The Celtic fans having a pop at Rod Stewart last weekend were at least getting into the Christmas spirit nice and early.

Catalonia’s separatists must be delighted that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is not leader of Spain.

The Chinese government’s reaction to protests in Hong Kong is pathetic; it needs to start behaving differently, writes Chris Patten

It is nearly always the case that when a society, or even a section of society, take to the streets to oppose autocracy, the usual cheering from a distant, safe sideline is quickly tempered by prudent apprehension. There are too many examples of human aspiration crushed by brook-no-argument force.

China's foreign ministry has attacked a statement by 22 Western countries at the United Nations urging it to stop holding members of its Muslim population in detention centres.

China is reportedly deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in the region of Xinjiang.

President Xi’s repression of Muslim minorities is redolent of the Soviet Union’s gulag and will foster a new generation of Islamist domestic terrorists, says Brahma Chellaney

London is right up there with New York and San Francisco, vying for the title of top food capital in the world.

Chinese and Russian interests have long collided in the far east, writes Peter Marino

Police have scuffled with protesters at a Beijing courthouse as prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang stood trial on charges of provoking trouble and stirring ethnic hatred.

Blast near popular shrine intended to weaken tourism and economy as man on CCTV not yet identified.

China’s government has alleged that more than 100 minority Muslim Uighurs who were sent back by Thailand after fleeing China were on their way to fight in the Middle East and that some were implicated in terrorist activities at home.

China’s state planning agency yesterday released a list of more than 1,000 proposed projects totalling 1.97tn yuan (€289.5bn) that it is inviting private investors to help fund, build, and operate.

A coal mine shaft has collapsed in north-west China, killing 16 miners, officials said.

Multiple explosions in a county in China’s western region of Xinjiang have killed at least two people and injured many others.

Trials have started for four people accused of killing 31 people in a knife attack outside a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.

A mob armed with knives has rampaged through part of China’s Xinjiang region, leaving dozens of people dead, state media reported.

A total of 32 people in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been jailed, three of them for life, for terror offences stemming from downloading and spreading violent internet content which authorities have blamed for inspiring several deadly attacks.

Police in China’s restive western region shot dead 13 assailants who rammed a truck into a police building and set off explosives in an attack that also wounded three officers, state media said.

Attackers crashed a pair of vehicles and hurled explosives in a suicide attack on a busy street market in the capital of China's volatile north-western region of Xinjiang, leaving dozens dead and injured.

Three people have been killed in an explosion which rocked a railway station in China’s restive far-western region of Xinjiang.

The death toll from a horrific rampage by a knife-wielding mob at a railway station has risen to 33 as China blamed ethnic separatists for the “terrorist attack”.

A magnitude-6.8 earthquake has rocked China’s far western region of Xinjiang, the US Geological Survey said.

Police in western China have shot dead eight “terrorists” who attacked them using knives and explosives in the latest in a string of violent incidents in the ethnically tense region.

The militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement organised the suicide vehicle attack that killed five people in the heart of Beijing this week, China’s most senior security official said.

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.

A Chinese government news portal has claimed that a woman in China’s remote far west is 127 years old, making her the oldest person ever to have lived — but experts raised questions over the supposed record.

A man attempted to sneak his pet turtle past airport security by disguising the animal as a hamburger.

The man who leaked US National Security Agency secrets is to meet a Russian official from Amnesty International, the group said.

Violent incidents have spread this week in a tense minority region of western China.

Riots in a troubled far western region of China have killed 27 people and left at least three injured, state media says.

The local government in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang has said that a clash between authorities and assailants left 21 people dead in what it described as an act of terrorism.

Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama’s Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China’s censorship system to post about human rights and green cards.

AS a cash-strapped Europe scrambles to woo China’s support for a financial rescue package, human rights groups and dissidents are warning that in taking such help, the West will sacrifice some leverage over China.

VINEGAR tainted with antifreeze is suspected of killing 11 people and causing sickness in another 120 after a communal Ramadan meal in China’s far western region of Xinjiang.

The Chinese government is tightening adoption rules to combat child trafficking a day after eight people convicted of abducting or murdering children received sentences including the death penalty.

Ten coal miners have been killed in a gas explosion inside their shaft in north western China.

Seven people allegedly involved in plotting terrorism have been sentenced to death for robbery and murder in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, state-run media reported.

Chinese authorities are tightening security in the western region of Xinjiang just days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

China’s capital woke up to orange-tinted skies today as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, delaying some flights at Beijing’s airport and prompting a dust warning for Seoul.

China sentenced four more people to death for involvement in ethnic rioting last year in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, a state news agency said.