China Restores Text Messaging in Xinjiang

The Chinese government continued to ease a six-month-old communications blackout on the northwest region of Xinjiang.

Chinese Gay Pageant Is Shut Down

The contestants were prepping backstage and the judges were settling in, but the first Mr. Gay China pageant was not meant to be.

Follow the Law, China Tells Internet Companies

The officials’ remarks suggested that China was unlikely to give ground on Google’s demands to ease censorship.

After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly

The difficulty of proving that the Chinese government was behind a cyberattack has frozen the U.S. response.

For Google, a Threat to China With Little Revenue at Stake

Analysts say that staying in China would be risky for Google, and the economic pain of leaving would most likely not be felt for years.

Far-Ranging Support for Google’s China Move

Human rights and business groups are among those cheering the move to stop cooperating with censors.

Google Would Abandon a Lucrative Market

Twenty or so other companies that may also have been attacked, are now in the difficult position of deciding whether to follow Google.

Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China

The move, coming after assaults from hackers on its computer systems, would be a highly unusual rebuke of China by a large and respected company.

Large Oil Spill Reported in China

The spill has heavily polluted a tributary of the Yellow River, and threatens to reach one of the country's longest and most important sources of water.

Hong Kong Protesters Seek Democracy

Thousands of Hong Kong residents marched to the Chinese government’s liaison office demanding that Beijing grant full democracy to the semiautonomous financial hub.

China Finds Huge Fraud by Officials

A report on misused or embezzled government funds showed how widespread corruption has become.

China Starts to Lift Region’s Web Blackout

The Xinjiang regional government said it also planned to restore other Web sites and services, cellphone text messaging and international telephone connections.

Opinion: President Obama, Push Back on China

Wei Jingsheng argues that the sentencing of a moderate reformer presents a chance for the West to stand up to Beijing.

China Executes Briton Despite Appeals

After Akmal Shaikh’s drug smuggling conviction, British officials pressed China to consider his psychiatric history.

In Sentence of Activist, China Gives West a Chill

Human rights advocates said the punishment for Liu Xiaobo was intended to send an unequivocal message to others who might agitate for political reform.

Leading China Dissident Gets 11-Year Term for Subversion

Human rights advocates said the punishment for Liu Xiaobo was intended to send an unequivocal message to others who might agitate for political reform.


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Obama Interviewer in China Is Said to Be Demoted

The top editor of one of China’s most influential newspapers had annoyed Communist Party propaganda officials with an interview of President Obama he carried out a few weeks ago.

See a transcript of the interview here.

China Imposes New Internet Controls

The new measures limit ordinary citizens’ ability to set up personal Web sites and to view hundreds of other sites.

China Is Disputing Status of Uighurs in Cambodia

After deadly ethnic riots in July in western China and a government crackdown, the 22 Uighurs entered Cambodia and applied for refugee status at a United Nations refugee office.

Opinion: Words on Trial in Beijing

Beijing does not engage in arguments; it simply bullies to discourage others. The latest victim is Liu Xiaobo.

Chinese Team Searches Museums for Art Treasures

A delegation scoured the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for objects looted in 1860 from a palace in Beijing.

Nuclear Power Expansion in China Stirs Concerns

China’s aggressive program of building new nuclear plants could cut carbon emissions, but experts worry that the pace may lead to safety shortcuts.

Arms Sales to Taiwan Will Proceed, U.S. Says

The U.S. relationship with Taiwan is one of the most serious diplomatic issues between China and the U.S.

China Indicts Prominent Dissident

Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s best-known dissidents and an author of a pro-democracy manifesto, was indicted Thursday on charges of trying to subvert the state.

Read the Charter 08 here.

Chinese matchmakers send Santarinas to find college girls

Earlier this month, a matchmaking company in China’s Guangdong province had some employees dress as Santarinas — in red Christmas outfits and go-go boots – and march to a college campus. Their mission: to find out “innocent and good-looking” college girls as companions for the company’s clients.