China’s new home prices in December jumped by the most last year even as the country’s biggest cities tightened property controls to moderate price gains.

At least 25 workers have been killed in a fire at a coal mine in central China, state media reported today.

The last-known prisoner jailed for hooliganism in resisting the Chinese government’s crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the suppression, a human rights group claimed.