Irish tourism bosses are looking east for visitors, hopeful of attracting some of the region’s wealthiest, writes John Daly

Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei is being pursued for nearly $2m (€1.4m) in unpaid taxes and fines.

A Chinese university student who stabbed his sleeping roommate to death because he snored too much was given a suspended death sentence, state media reported today.

The New York Times has welcomed the release today of one of its researchers who has spent 3 years in a Chinese prison.

China has fired back at US criticism of its human rights record, issuing a report that denounced the United States for offences ranging from allowing crime and poverty at home to abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.