It took him days to build. It took the kid seconds to destroy it.

A recent LEGO exhibition in Ningbo, China saw a very cool LEGO brick rendering of Nick, the crafty fox from the recent Disney film Zootopia, put on display.

China’s consumer price rose the most since mid-2014 last month as food costs jumped amid the week-long Lunar New Year holidays, where millions binge on roast pork, duck, seafood, and vegetables.

A Chinese national jailed for life for the 2011 murder of a man outside his internet café on Wellington Quay has had his conviction quashed on appeal.

Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China are leading to concerns over frivolous claims.

CHINA: Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to concerns over frivolous claims, such as one in which a man says actress Zhao Wei stared at him too intensely through his TV set.

A Chinese manufacturing gauge slipped to the lowest level in 18 months, adding pressure on policy makers to do more to support growth.

German groom forgets bride at petrol station

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

An internet and call shop owner has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a customer, whom he kicked to death after he refused to pay in full for a 70c phonecall.

The Deputy State Pathologist has told a Dublin murder trial that the alleged victim had significant bleeding to his brain when he conducted an autopsy on him.

An eyewitness has told a murder trial that he saw the accused throw the victim out of a shop onto the pavement before kicking him at least six times in the head and back.

A number of eye witnesses have given evidence in a murder trial of seeing an internet café owner chase a man out of his shop and kick him as he lay on the ground.

China made badminton headlines for the right reasons as Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei produced a world-class performance to claim Olympic gold at Wembley Arena.

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.

Chinese investors are trying to follow the rules when spending money abroad, the head of one of China's biggest private equity firms says, as global leaders increasingly look to the country to prop up the world economy.

A Chinese national is to go on trial accused of the murder of a man in Dublin city centre in May.

A Chinese man has dressed up as a carrot along with 49 friends to propose to his partner - and it worked.

The news agency run by China's ruling Communist Party launched a global English-language television channel today as part of efforts to expand its influence abroad.

A CHINESE man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who later turned up alive has been given €75,000 in government compensation, state media reported yesterday.

A Chinese man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who later turned up alive has been given 650,000 Yuan (€75,584) in government compensation, state media reported today.

Tapping has been heard coming from a flooded Chinese coal mine where 153 workers were trapped more than five days ago, a rescue official said today.

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.

Swiss Dario Cologna took the gold in the men’s 15km free cross country skiing competition at Whistler Olympic Park in a time of 33 minutes 36.3 seconds.

Police arrested dozens of activists in China as President Barack Obama arrived on his first state visit to the country today.

MEMOIRS of purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang are sure to encounter silence and censorship from the Communist Party, afraid of rekindling memories of the bloodshed around Tiananmen Square that accompanied his 1989 downfall.

A NEW contender for world’s tallest man has been discovered in China, after he attended hospital for surgery.

Chinese families whose children fell ill from poisoned milk have been pressured to drop compensation cases, victims’ advocates say.

Snowstorms that have battered many parts of China over the last three weeks have killed at least 60 people and caused 53.3bn Yuan (€5bn) in damage.

PLANS to twin Dublin City with Beijing have met with opposition from councillors and human rights campaigners.

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

China’s one-child policy has created a generation of only children that now number 900 million, but most Chinese would still like to have two children if they could, a senior family planning official said today.

China is rapidly extending its military reach, buying more long-range aircraft and weapons that will allow it to compete with the US and potentially pose a threat to other countries in the region, a Pentagon report said yesterday.

IT is the world’s largest - and most infamous - square, covering more than 100 acres. And at the weekend, China reportedly posted 1,000 extra police officers in Tiananmen Square to prevent any protests.

ZHAO Ziyang, the former Communist Party leader who helped launch China's economic boom but was ousted after sympathising with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, died earlier yesterday in a Beijing hospital. He was 85.

ZHAO Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader deposed after he sympathised with the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, is in a deep coma and may be near death, a human rights activist said.

Police kept China’s symbolic heart of Tiananmen Square free of demonstrators today, detaining at least 13 people while activists abroad marked the 15th anniversary of the attack on pro-democracy protesters.

A video image shows a man accused of strangling a student couple and later setting fire to their apartment with one of them in the apartment building on the day the prosecution alleges he strangled them, a witness has testified.

PRACTITIONERS of the Falun Gong spiritual movement protested outside the Chinese Embassy yesterday over the alleged torture of fellow practitioners.

The Chinese government today promised things would get better after a month that saw more than 200 people die in workplace accidents.