Forty-eight-year-old Yuan Lihai is the owner of an unregistered orphanage that caught fire last Friday. She had been taking abandoned children into he...
The laojiao system allows police to detain people for up to four years without an open trial. Leading experts have argued this contradicts Chinese law...
This past year has seen a number of territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, involving China, Japan, South Korea and countries in Southeast As...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes that President Assad's latest proposal won't help resolve the crisis in the country. Martin Nesirky is the U...
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party and its former main ally, the Northern League, have resumed their alliance. Berlusconi will no...
China's Health Minister Chen Zhu has set out a goal to reimburse 70 percent of the patients' medical costs by 2015. In order to achieve this goal, we ...
A leading Chinese financial data provider says that IPOs on China's A-share market lost its momentum in 2012, with fewer newly listed companies and re...
The Chinese government will this year push through the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal wo...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has put forward his own roadmap for a political solution to the country's 22-month old crisis. In his first televised...
A rebel delegation of Central African Republic is heading for the Gabonese capital Libreville for talks over the country's political crisis. The 12-me...
