China's president Hu Jintao on Thursday warned the Communist Party faces 'collapse' if it fails to clean up corruption and called for an economic revamp as he opened a congress to inaugurate a new sla

Six Tibetans, including three teenage monks, set themselves ablaze in different parts of Tibet in the past 24 hours, the Tibetan government-in-exile said on Thursday.

In a statement here, Central Tib

China will fingerprint all its 1.3 billion people, said authorities.

Chinese police have moved a step closer to launching a system to register citizens' fingerprints in 2013, reported People's Daily.

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the ruling Communist party, state media said Sunday, clearing the way for him to face criminal trial.

The decision, made at a meeting of

Two Tibetan cousins set fire to themselves in their village to protest Chinese rule, bringing the total number of self-immolations this week to seven, the highest since the protests began last year, a

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the country's parliament and stripped of his legal immunity, clearing the way for his prosecution, state media said on Friday.

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A US-based rights group says a 24-year-old Tibetan farmer has become the fourth man in a far
western Chinese county to set himself on fire this week in protest against Chinese rule.

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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is the latest to go 'Gangnam Style' — but in a trademark act of irreverence, he's thrown in a pair of handcuffs and a poke at Chinese censors.

In a video posted on

Beijing urged the US presidential candidates on Tuesday to refrain from inflaming tensions with China after President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney vowed to get tough with the Asian giant.

It was on 50 years ago this day that China surprised India by unleashing its Peoples Liberation Army on Ladakh and the then North East Frontier Agency (now Arunachal Pradesh).

Many in India would li