December 27, 2012
BEIJING--China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses.
December 27, 2012
BEIJING--A Chinese satellite navigation network created to eventually compete with America's Global Positioning System has started offering services to Asian users outside the country.
December 27, 2012
BEIJING--Chinese authorities have confiscated televisions from 300 monasteries in a heavily Tibetan part of the west of the country and dismantled satellite equipment that broadcast "anti-China" programs, prompted by Tibetan self-immolations in the region.
December 26, 2012
BEIJING--Japan's new ambassador to China, Masato Kitera, took up his post in Beijing on Dec. 25 to begin the delicate task of improving bilateral relations, which many say are in their worst state since normalization of ties 40 years ago.
December 26, 2012
BEIJING--More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms including separating the party from government, though they avoid any mention of ending one-party rule.
December 26, 2012
BEIJING--China on Dec. 26 opened the world's longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China.
December 26, 2012
BEIJING--Jaguar Land Rover's Chinese subsidiary will recall 337 cars because of substandard fixings in their brakes and steering boxes, China's national product quality watchdog said on Dec. 25.
December 25, 2012
BEIJING--China may require internet users to register with their real names when signing up to network providers, state media said on Dec. 25, extending a policy already in force with microblogs in a bid to curb what officials call rumors and vulgarity.
December 25, 2012
BEIJING--British musician Elton John dedicated a recent concert here to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, drawing gasps from many in the audience and a sharp reaction from the authorities.
December 25, 2012
XINYANG, China—Beijing is cracking down on a religious group that showed considerable reach and organizational ability during a recent campaign to warn Chinese about the end of the world.
December 25, 2012
SUAO, Taiwan--Perched on a narrow promontory jutting off Taiwan's heavily industrialized northeastern coast, the Suao naval base is only 220 kilometers (140 miles) from a rocky group of islets at the center of a bitter territorial dispute between Japan and China.
December 24, 2012
BEIJING--State news outlets in China cautiously welcome the imminent change of government in Japan that will be headed by Shinzo Abe, but remain wary about the conservative leader's past hard-line stance on issues.
December 24, 2012
MOTOBU, Okinawa Prefecture--When 42-year-old Naoharu Chibana wanted to propose to his Chinese girlfriend, he had only one worry.
December 24, 2012
BEIJING--Conflict between China and the United States is inevitable, says Yan Xuetong, dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University in China.
December 24, 2012
BEIJING--Chinese officials will this week discuss improving compensation for expropriating farmland, state media said on Dec. 24, in a move to help deal with growing rural anger about forced land seizures.
December 23, 2012
A Chinese aircraft approached the disputed Senkaku Islands on Dec. 22, prompting Self-Defense Force fighter jets to be scrambled, days after China’s first intrusion into Japanese airspace around the islands.
December 23, 2012
BEIJING/ ZHENGZHOU, China--China will open the world's longest high-speed rail line on Dec. 26 when a link between Beijing and the southern metropolis of Guangzhou is inaugurated, officials said on Dec. 22, underscoring its commitment to a trouble-plagued transport scheme.
December 22, 2012
SHANGHAI--As the end of middle school approached this year, Zhan Haite, 15, faced two choices: attend vocational school in Shanghai in the fall or move to her ancestral home in distant Jiangxi province to take the high school entrance exam and study there.
December 22, 2012
BEIJING--China has banned senior military officers from holding alcohol-fuelled banquets or from staying in luxury hotels when on work trips in the latest move by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping to fight corruption, state media reported on Dec. 22.
December 22, 2012
BEIJING--Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was crackling with quotes of “V for Vendetta's” famous line: “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”