A high-powered US Senate delegation led by lawmaker Harry Reid met senior Chinese officials in Beijing on Thursday for talks expected to touch on thorny economic issues and human rights.

A city in southwest China has ordered state radio and television to promote the mass study of ‘red songs’, which sing the praises of the ruling Communist Party, according to official press.

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China hit back on Tuesday at US criticism of its handling of unrest at a major Tibetan Buddhist monastery that prompted the Dalai Lama to warn of "catastrophic consequences" if the situation worsened.

At least 17 people were killed and 118 were injured after hailstorms, cloudburst and strong winds ravaged a south China province, officials said Monday.

Gales as strong as 45.5 metres per second, acc

At least 18 people were killed and 155 injured in South China as hailstones, cloudburst and strong wind ravaged the region, the state media said on Monday.

China's Shenzhen has evicted about 80,000 "potentially unstable people" ahead of an international sports competition, an official said.

A man was carried nearly seven metres off the ground while flying a kite at a festival in China's Jiangsu province. He hung on there for several minutes as stunned locals looked on.The incident took p

Do you know the land of the Great Wall is more popular tourist destination than the Alps of Switzerland? The UN has recently ranked China as the world's third most popular tourist destination.

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Chinese telecom equipment supplier ZTE said on Tuesday it was suing a unit of Swedish mobile network giant Ericsson for patent infringement, escalating a legal dispute between the two rivals.

China has asked the 'preacher' US to stop interfering in its internal affairs 'under the pretext' of raising human rights issues, close on the heels of an annual State Department report slamming it