Authorities in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, have arrested 13 people from a family for orchestrating a street Chinese chess ...

There is no reaction from Chinese government or state-run bishops' conference on passing of the... Family of jailed Chinese lawyer condemns secretive trial, threats Lu Siwei handed 11 months in prison ...

Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the country's southwest. The official Xinhua News Agency said there were more than 10 casualties in what it ...

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Jackie Chen was part of group that tried to mediate between protesters and riot police during tense... Top Tibetan Buddhist monk ‘possibly’ killed, says report Circumstances of Humkar Dorje Rinpoche's ...