Chinese police are circulating a list of eight suspects wanted in connection with an apparent suicide car crash near Tiananmen Square in Beijing that killed five people and injured dozens.

Ousted politician Bo Xilai recanted a confession of bribery when prosecutors alleged he used his wife and son to help collect more than €2.9m in illicit funds as he stood trial in China’s biggest political scandal in decades.

Veteran Hong Kong democracy activist Szeto Wah, a vocal supporter of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, has died of lung cancer. He was 79.

A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea into a peace park was taken away by Chinese police after staging a brief protest near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Wu’er Kaixi, a student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, has been released from custody after allegedly trying to force his way into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo last week.

A cartoon some Chinese commentators say refers to the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed from the website of one of the country’s top newspapers, just two days before the crackdown’s 21st anniversary.

Hong Kong police seized a second statue dedicated to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in what critics called an attack on freedom of expression in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters demanded today that the Chinese government exonerates the participants in pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that it brutally suppressed 21 years ago.

A massive police presence ringed China’s Tiananmen Square today, the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists, as the government continued an overwhelming drive to muzzle dissent and block commemorations.

FOREIGN journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday as police fanned out across the vast plaza ahead of today’s 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square today as an internet clampdown expanded on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

About 600 people marched silently from a Hong Kong park to government headquarters today to mark the 19th anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Hong Kongers today planned to remember the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing 18 years ago at a candlelight vigil in the former British colony.

Hundreds of people braved the rain and marched in downtown Hong Kong today to commemorate the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests in Beijing 18 years ago.

Chinese authorities have paid compensation to the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten to death by police amid the military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989, an activist said today.

A Chinese government spokesman has rejected comparisons between the fatal police shooting of villagers last week and the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, saying no conclusion has been reached about the most recent violence.

ZHAO Ziyang, the former Communist Party leader who helped launch China's economic boom but was ousted after sympathising with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, died earlier yesterday in a Beijing hospital. He was 85.

Chinese activists have been forced to leave their homes and placed under watch by authorities two days before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, a human rights group said today.

Thousands marched through Hong Kong today to commemorate the slaughter of student activists by Chinese troops who broke up pro-democracy rallies in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

The Chinese government may have to re-examine its justification for the Tiananmen massacre, a victims' group has said.

A Hong Kong author has written a joke book with comic strips about the Tiananmen Square massacre.