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HONG KONG -- As dusk settled over Hong Kong, Regina Ip glanced out of the window of her office in the Legislative Council building. Eight floors below, students chanted slogans [...]

SHANGHAI -- A huge demonstration against a planned waste incinerator in one of eastern China's biggest cities turned violent on Saturday with protesters overturning and setting fire to police cars, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader in exile, on Friday called for an outside inquiry into the self-immolations of more than 130 Tibetans in anti-China demonstrations over the past [...]

BEIJING -- A week of protests against the planned expansion of a petrochemical plant in the port city of Ningbo turned violent on Friday and Saturday when demonstrators attacked police [...]

Residents of a town in southern China said Monday that demonstrators protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant had thrown bricks at police officers who fired volleys of tear [...]

HONG KONG -- Thousands of people took to the streets here on Sunday to protest the introduction of Chinese national education in Hong Kong schools, a day after the city's [...]

BEIJING -- Angry demonstrators entered a government office in the port city of Qidong, near Shanghai, on Saturday and smashed computers and destroyed furniture to protest a waste discharge plant [...]

The body of a prominent human-rights activist was found hanging from a window in a Chinese hospital last week. Chinese authorities say he committed suicide. His family and supporters believe [...]

BEIJING -- Thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of a city in China's northwest Qinghai Province on Saturday after the death of a farmer who set himself on fire [...]

BEIJING -- A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began [...]

Byline: MARK MacKINNON TIBETAN PROTESTS BEIJING -- Dawa Tsering said little before he set himself ablaze before a crowd of onlookers in the Tibetan town of Kardze, high in the [...]

Environmental officials have cleared plans to build a chemical plant outside Zhangzhou, 60 miles southwest of a previously planned site where residents had protested that it would create unsafe levels […]

KATHMANDU -- The power struggle between King Gyanendra of Nepal and the country's political parties will enter a critical phase today with pro-democracy groups claiming they will bring out more [...]

It had all begun so perfectly. Under a clear blue sky, dozens of troops started to mass on the South Lawn of the White House for the ceremonial greeting of [...]

BEIJING -- With the separate trials of an oil investor representative and an employee of the New York Times, Chinese officials have in recent days demonstrated their readiness to use [...]

BEIJING -- The Chinese government says at least three villagers died last week after police fired on protesters in aconfrontation over demands for higher compensation for the loss of land [...]

Hu Jintao, Chinese president, and Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are expected to meet today amid signs of a possible easing of tensions and apparent efforts by Beijing to end [...]

China's two stock exchanges are reporting poor performance and investors are protesting heavy losses. Corruption is rife, companies rely on political connections to become listed and regulators are not able to prevent insider trading or poor disclosure.

Chinese authorities have offered to repair Japan's embassy in Beijing and raised the possibility of compensating restaurants in Shanghai damaged during recent anti-Japanese demonstrations, Tokyo officials said yesterday. The offers [...]

Large political protests in China are a rarity and even planning a march can lead to jail. As a result, the series of anti-Japan demonstrations in China over the past [...]

Chinese authorities are trying to limit popular anti-Japanese demonstrations planned for this weekend, warning activists that unapproved protests are illegal and disrupting their attempts to use the internet to organise. [...]

Thousands of people rioted Sunday in a village in southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving away officers who had tried to stop elderly villagers from protesting against pollution from […]

BRUSSELS -- Textile manufacturers from around the world yesterday called on political leaders to either crack down on cheap textiles imports from China or face 'economical, political and social unrest [...]

HONG KONG -- Tens of thousands of people joined a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong last night to mark the 15th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on student protesters following [...]

Surprisingly few Chinese - except those living in Taiwan, Hong Kong or overseas - have a clear idea of what happened 15 years ago in the streets around Beijing's Tiananmen [...]