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Former China's Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang reacts as he attends the Hebei delegation discussion sessions at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing on Oct 16, 2007.

South Africa's ambassador to China has - according to state media - compared Nelson Mandela to Mao Zedong, the Communist leader whose rule saw tens of millions killed by famine and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

Fifteen people have been killed and five others injured in a fire early Wednesday at a market in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the local fire department said.

China has made another step towards completing its South-North Water Diversion Project, which aims to pump almost 45 billion cubic meters of water every year from the Yangtze River basin to the country's parched north.

Hong Kong shares fell early on Tuesday as investors marked time ahead of more Chinese data and Beijing kicked off an annual economic work conference where targets will be set for 2014.

Activist Liu Shi, left, stages a protest after a proposal to ban HIV/AIDS sufferers from entering bathhouses.

Commentaries by two of China's most influential news outlets suggesting that an ongoing air pollution crisis was not without a silver lining drew a withering reaction on Tuesday from internet users and other media.

Within one hour following the warning issued by the People's Bank of China , one Bitcoin price plunged by as much as 35 percent from 6,970 yuan to about 4,500 yuan at BTC China, the main Bitcoin trading platform in China.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio at the launching ceremony of Qingdao Oriental Movie "Metropolis" in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - A senior Palestinian official on Monday railed against U.S. attempts to broker a broad outline of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, saying Secretary of State John Kerry is breaking a promise to try to negotiate a final agreement in the current round of talks.

Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Mideast for more peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and then will travel on to Vietnam and the Philippines.

Chinese state-run media on Monday played down South Korea's expansion of its air defence identification zone, weeks after Beijing provoked regional fury by establishing its own.

A satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil failed to enter orbit after the rocket carrying it malfunctioned after launch on Monday, state media reported.

A 70-year-old Japanese local politician has been formally arrested in southern China on charges of transporting illegal drugs, Chinese prosecutors said Monday.

Chinese authorities have been withholding residence visas for reporters working for The New York Times and Bloomberg in apparent retaliation for the agencies' investigative stories on wealth accumulated by leaders' families.

Cracked earth marks a dried-up area near a wind turbine used to generate electricity at a wind farm in Guazhou, 950km north-west of Lanzhou, Gansu Province on Sept 15, 2013.

The 120-strong business delegation read like a Who's Who of British business Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, BP, Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline and Virgin.

China's most developed regions were attacked by smog over the weekend. A total of 104 cities in 20 provinces in and near China's two largest industrial clusters - the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangtze River Delta region - fell victim to heavy smog that reduced visibility to less than 10 meters in some places, according to the ... (more)

China on Sunday announced a ban on the serving of shark fin and bird's nest soup at official banquets, as part of a sweeping government crackdown on corruption and excessive spending.

A Palestinian child holds a lit candle as he prays in front of a poster of late South African leader Nelson Mandela, during a special service in his honor at the Holy Family Church, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013.