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Fifteen Chinese lawyers began a hunger strike on Thursday to protest being blocked from meeting a Christian pastor and several of his aides who were detained in a crackdown highlighting the ruling Communist Party's often prickly attitude toward religious groups.

The audit released Thursday by the Fair Labor Association represents the final assessment in a process that started last year at plants run in China by Apple's largest supplier, Foxconn.

FORGING new contacts, building new relationships and getting a better understanding of doing business in China - all of these were pluses that a leading Basingstoke businessman gleaned from being part of a high-profile trade mission.

The Chinese government on Wednesday unveiled holiday arrangements for 2014 after it sought opinions from the public through polls on major websites.

The board agreed to enter final negotiations on a 3.5 billion euro share issue that would see France and Dongfeng Motor Group take matching 20 percent holdings, the source said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

According to Gawker.com, "He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a lifetime and it was pointless buying any more," an eyewitness was quoted as saying.

A dozen residents of a central Chinese city protested the demolition of their homes by drinking pesticide in Beijing in a desperate bid for attention that underscores the failures of a decades-old petitioning system.

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.