Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing has resigned for “personal reasons”, the government said today.

Chinese politicians have backed a measure to end nearly three decades of blanket tax breaks for foreign investors in a step that will raise the tax burden for many companies.

A massive chemical spill was headed downriver from China to Russia’s Far East today, as officials sought to reassure residents of a Chinese city that their water was safe to drink after being shut off for five days as the pollutants flowed past.

China announced today an 11.6% increase in military spending for 2004, a bigger increase than last year in an age when the People’s Liberation Army is racing to make itself competitive and adapt to a hi-tech world.

TWO young students were slowly and “chillingly” suffocated to death by their landlord and their bodies entombed — one in a suitcase and the other in a sealed cupboard, an Old Bailey court heard yesterday.

Four men have gone on trial charged with a string of bombings that killed 108 people and could face a death sentence if convicted, a court official said today.

Chinese police have arrested a man accused of supplying the explosives used in bombings in north China that killed 108 people.

A Chinese man accused of causing explosions that killed 108 people has been captured after a weeklong nationwide manhunt.