Users of blogs and internet chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the communist political system.

CHINA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un strikes fear into some hearts, but photos of a Chinese street food vendor with a distinct resemblance to the Pyongyang strongman have fuelled online mirth.

The death toll from a horrific rampage by a knife-wielding mob at a railway station has risen to 33 as China blamed ethnic separatists for the “terrorist attack”.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has recalled a donkey meat product from some Chinese stores after tests found traces of other animals’ DNA, the company has confirmed. Authorities said it contained fox meat.

A Chinese thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner.

South African asks court to change bail so he can have loud sex

German groom forgets bride at petrol station

A six-year-old Chinese boy who had his eyes gouged out does not know he has been blinded and asks his family why the sun has yet to rise, state media said.

The number of Chinese visitors to Ireland is set to more than double in the next five years as a new study shows that China has overtaken Germany and the US as the world’s biggest spenders on overseas travel.

A Chinese zoo’s supposed “African lion” was exposed as a fraud when the dog used as a substitute started barking.

At least five people have been injured in a stampede after fans stormed a stadium gate as David Beckham arrived at a Chinese university.

A festival dedicated to dog meat in southern China has been targeted by protesting animal lovers, who have won a minor concession from local officials, said an activist.

This is NOT a picture of a man’s legs, apparently…

Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off over $1m (€762,380) in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures.

She was a food fan, eager for culinary discoveries.

The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was a graduate student at Boston University who was originally from China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, a state-run Chinese newspaper reported today.

Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves.

The company that makes Apple’s iPhones suspended production at a factory in China today after a brawl involving as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory injured 40 people.

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.

The Chinese capital’s heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport.

China plans to stiffen restrictions on internet service providers as it seeks even greater control over the opinions voiced on the country’s lively blogs and other web forums.

China plans to stiffen restrictions on internet service providers as it seeks even greater control over the opinions voiced on the country's lively blogs and other web forums.

China has dismissed reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.