Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador on Wednesday as a diplomatic row flared up after three Chinese patrol boats approached a chain of islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute.

The Japa

China's inflation slowed in June to its lowest rate since January 2010, official data showed on Monday, giving the government more room to move in its efforts to reboot the world's second-biggest econ

China's assisting and arming Pakistan has made 'it a second class enemy', but its economic strength overpowering India is not a real concern, according to Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata.

China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping insisted Saturday that Beijing would never impose its will on the rest of the world and instead wanted to 'abandon the old mindset' and strive for global peace.

Barack Obama on Thursday played the anti-China card beloved of US presidential candidates, covering his flank against the more direct Beijing bashing of his Republican foe Mitt Romney.

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A Chinese provincial government has sacked officials of an orphanage after reports that two mentally challenged children were found shackled there.

Volunteers have rushed to help out at an orphanage

China has lifted a 14-year-old ban on lesbians from donating blood, while still barring gays, thought of as a high-risk group for AIDS transmission, from doing so.

The Whole Blood and Component Donor

China's manufacturing activity fell to a seven-month low in June, official figures showed Sunday, despite government efforts to arrest a slowdown in the world's second largest economy.

The official p

A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rattled China's northwestern Xinjiang region on Saturday, injuring at least 17 people according to state media.

The quake, at a shallow depth of 9.8 kilometres (six

China blocked web searches on Saturday for the name of leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, a day after cutting access to Bloomberg sites following the agency's publication of a report on his family's wealth