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Relatives of political leaders including China's current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands

Will China win its 65-year war with Taiwan -- without firing a shot?

Tibetans required to register for internet and mobile phones under real names

The dramatic trial of Bo Xilai was a thriller right to the very end, and gave rare insight into the life of one of China's most powerful leaders.

HUNDREDS of thousands lined the streets of Vietnam’s capital on October 13th as Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, arrived for a three-day visit. They were not...

ALL industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning-point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of growth. In America that...

China has little attractive power – in the West. But then not everyone is watching China through Western eyes.

Police take on armed gang 'planning terrorist activities' who took community workers hostage in Xinjiang, say reports

Air pollution was the fourth leading risk factor for deaths in China, accounting for the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population, a study said.

A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.

In many ways, the PLA is weaker than it looks – and more dangerous.

China is also complicit in North Korea's crimes against humanity. 

Officials in Cambodia—host to this weekend's Asean summit—are expected to warmly welcome officials from China, a longtime benefactor to Cambodia.

The violence is the latest sign of tension between the Turkic-speaking Uighur minority and the majority Han Chinese.

Thousands of dead fish floating along a 30-kilometre stretch of a river in Hubei province in Central China were killed by pollutants emitted by a local chemical plant, provincial environmental officials said.

Another man is sentenced to 25 years for role in violence that left 24 police and civilians dead in restive Xinjiang region

“HELL is a city much like London—a populous and a smoky city,” wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. It is a description that would suit many Chinese cities...

Social media shows hundreds gathering in southern city of Kunming as officials deny refinery will produce carcinogen PX

The city of Kashgar in Xinjiang is undergoing major development, but it may not bring the stability Beijing wants, reports the BBC's Martin Patience.

Death rates in communities near chemical, pharmaceutical or power plants exceed the national average, but residents face a wall of denial and intimidation

It's not quite the nuclear hotline out of Dr Strangelove, and nor is this the Cold War, but Beijing and Washington are inching towards the sort of military communication that both sides hope might prevent accidents from getting out of hand.