AP Comparative Government China Blog 2

With China’s appetite for natural resources and foodstuffs ever growing, regional trading partners Australia and New Zealand are attracting ...

Jacques Rogge told a meeting of national Olympic committees in Beijing that the Games would succeed. But Mr Rogge urged China to respect its...

China says it has no plans to stop putting criminals to death. The Chinese position came in response to an Amnesty International report that...

China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says. The research s...

China has accumulated a stake of just less than 1 percent in BP, the British oil company, the company confirmed Tuesday, a move that raises ...

Amnesty said the hidden extent of executions in China, where figures are secret, might mean the Olympic host was behind the bulk of them wor...

The US president, George W Bush, has told his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao the Pentagon made a "mistake" sending Taiwan four nuc...

China is ready to join the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline if India drops out of the $7.4 billion project, Dawn newspaper reported Tuesday quoti...

China sent another 22 divers to the South China Sea on Tuesday to try and locate the 18 sailors missing after their Ukrainian ship sank Sat...

Soldiers clutching assault rifles stand guard on approach roads. Official checkpoints have sprung up all around. After several days of prote...

BEIJING–In the darkest of ironies, as the Olympic torch was lit in Athens yesterday, a court in China sentenced a man to five years in priso...

China has condemned a protest over Tibet at the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday. In the first reaction from Beijing, a C...

IT MAY seem an odd time for China's risk-averse officials to be talking about political change. Yet at the opening of the country's ...

China is facing a very severe unemployment problem, says Labour Minister Tian Chengping. He said 20 million new workers entered the labour m...

China has worked hard over the past few months to show it is doing all it can to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur regio...

The authorities in China say they have foiled two plots - one to crash an airliner, and another targeting the Beijing Olympic Games. Officia...

One of the world's top long distance runners has said he will not compete in the marathon at the Beijing Olympics because China's ai...

BEIJING (AP) — China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least a decade for fear that a population surge could spark soc...

The dramatic news came in the midst of China's staid and boring annual legislature: a terrorist hijacking plot, perhaps meant to mar the...

Family planning chief Zhang Weiqing said there would be no change in the rule limiting families in cities to one child and those in rural ar...

STARTLING economic growth in China has not been matched by similar improvements in health care. The cost of treatment is becoming ever more ...

First they said they might do it, then they said they wouldn't. Now it seems more of a definite maybe. At issue is the sensitive questi...

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the nation's largest lender, said Tuesday it completed the acquisition of a 20 perc...