Hong Kong marks 15 years since the return to Chinese rule, but not everyone is celebrating. CNN's Andrew Stevens reports
China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday, completing an ambitious mission that notched up a series of breakthroughs for the country, including putting its first woman in orbit.
China's Shenzhou-9 crew members emerge from a capsule after completing a mission to space.
From earthly orbit to the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean, China has notched up two more firsts for the country's ambitious sea and space exploration programs.
China's former railway minister has become the latest senior figure to be expelled from the Communist Party after being found guilty of corruption.
A report released by the Chinese government blames mismanagement and equipment flaws for a recent bullet train crash.
They are two men, separated by a gulf of power and privilege. One was born of the Chinese Communist Party, the son of a revolutionary hero and seemingly destined to shape China's destiny; the other has lived in the shadow of the state, poor, persecuted and blind.
An activist escapes, while dissidents are in hiding. CNN's Stan Grant looks at China's most tumultuous period in decades.
The latest rumors filling a void of official information over the mysterious death of a British businessman and the fall of one of China's rising political stars are worthy of a Hollywood thriller, amid rumors of poison and political skullduggery.
Bo Xilai, once seen as one of the rising stars of Chinese politics, has been removed from his prominent provincial post after a scandal involving one of his key deputies.
As North Korea mourns the death of its "Dear Leader," CNN's Anna Coren looks at how the state controls its people.
Liang Wengen, China's richest man, received the green light to become a candidate for the Communist Party of China's Central Committee. If elected, Liang will be the first private entrepreneur to join the ruling party's policymaking body.
The death toll from a powerful weekend earthquake that rocked parts of India, China and Nepal climbed to 81 Tuesday, emergency officials said.
A magnitude 6.9 struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim, killing more than 20 people. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
A tour bus plunged from a collapsed bridge Thursday in China, leaving one person dead and 22 injured, the official news agency Xinhua reported, citing local authorities.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on how the Communist Party of China has promoted "red" culture ahead of its 90th birthday.
As the Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrates the 90th anniversary of its founding, party officials are pledging to continue the fight against corruption.
The former head of China's nuclear agency has been expelled from the Communist Party, more than a year after he was ensnared in a corruption probe, the state-run news agency reported.
Local authorities said Tuesday that a "mud-rock flow" killed six people and left 18 missing in a village in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.
The Communist Party of China turned 89 on July 1 with self-congratulations. Speaking at a gathering celebrating the founding of the CPC, Chinese president and Communist party chief Hu Jintao said, "Practice in the past 89 years proved that the CPC has met the expectations of the people." The party, which now boasts of over 78 million members, remains the sole ruling party in the People's Republic, governing the lives of 1.3 billion people.
A landslide in China's southwestern Guizhou province has left 13 people dead, with 86 people still missing under rubble, Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news agency, reported on Thursday.
Until recently, he had rarely appeared in public. But now, he has been named to China's top advisory body.
It is the start of perhaps the most salacious chapter in China's most sweeping crackdown on corruption in recent history. The trial of the most senior official implicated in an intricate web of mafia-style gangs that terrorized the central city of Chongqing has begun.
China will ramp up the monitoring of high-level public officials' family members to keep them from hiding profits from corruption, state media reported Thursday.
Some 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will find themselves lacking wives in 2020, partly because of the country's one-child policy, which has led to the abortion of female fetuses, state media said Monday.
When we requested an interview with members of the Communist Youth League, I expected an army of suits with well-rehearsed answers. Instead, we met three students casually dressed in jeans, just 18 to 23 years old.
China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city of Urumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series of syringe stabbings, state-run media reported.
More than 200 people charged in connection with last month's deadly riots in the western Chinese city of Urumqi could be tried this week, according to reports from the state-run China Daily.
On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since I have seen Beijing, the city in which I spent much of my youth and attended university. It will have been 20 years since I saw my parents. My parents are older. I hear their health is not what it was, but it is something they take pains not to trouble me with. I hear Beijing is much changed. I hear China is much changed.
A monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a human rights group reported.
A Chinese official met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang on Friday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
British Paralympic athletes hope to take home at least 95 medals in Beijing. ITN's Ian Payne reports.
Time.com: Where China Goes Nextupdated: Mon Aug 25 2008 19:00:00
Analysis: As the Olympic afterglow fades, Chinese leaders will have to grapple with pressure for more freedoms
How a Hong Kong philosophy student became the city's anti-Olympic poster child
Chinese authorities say the attack was a plot by two fanatics. But unhappiness with Beijing is never far below the surface
China's Communist Party boss in Tibet delivered a fresh attack on the Dalai Lama Wednesday, even as envoys of the region's exiled leader met for a second day
China will maintain its one-child policy for at least another decade, the country's family planning minister said in an interview published Monday.
Chinese officials told the state-run media Sunday that they successfully thwarted two terrorist attacks, including one targeting the Summer Olympic Games.
China says it has thwarted two terrorist attacks -- one targeting the Summer Olympic Games. CNN's John Vause reports.
Monday brought welcome relief to millions of Chinese migrant workers desperate to see their families, as the nation's transportation system seemed to be getting back on its feet after being paralyzed by a historic winter storm.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from the Guangzhou, China, train station where police and military have restored order.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports from Guangzhou, China where holiday travel has come to a standstill due to snow.
With a year to go before the 2008 Olympics get under way, questions linger over China's efforts to improve its human rights record.
Chinese President Hu Jintao moved shrewdly to strengthen his position at the Party Congress. But that won't necessarily make implementing his policies any easier
China shakeup
updated: Mon Oct 22 2007 01:33:00
CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva speaks with professor Peter Kwong about the outcome of the Chinese Communist Congress.
The Chinese Communist Party Congress wraps up in Beijing, China. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports
A Chinese Cabinet minister sought Wednesday to portray a mining accident that left 181 miners trapped and presumed dead as a natural disaster, deflecting criticism that more could have been done to save the workers.
The wave of Internet-fueled criticism over atrocious labor practices could mark a milestone how grassroots protests affect the country's leaders
China has arrested outspoken human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng on charges of inciting subversion, his lawyer said on Thursday, extending a government campaign to curb activists challenging its authority.
For the fourth time since he became president in 2001, George Bush has sent his Treasury secretary to Capitol Hill, hat in hand, to ask for an increase in the federal debt ceiling (currently $8.18 trillion).
There's the slightest insinuation of warmth in the New York air; the whisper of a promise of crocuses; the unmistakable sound of the crack of the bat.
China is changing rapidly -- and nowhere faster than in the skyline of Shanghai.
An intriguing calm has settled on the Taiwan Strait as the Chinese Communist Party administration focuses on united-front tactics to woo non-separatist elements in the "breakaway province" of Taiwan.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a gathering of Chinese community and human rights groups Saturday to honor the late Zhao Ziyang, former premier of China.
You can buy anything in modern Shanghai. Well, almost anything.
Beijing has warned against "anti-government forces" taking advantage of the death of former party chief Zhao Ziyang to stir up trouble for the administration.
Former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who was ousted amid the upheaval surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, has died at the age of 85, the state news agency Xinhua has announced.
Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests, is in a coma in hospital after multiple strokes, sources close to the family said.
Beijing is expected to come up with tougher ways to ensure control over Hong Kong despite the fact that democratic politicians got nowhere near half the seats in the 60-member Legislative Council (LegCo) in Sunday's hotly contested polls.
What is it about Tiananmen Square?
The sword is out of its scabbard. Premier Wen Jiabao's revelation last week that Beijing is considering a National Reunification Law shows the Chinese leadership has entered a new and possibly violent phase in its decades-long struggle against Taiwanese independence.
China's state security is on high alert to prevent any disturbances that may follow the possible death of former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang.
The 15-month-old administration of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao is staking its reputation on the success of a brand-new "concept of scientific development."
Much of China's weighty agrarian problem is summed up by a figure recently revealed by Premier Wen Jiabao: the country's grain production is short by 68.7 billion jin (34.4 billion kilo) a year.
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