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A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said today. It would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year. The woman died yesterdat. Her age...

A Chinese anti-piracy naval fleet began a three-month mission in the Gulf of Aden Tuesday to protect shipping from Somali pirates, officials said. China's Ministry of Transport has started accepting escort requests from Chinese vessels for protection by two missile...

China says its "blacklist" of Internet Web sites is part of a crackdown on Internet pornography, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Beijing said the sites, which include the Google and Baidu search engines, provided access to Web surfers looking...

BusinessWeek is the latest to kick China's leading search engine when it's down. The magazine claims that Baidu is dropping from its search listings websites that don't pay up for sponsored search spots on Baidu.com. The story leans on two...

Taipei, Jan. 6 (CNA) A noted U.S. scholar said Tuesday that after the Obama administration is sworn in, the United States will promote positive-sum relations among the U.S., China and Taiwan, and encourage further improvement in cross-Taiwan Strait relations, while...

SHANGHAI: A four-year-old girl's dismembered body has been found in a fridge in southern China, leading to the arrest of a man who allegedly once said human flesh was "delicious", state media reported. The migrant worker, who is believed to...

A Hong Kong man is trying to sue a public hospital and the Hong Kong government over the death of his father last month. The victim collapsed right outside the hospital but it took staff almost half an hour to...

Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Wang Chen has underscored that the country's current objective for overseas publicity will focus on building a friendly environment for international communication.     Wang, director of the International Communication Office of the CPC Central...