China today blocked European diplomats from meeting the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and cut off her phone in anger over the award.

An activist group says police have detained two foreigners who unfurled a Free Tibet banner on an Olympic billboard in the Chinese capital in the latest of a string of protests.

AS CHINA’S ruling Communist Party held its most important conclave in five years, the government has launched an unusually harsh crackdown on potential troublemakers, say Chinese and international human rights groups.

A bird flu outbreak in northern China that sparked the culling of about 370,000 birds lies along a migration route that spans from East Asia to Australia, it was reported today, as officials continued killing thousands of birds east of Beijing.

Chinese police have detained a pair of dissident intellectuals ahead of this week’s anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a human rights monitoring group said today.