A veteran Chinese journalist was jailed for seven years for leaking a document detailing the Communist Party’s resolve to target civil press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power.

PFIZER’S impotence drug Viagra is being denied patent protection in the Chinese market, the firm said yesterday.

Hours after an assassination attempt against President Chen Shui-bian, Taiwanese started voting today in a hotly-contested election focused on the military threat from mainland China.