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Lying in a Beijing military hospital in 1990, General Wang Zhen told a visitor he felt betrayed. Decades after he risked his life fighting f...

This week’s Bloomberg News expose on the so-called Eight Immortals is a case in point. Building on a June article tracing the accumulated we...

Real estate agents in provinces such as Guangdong and Jiangsu have been frantically trying to push deals for a torrent of second-hand flats ...

Three quarters of a century after Japanese soldiers butchered her family and left her for dead, Xia Shuqin says she relives her terror with ...

Microsoft said Windows Live Messenger (WLM) would be turned off by March 2013 worldwide, with the exception of China.

Cruising around Beijing in a silver Jaguar with "007" in the license plate, Neil Heywood seemed to relish the air of intrigue that...

WeChat, a mobile messaging application created by Tencent Holdings, China’s largest Internet company, is aggressively trying to buck the tre...

model that delivered three decades of double-digit growth is running out of steam and the country’s next leaders face tough choices to keep ...

Former Chinese ambassador to Japan says Washington should distance itself from Tokyo

Leader-in-waiting had setbacks in early years in Fujian, but learned fast. In the second of a three-part series, we look at his 17 years in ...

Why did the well-connected son of a revolutionary leader swap a job in the capital for life as a party cadre in on obscure rural community?

Article says party could learn much from island's brand of authoritarianism

The 25-year-olds were pulled half-naked from car smash in March

A former Japanese diplomat has accused the United States of manipulating Japan since the Second World War in order to “eliminate” prime mini...

Crikey - aided by the telly, fashion and the internet, a flood of Britishisms makes itself heard in the home of the Americanism

Ignoring the need for social reform while modernising the military risks repeating the mistakes of the Qing dynasty

Holiday chaos leads to appeals for changes to the arrangements for allocating paid leave

With seven of 10 PLA officers on the Central Military Commission too old to go on, big changes are certain after the party congress

Back in the days before e-mail, Victor Li, the heir to Asia's largest family fortune, used to sleep with a fax machine by his bed, rea...