Chinese artist and fierce government critic Ai Weiwei said on Friday his challenge against a $2.4 million fine for alleged tax evasion that he says is politically motivated had failed.

Global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3 percent to 34 billion tonnes in 2011, according to a new EU report, undermining a U.N. goal to limit the rise in global average temperatures to 2C above industrial levels by 2050.

Russian coastguards have seized a Chinese fishing boat off the country's east coast after reportedly opening fire on the vessel, Chinese state media said on Wednesday.

The Global Times daily said the

A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in southwest China on Tuesday, the exiled Tibetan government said, the latest in a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.

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China's economy grew 7.6 per cent in the second quarter of 2012 from a year earlier, its slowest pace in three years, confirming expectations of a downward trajectory that leaves full-year growth on c

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 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.

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.

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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