A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea into a peace park was taken away by Chinese police after staging a brief protest near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

China celebrated its rise to a world power over 60 years of Communist Party rule today, with its biggest-ever parade of military hardware and more than 100,000 marching masses.

Tourists visiting Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, site of the 1989 violent crackdown on student demonstrators, will have to pass through a security check, a government official said today.

THE Chinese authorities have paid compensation to the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten to death by police amid the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989, an activist said yesterday.