Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize today for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights” – an award sure to infuriate the Chinese government.

US President Barack Obama welcomed leaders of 47 countries to a Washington summit on nuclear security today and delivered a stark warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.

IN China’s first official response to Google’s threat to leave the country, the government yesterday said foreign internet companies are welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over web censorship.

Relatives of Briton Akmal Shaikh today said the UK government’s failure to prevent his execution in China showed Britain’s “powerlessness in the world”.

CHINA brushed aside international appeals yesterday and executed a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime.

The execution of British citizen Akmal Shaikh by China sparked a diplomatic war of words between London and Beijing today.

A British man sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling received a fair trial, officials said today.

IN a showdown between the world’s two largest polluters, China accused the United States and other rich nations yesterday of backsliding on commitments to fight global warming and the top American envoy declared the US would not change its offer on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

BURMESE democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is set to appeal against her conviction, lawyers has said, as the ruling junta faced a global wave of anger over her extended house arrest.

China’s carefully-controlled state broadcaster finally showed the sensitive footage of a protester in Britain shouting “dictator” and throwing a shoe at leader Wen Jiabao.

Reporting rules which were relaxed for foreign journalists ahead of the Beijing Olympics will not be extended, China said today.

A SHIPMENT of Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe will be recalled after South African port workers refused to unload the vessel and neighbouring countries barred it from their ports, China said yesterday.

A SHIPMENT of Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe will be recalled after South African port workers refused to unload the vessel and neighbouring countries barred it from their ports, China said yesterday.

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader won the disputed presidential election outright, a top US envoy declared today.

The controversial shipload of weapons intended for Zimbabwe will return to China, officials confirmed today.

A shipload of Chinese arms intended for Zimbabwe may have to return home undelivered after sparking an international outcry.

China said today that disruptions of the Olympic torch relay are “despicable” and disputed media reports that said officials were forced to extinguish the torch several times in Paris yesterday.

CHINA has contingency plans to dispatch troops into North Korea and secure nuclear weapons in the event of instability in the hardline communist state, according to US experts who have talked to Chinese military researchers.

Burma’s closest ally China today issued a plea for calm in the face of a looming disastrous confrontation between protesters and troops.

China will take part in a climate change meeting convened by the US government this week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said today.

China has today described a meeting between exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an affront.

Taiwan today pledged to forge ahead with its campaign for United Nations membership, as China celebrated an expected victory after a Taiwanese application to enter the world body was rejected for the 15th straight year.

CHINA’S military successfully hacked into the Pentagon’s computer network, it was reported yesterday, although the Chinese government dismissed the accusation as groundless.

THE Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, mostly minorities such as the homeless and poor, a rights group said yesterday.

China today said its arms sales to Africa violated no international law, rejecting claims by Amnesty International that Beijing was supplying arms to Sudan for use in the strife-torn Darfur region.

The top American, North Korean and Chinese nuclear negotiators met today, a US Embassy spokeswoman said, amid a diplomatic push to resume six-nation talks.

A TIBETAN activist unfurled a Tibetan flag and then set himself on fire yesterday outside the Mumbai hotel where Chinese President Hu Jintao was courting Indian business leaders eager to boost trade between Asia’s emerging giants.

A Tibetan activist unfurled a Tibetan flag and then set himself on fire today outside the Mumbai hotel where Chinese President Hu Jintao was courting Indian business leaders eager to boost trade between Asia’s emerging giants.