China news

Chinese developers are planning to flatten 700 mountains to make way for a new town in the north-west of the country.

This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been criticized for his membership in China's Communist Party and reluctance to speak out against the country's government, has defended censorship as something as necessary as airport security checks.

China has warned India to stop oil exploration in the South China Sea after New Delhi's Navy chief said he was prepared to send ships there to protect its interests.

The wife of China's Nobel Peace prize-winner Liu Xiaobo has spoken out from under house arrest for the first time in more than two years.

A Chinese police chief who kept two sisters as his mistresses has become the fifth government official in six days to be embroiled in a sex scandal.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's film Never Sorry is shortlisted for Best Documentary in the battle for a 2013 Oscar.

A promise by China's new leaders to tackle corruption has claimed its first major scalp: the deputy Communist party chief of Sichuan.

The world's tallest woman has died at the age of 40 in her village in China.

China's new leaders have promised a dramatic overhaul of how the Communist party behaves, responding to growing public criticism of imperious and lavishly rich officials.

A group of 134 Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama and author Toni Morrison, have called for Chinese president-in-waiting Xi Jinping to release detained Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and his wife.

Edinburgh Zoo is celebrating the first anniversary of the arrival of Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the two Giant pandas that have been drawing the crowds all year.

Two Chinese nationals arrested in France after customs officers found 1.8 million euros (£1.5 million) in cash hidden in their car said they were headed to Austria for a holiday, officials said on Monday.

For 6,000 Chinese pensioners it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: a visit to Beijing to proudly sing before the country's top leaders.

David Cameron banned all contact with the Dalai Lama during crunch talks with Chinese Government over Euro bailout package earlier this year, leaked documents show.

Australia's iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge are set to be joined by a new landmark after a council approved a £330 million, 15-hectare Chinese-themed amusement park.

David Cameron banned all contact with the Dalai Lama during crunch talks with Chinese Government over Euro bailout package earlier this year, leaked documents show.

China's gauge of manufacturing industry jumped to a seven-month high last month in the latest sign that Asia's powerhouse is springing back to life.

A five-floor home surrounded on all sides by a Chinese highway has finally been demolished, while its owner has disappeared.

Chinese authorities demolish a five-storey home that stood in the middle of a new main road and had become a symbol of resistance.

China plans to keep ships stationed in the disputed Scarborough Shoal area of the South China Sea.