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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.

China's Chang'e 3 moon mission, the country's first flight to land a rover on the moon, is depicted in this graphic released by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

China's exports outperformed market expectations in November due to improved data in the United States and the European Union.

McLaren Automotive Ltd., maker of the million-dollar P1 supercar, said it has yet to see signs of a recovery in demand in China since the ruling Communist Party began cracking down on conspicuous extravagance late last year.

Dr. Ashni Singh, Minister of Finance and Zhang Limin, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Guyana signed an Agreement on Economic and Technical Co-operation yesterday whereby, the Government of the People's Republic of China will provide RMBA 30,000,000 to finance projects to be agreed upon by both Governments, a release from the ... (more)

Chinese authorities have issued an orange alert as smog choked central and eastern China causing an increase in the number of people seeking treatment in hospitals for respiratory problems.