Mumbai trader Shyamsunder Agrawal is now trapped all alone in China, left to fight it out against powers far bigger than him.

Mr Agrawal was taken hostage along with Hyderabad resident Deepak Rahej

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of ousted politician Bo Xilai, to death with a two-year reprieve for murdering a British businessman, witnesses to the closed-door hearing said, in

Japanese nationalists landed on an island at the heart of a corrosive territorial row with China on Sunday in a move likely to further inflame tensions with Beijing.

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China's currency is facing strong downward pressure in 2012 as the country's once surging growth rates slow amid a stalling global economy and signs of capital flight after years of inflows.

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Protests against Japan broke out in more than a dozen Chinese cities including Beijing on Sunday, as authorities allowed thousands of people to vent their anger over an escalating territorial row.

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Hundreds of Tibetans demonstrated in northwest China after police beat four people, an exile group and a US broadcaster said, following a recent string of self-immolations in the region.

The UK-base

Two ethnic Tibetan men set themselves on fire together in southwest China to protest Beijing's rule, causing clashes between residents and security forces, rights groups said on Tuesday.

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On any other day and in any other situation, the Tibetan exiles who gathered excitedly in groups next to Buckingham Palace would never have come to cheer for an athlete wearing the colors of China, a country they regard as their oppressor, a country that invaded and has governed their Himalayan homeland with an iron fist for six decades.

A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake rattled western China on Sunday on the border between Xinjiang and Tibet, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake's epicentre, at a shallow depth of nine kilometre

A dam collapsed in an eastern Chinese city following heavy rains on Friday, flooding the nearby areas and killing 10 people.

Dikes of Shenjiakeng Reservoir, a rainwater pooling dam in eastern Zhejian