BEIJING -- Police in a heavily Tibetan region of far west China are offering tipsters a reward of $7,700 for information about planned self-immolation...
BEIJING -- Residents of a south China town protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant threw bricks at police who fired volleys of tear gas an...
BEIJING — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta met Wednesday with Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, who just days ago reappeared after a puzz...
TOKYO -- Scores of Japanese-owned factories and stores in China were shuttered Tuesday as anti-Japan demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities. At s...
As widespread and sometimes violent anti-Japan demonstrations erupted in China on Saturday and Sunday, photos of the protests caused a stir on the Chi...
BEIJING — Protesters in China have begun another day of demonstrations against Japan, after protests over disputed islands spread across numerou...
Two decades ago, the Chinese government's crackdown in Tiananmen Square left hundreds of my fellow students dead. Since then a new generation has grown up in China, and many of them are kept in the dark about what happened on this day in China's history.
BEIJING — Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day...
BEIJING -- Southern Chinese authorities have given in to key demands of protesting villagers after a nearly two-week standoff with police, agreeing in...
BEIJING -- Thousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coa...
BEIJING — China's government is trying to defuse a revolt in a small fishing village, offering to investigate the land seizures that touched off...
BEIJING -- A police officer was suspected of driving a police van drunk and killing five people in a central China crash that sparked angry crowds to ...
When local authorities fanned out this week into villages and factory towns around Guangzhou, they were not hunting criminals or political agitators. ...
BEIJING — Security forces patrolled the streets and manned roadblocks Tuesday in a southern Chinese city where rioting factory workers attacked ...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Strolling past hip cafes, the young Chinese man in a white sports jacket and faded jeans looks like any other university student...
In spite of China's image as a high-functioning economy, many of the social causes of mass discontent that exploded in the Arab world -- endemic corruption, income inequality, labor unrest, inflation, pollution -- continue to plague the nation.
BEIJING — A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was...
Wang Cuyun, a grandmother in Hubei, China, was beaten and buried alive by property developers after trying to protect her home, according to reports. ...
UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...
URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...
MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...
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The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fair...
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Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...
