China’s Tiananmen mothers criticise Xi for lack of reforms
- Asia-Pacific
- May 31, 2013, 10:34
A group of families demanding justice for the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has denounced new president Xi Jinping for failing t(...)
India’s Maoists kill 27 people including senior politicians
- Asia-Pacific
- May 28, 2013, 01:00
Thousands of paramilitaries were deployed in a massive manhunt yesterday for Maoist rebels across central India hours after they ambushed an official (...)
20 years a-growing and Yunnan’s transformation amazes
- World
- May 14, 2013, 01:00
This week’s Asia Briefing comes from Kunming, in the southwest Chinese province of Yunnan, where one of the first sights to greet you on arriva(...)
Chinese mark Tomb Sweeping Day as they honour departed loved ones
- Asia-Pacific
- April 4, 2013, 13:00
Chinese people today mark the festival of Qingming, Tomb Sweeping Day, a public holiday when people honour their departed loved ones by visitin(...)
First lady in focus as China president Xi Jinping goes to Russia
- World
- March 23, 2013, 06:00
Freshly installed Chinese president Xi Jinping embarked on his maiden overseas tour as China ’s leader yesterday, starting in (...)
Chinese seek answers as more floating pig carcasses found in ‘hog wash scandal’
- World
- March 20, 2013, 06:00
CLIFFORD COONAN Nearly two weeks after officials began pulling pig carcasses out of the Huangpu, t(...)
Tough political operator and Communist Party ‘princeling’
- World
- March 15, 2013, 06:45
In the months leading up to the National People’s Congress, which yesterday appointed Xi Jinping as president, the Xinhua n(...)