China has said military officials are in contact with their American counterparts on "appropriately handling" the Chinese navy's seizure of a US Navy unmanned underwater glider, one of the most serious incidents between the forces in years.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is this year’s winner of the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel Prize.

The founder of a grassroots movement to boost accountability for China’s officials has gone trial on charges of disrupting public order but stayed silent during the closed-door proceedings in protest, his lawyer said.

Lost dentures, loose eyeball among sick-day excuses

Chinese authorities have closed a museum which contained scores of fake exhibits, including a vase decorated with cartoon characters billed as a Qing dynasty artefact, state-run media reported.

Violent incidents have spread this week in a tense minority region of western China.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is returning money to his supporters after exhausting all legal options in fighting a massive tax bill that his backers saw as punishment for his activism.

As China’s flood-ravaged capital today dealt with the aftermath of the heaviest rain in six decades, including the deaths of 37 people, questions were being asked about whether the city’s push for modernisation came at the expense of basic infrastructure such as drainage networks.

China has said it supports the Arab League’s proposals for ending the violence in Syria, in a striking show of support just two weeks after Beijing vetoed a United Nations resolution backing the plans.

CHINESE authorities came under fire yesterday after the worst subway accident in 42 years raised fresh fears that the world’s second biggest economy was sacrificing safety in the rush to develop.

APPLE lovers are known for their somewhat radical devotion to any new products the company introduces, but selling body parts to afford them is definitely something new — and scary.

HUNDREDS of dogs being trucked to Chinese restaurants were spared a culinary fate after about 200 animal lovers mobilised to stop them ending up on dinner tables.

COUNTER-CULTURE legend Bob Dylan made his long-awaited China debut yesterday after finally getting approval to bring his charged songs of protest and struggle to a nation where dissent is muzzled.

CHINESE publishers have pulled a collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales from children’s shelves in book stores after mistakenly translating a Japanese pornographic reinterpretation of the tales.

China has set up its own peace prize and plans to award it on Thursday, the day before the Nobel Committee honours an imprisoned Chinese dissident in a move that has enraged Beijing.

SINGLE people in China have come up with an innovative way of pleasing their pushy parents during the annual Lunar New Year holiday — they are renting fake dates.

MORE than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

CHINA’S giant panda could be extinct in just two to three generations as rapid economic development is infringing on its way of life, state media said yesterday, citing an expert at conservation group WWF.

Chinese police captured and killed alleged Islamic terrorists plotting attacks targeting the Beijing Olympic Games, a senior Communist Party official said today.