China will seek binding pollution targets for developed countries and reject similar requirements for itself at an international climate summit next month, China’s top climate envoy said Wednesday.

Global warming cannot be reversed unless the United States and China commit to meaningful cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions, the EU said Tuesday.

The pre-dawn blast Saturday at the state-run Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province near the border with Russia was the latest to hit China’s mining industry - the world’s most dangerous. Authorities say safety is improving, but hundreds still die in major accidents each year.

A Chinese gold mining company is being investigated for causing serious damage to one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China.

Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, the official China News Service reported Monday.

China said it expressed grave concern to India about a visit by the Dalai Lama to a state in the country’s northeast at the heart of a long-running border dispute, saying it showed an anti-China bias.

Apple’s iPhone made its long-awaited formal debut in the world’s most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models.

A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern Friday over China’s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions.

Here’s a thought experiment: Find an empty room and go sit in it for an hour. While doing so, try to imagine not coming out for the next 10 years—while your children grow, your friends age, and the world moves on. Now imagine being locked up for 10 years for no greater crime than supporting democracy. To Americans, the idea seems nearly inconceivable. But that is the fate of Guo Quan, a former professor and judge in China who has been sentenced to hard time because he founded a political party and challenged the authority of the Communist Party’s regnant goons. Guo was convicted of “subversion of state power” simply because he advocated letting his fellow citizens have a say in who will rule them.

Top U.S. safety officials are meeting with their Chinese counterparts to seek help for American homeowners complaining of damage from suspect drywall imported from China.

A senior North Korean diplomat stopped in Beijing Tuesday en route to the United States for a rare visit aimed at laying the groundwork for direct negotiations with Washington, news reports said.

Somali pirates seized a Chinese cargo ship Monday with 25 people onboard, a naval spokesman for the European Union’s anti-piracy force said, in the first successful attack on a Chinese vessel since the country deployed three naval warships to the region.

A hot air balloon crashed Wednesday in a southern Chinese resort town with dramatic limestone formations, killing four Dutch tourists, state media said.

Tibet received a record 4.75 million tourists in the first nine months of this year, state media reported Wednesday, marking a rebound from ethnic rioting and security clampdowns last year that shut the Himalayan region to travelers.

Nearly 1,000 children in a central Chinese province have tested positive for excessive lead in their blood, state media reported Tuesday, the latest of several lead poisoning cases involving thousands of children across the country.