29 March, 2010 03:59:00
China is spending as much on defence as on domestic security. It has earmarked $370 bn to combat increasing mass protests. Since 2007, the country ...
15 March, 2010 03:06:00
Chinese authorities have rounded up more than a thousand people on the charge that they have threatened tthe country's security', Hong Kong-based human rights group, ...
10 March, 2010 02:35:00
China has once again put dissident journalists on notice by sacking Zhang Hong, the deputy editor in chief of Beijing based weekly, Economic Observer’s Internet ...
11 March, 2010 01:00:00
Hundreds of Tibetans are being rounded up and detained in Lhasa and armed paramilitary groups are patrolling the streets in advance of the anniversary of ...
04 March, 2010 10:55:00
Chinese authorities are seeking greater control of the country's estimated 140,000 plus internet cafes. One proposal under consideration enviages a total ban on these cafes ...
03 March, 2010 11:36:00
China has recorded its widest wealth gap since economic reforms began in 1978 threatening the social stability of the country, say experts.The average annual income ...
09 February, 2010 12:37:00
A Chinese-born aerospace engineer, Greg Chung Dongfan ( 73) was jailed for more than 15 years in the United States on Feb 9 after being ...
28 January, 2010 07:57:00
China’s popular Karaoke Bars have come under moral censors. Surveillance system is being fitted in these joints to let the authorities know when illegal music ...
28 January, 2010 07:46:00
US sanctions are not coming in the way of Chinese companies doing ‘nuclear business’ with American firms, a study reveals. American companies are no less ...
20 January, 2010 03:35:00
Google has taken its first concrete step out of China, postponing the launch of two mobile phones produced specifically for the Chinese market, Jane Macartney ...
13 January, 2010 03:20:00
Piqued by ‘attacks’ on its e-mail service, Google has threatened to pull out of China.A primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts ...
15 January, 2010 02:10:00
A prominent Chinese lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, is reported to have “gone missing” while in the custody of the Chinese police. The Chinese authorities have told his ...
21 January, 2010 02:08:00
Chinese democracy leader Zhou Yongjun has been sentenced to nine years in jail, the latest in a series of tough prison terms to be handed ...
07 January, 2010 01:26:00
'Leaving Fear Behind' a film that Chinese governmnt sees as pro-Dalai Lama, has landed its Tibetan maker Dhondup Wangchen in jail. He produced the film ...
07 January, 2010 12:08:00
After 'filtering' Internt content and arresting 5000 people for visiting porn sites, the Chinese authorities are facing a piquant situation. An American software maker has ...
29 December, 2009 02:56:00
China executed on Tuesday a British citizen, Akmal Shaikh (53) on charges of smuggling heroin. He is the first national from a European Union country ...
17 December, 2009 12:40:00
In what is a first for China, a report with official imprimatur admits to the existence of secret detention centres across the country. Capital Beijing ...
04 November, 2009 07:58:00
Cyber warfare will provide China with an asymmetric advantage to deter aggression from stronger military powers and also allow it to leapfrog by means of ...
04 November, 2009 01:20:00
One of China’s most notorious illegal casino operators, a 46-year-old woman who kept a stable of 16 young men as her lovers, was sentenced to ...
17 October, 2009 01:58:00
A Xinjiang Court has sentenced six men to death on October 12 for murder and other crimes committed during July ethnic riots that left nearly ...
03 September, 2009 07:50:00
A new round of unrest broke out in China's restive Xinjiang on Sept 3, today, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a ...
21 August, 2009 03:09:00
China's latest problem is lead pollution threat to children living in the vicinity of Wugang manganese smelting plant in Hunan province. Officials on Thursday announced ...
18 August, 2009 08:08:00
The bloody riots that erupted in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province, in the first week of July 2009 evidently took the authorities by ...
18 August, 2009 06:22:00
A property bubble in China? It is not a distant reality, according to analysts keeping close tabs on China’s real estate market. The bubble is ...
05 August, 2009 04:24:00
Chinese police are continuing the crackdown at Urumqi though one thousand persons were detained in the immediate wake of ethnic riots last month. The majority ...
10 July, 2009 07:09:00
In the wake of ethnic unrest, Chinese authorities banned Friday prayer gatherings at mosques at Urumqi and other places across the Xinjiang region. Foreign journalists ...
08 July, 2009 12:00:00
One of the world's remotest regions, Xinjiang is China's Central Asian frontier. It is sparsely populated and borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia.The ...
08 July, 2009 03:01:00
Race riots in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province have claimed 160 lives since Saturday forcing President Hu Jintao to return home from the ...
24 June, 2009 09:45:00
China has formally arrested dissident Liu Xiaobo (53)after holding him in detention for six-months at a secret location near Beijing. The Beijing Public Security Bureau ...
03 June, 2009 12:25:00
With the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement on Thursday, Chinese officials have detained a noted dissident and cut off access to Twitter, ...
01 May, 2009 08:26:00
Pakistan has neatly compartmentalised its militants into two categories – useful and disposable to meet the foreign policy prescriptions vis-à -vis China, India and Afghanistan, says the author...
28 April, 2009 06:04:00
There is no let up in the Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners.Scores of its members have been sentenced to long terms in recent weeks. ...
28 April, 2009 10:26:00
On the eve of Prime Minister Taro Aso’s 2-day official visit to Beijing, Japan has criticised China for withholding information about its nuclear weapons and ...
24 January, 2009 02:34:00
Chinese government considers activities by the so called `Dalai Clique’ as the biggest threat to Tibet and to China’s stability and development. While China’s antagonism towards the Dalai Lama is understandable, a breakthrough to the Tibetan imbroglio will not come unless Beijing revisits its policy framework. ...
24 January, 2009 12:51:00
India has banned import of a variety of Chinese toys, which are cheap and therefore very popular among the poor and lower middle classes. The Chiese toys are also sought by the rich because of their novelty valye. The ban apparently aimed at dumping and safeguarding the domestic toy industry will be in force for six months. It may be extended....
