks and censorship.

Despite what their PE teachers might have told them, for many of those who competed in a Chinese marathon earlier this month, it was not the taking part but the winning that counted. Almost a third of the runners who finished in the top 100 have s...

BEIJING — Beijing police blocked China's first gay pageant on Friday shortly before it was to start, stopping an event billed as heralding a new Chinese openness about homosexuality.