Lisa See

Chinese police are circulating a list of eight suspects wanted in connection with an apparent suicide car crash near Tiananmen Square in Beijing that killed five people and injured dozens.

Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

MY IRELAND-SIZED sense of distance had got me in trouble-again.

Plans to rebuild a square are proving contentious, writes Louise Watt

The state banquet in his honour was more than lavish, but still Enda craved the Chinese takeaway of his dreams.

A breakthrough bid to end the Chinese ban on Irish beef could be on the cards, the Taoiseach has signalled.

Chinese business leaders are aware of the “long and sorry saga” of corruption exposed by the Mahon Tribunal but that will not stop them investing in Ireland, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said in Shanghai yesterday.

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.

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.

The white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark today, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture to be repeated by millions of people around the world who are calling for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

FROM Sydney to Pyongyang, fireworks, lion dances and prayers for good fortune ushered in the Year of the Tiger yesterday as a cold snap across China failed to dampen celebrations.

A LITTLE over 20 minutes after Constantina Tomescu won the Olympic Women’s Marathon, Pauline Curley jogged into Beijing’s National Stadium to begin her own victory lap.

The murder of an American tourist and a protest in the Chinese capital marred the first day of competition at the Olympics today.

The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour today, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.

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.

FIVE members of an Oireachtas committee have travelled to China for a 10-day trip that includes visits to many of the country's tourist attraction.

Beijing’s government closed the city’s theatres, Internet cafes and other entertainment venues in an attempt to stop the spread of Sars as the Health Ministry today reported nine new deaths from the flu-like illness nationwide.

Theatres, cinemas, Internet cafes and other public entertainment venues in Beijing were closed today in an attempt to stop the spread of Sars as China’s health ministry reported nine new deaths from the disease.

Slobodan Milosevic's wife may be forced to go to a town where her incarcerated husband's name evokes ridicule and hers hatred.