Gardai in Wicklow are renewing an appeal for information for Yu Xin Li, who has been missing from her home in Bray since June, 22.

A new trailer from Bethesda for the upcoming sci-fi shooter Prey showcases some of the many different objects players can mimic while trying to survive an alien onslaught aboard an abandoned space station.

Rob Heffernan has been restored to sixth place after an eventful Men's 50K walk in Rio.

Andrew St Ledger of The Woodland League looks at the benefits that planting native trees can bring in the battle to control waterways prone to flooding

China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.

Increased infrastructure investment is key to stabilising China’s economic growth, a top state adviser said yesterday, while calling on the country’s central bank to lower the cost of financing for companies and increase overall credit.

Huawei is to focus on the premium smartphone market and gradually withdraw from the low-end segment.

A British man and his American wife have been handed prison terms on charges of illegally trading in the personal details of Chinese citizens after they testified that they bought such information to help companies combat fraud.

Chinese authorities have formally indicted two corporate investigators, a Briton and an American, for allegedly illegally obtaining and selling private information.

Footballer Luis Suarez may have taken one too many bites at the World Cup, but tennis grunters and eye gougers have also been banned, Robert Hume reports

Chinese TV audiences are the latest to declared their love for an Englishman – Sherlock Holmes.

A Chinese couple living and working here are challenging the minister for justice’s refusal to allow their Irish-born 3-year-old daughter return here to live with them after staying with her grandparents in China.

A Chinese man whose €100,000 dog died while having a facelift is suing the animal clinic tasked with making the animal more beautiful to other breeders.

Miss China, a 23-year-old music lover who wants to work with the poor, was crowned Miss World 2012 at a ceremony in Inner Mongolia over the weekend.

Normal service should resume at the Olympic badminton tournament following the decisive conclusion of the women’s doubles match-fixing scandal.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) have launched disciplinary proceedings after four women’s doubles pairs apparently tried to throw matches at London 2012.

A judge has told a Tallaght teenager who stole a Chinese takeaway that “this kind of crap” puts delivery men off doing their jobs.

World governments are viewing the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with wary optimism.

A Chinese government researcher said Beijing is worried about the US economy and is watching whether the Federal Reserve launches new stimulus measures that might hurt China.

Betfair chief executive David Yu has told the firm he will not extend his current contract, which expires in October 2012.

GLOBAL demand for coffee is set to keep climbing, and even a doubling in the cost of the commodity over the last 12 months has failed to quench consumers’ thirst.

Four Chinese nationals were charged today in connection with the discovery of a cannabis factory in Dublin last Friday.

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South Korea’s foreign minister said today it was “obvious” that North Korea sank one of the South’s warships in March, killing 46 sailors.

A Chinese man who sexually assaulted a woman and mugged and beat a young girl has been given a three-year suspended sentence on condition that he leave the country immediately and not return for 15 years.

Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has admitted his interest in Salzburg’s prolific goalscorer Marc Janko.

A Chinese man who sexually assaulted a woman and mugged and beat a young girl is “no longer welcome in this country” according to Judge Patrick McCartan.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said today North Korea could expect no change in its relationship with Washington if the regime continued to insult, provoke and shut out dialogue with the South.

A spurned mistress drove her lover and his four other women off a cliff after losing a bizarre talent contest to decide who would stay with him.

A MANSION that once belonged to Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee in Hong Kong may be preserved as a museum, giving belated recognition to one of the city’s most famous sons, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Carson Yeung’s right-hand man Sammy Yu has insisted the Hong Kong businessman is still interested in taking full control of relegated Birmingham.

The former Formula One racing boss in China has been sentenced to four years in jail for embezzlement, the latest person disgraced in a financial scandal in Shanghai.

Prospective Birmingham owner Carson Yeung has expressed his “shock” at Steve Bruce’s decision to quit as manager and join Wigan.

AS CHINA’S ruling Communist Party held its most important conclave in five years, the government has launched an unusually harsh crackdown on potential troublemakers, say Chinese and international human rights groups.

Birmingham’s prospective new owner Carson Yeung is prepared to hold talks with Steve Bruce who is concerned whether he has a future at St Andrews.

CHINESE mobile phone users can now download film clips of the Korean War and stirring military anthems to celebrate the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Neighbouring countries today cautioned North Korea against carrying out a planned nuclear test, while a top South Korean security official said there was no sign a test was imminent.

Patriot missiles streaked across the light-blue Asian sky and F-16s bombarded ships yesterday as Taiwan beat back a simulated Chinese invasion in the island’s largest-ever military exercise.

Northern Ireland was today branded the race hate capital of Europe.

Michael Jackson's former lawyer Thomas Mesereau Jr has denied reports he dropped the superstar from his client list because of late payments.

A MAN who was jailed for throwing paint on Mao Zedong’s portrait in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during pro-democracy protests in 1989 has been released after nearly 17 years in prison, his family said.

The head of a Chinese chemical company blamed for a toxic spill that poisoned a major river and strained relations with Russia has been removed from his post, the company said today.

Michael Jackson’s accuser Gavin Arvizo is having “a difficult time” dealing with the not guilty verdict against the pop singer, the prosecutor in the molestation case said today.