In its latest effort to muzzle dissent and steer public opinion, the Chinese government has started to shut or freeze microblogs written by pro(...)

Chinese police have detained activist Liu Ping on subversion charges after she called on(...)

In April 1970, as a 15-year-old Red Guard in the Chinese town of Guzhen, Zhang Hongbing did something he has regretted ever since. After his mo(...)

Underground lending has become common within the Chinese business community as the government-owned banks tighten up on liquidity as part of ef(...)

a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China was “one of the most lethal” flu viruses it had encountered and was more eas(...)

Rescue workers struggled along narrow roads, many of them blocked by landslides, to reach villages devastated by a powerful ea(...)

In the murky world of North Korean politics, you find heroes in the strangest places. One such figure is Inspector O, a mysterious North(...)

It’s lights, camera and action all week in Beijing, as the great and the good of the international film business descend on the Chinese capital(...)

A container lorry trundles across the bridge from Tumen to North Korea, slowing to allow for speed bumps. At the far side a large portrait of N(...)

A heavy machine gun points north in the direction of Pyongyang from a camouflaged bunker on the South Korean side of the demilitarised zone (DM(...)