The man from family planning liked to prowl around the mountaintop village, looking for diapers on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in the spring of 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and...

Chinese officials say they are on course to achieve GDP growth of about 8% this year, and the fall’s dire predictions of massive unemployment leading to social upheaval haven’t been borne out. But last week’s killing of a steel-company...

Amid reports that al-Qa’ida in north Africa had vowed to take revenge for Uighur deaths by attacking Chinese workers in Algeria, the situation in the ethnically divided Chinese city of Urumqi is on a knife edge, with thousands of paramilitary...

China announced plans Monday to establish a social security number system for the welfare of its citizens. The draft of the social insurance law was discussed by the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress, the country’s...

Ignoring Chinese complaints, French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama in Poland last Saturday. Sarkozy was also the first sitting president of the EU to meet the spiritual leader. The Chinese government responded to the meeting with...

The evidence is accumulating. The censorship imposed on the Chinese media about the contaminated milk scandal has had disastrous consequences according to Reporters Without Borders. Last July, a journalist working for the investigative weekly Nanfang...

Four-year-old Xiguang and three other elephants who the smugglers also captured were taken to an animal protection centre on China’s tropical island of Hainan to recover from their ordeals and overcome their heroin addictions.

In their recent paper on Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why have poor countries regulated sooner?, Mary Lovely and David Popp observe that late developers have tended to regulate coal-fired power plants at much lower levels of per capita income,...

Referring to western comparison between the development process of India and China, a commentary in the Chinese official publication, the Global Times (September 16) dismisses them as misplaced and based on wrong models.

Armed with her laptop and her indignation, Zhu Xiaomeng sits in her dorm room here, stoking a popular backlash against Western support for Tibet that has unnerved foreign investors and Western diplomats and, increasingly, the ruling Communist Party.