We have started to collect the most important news related to China in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Thirteen North Korean restaurant workers who defected last week had been working in China and left the country legally, says China.
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China says G7 foreign ministers should stop making "irresponsible remarks" after they released a statement on maritime territorial disputes.
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A US Navy officer is charged with espionage, accused of passing military secrets to China and Taiwan.
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China unveils a strategy to become a "world football superpower" by 2050, with plans to get 50 million children and adults playing the game by 2020.
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An advert looking at the pressures single women in China face to get married has sparked a debate about how unmarried women are treated.
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Emotional advert about China's 'leftover women' goes viral
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Chinese police arrest a man in connection with a high-profile video that appears to show a woman being assaulted in a Beijing hotel.
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A video of an alleged assault at a hotel in China sparks soul searching and prompts millions of posts on social media.
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China's growth is slowing down and worried citizens are sending their money overseas at an unprecedented rate, explains the BBC's Celia Hatton.
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US poet Calvin Trillin says he has been misinterpreted after being accused of racism over a poem about Chinese food published in the New Yorker.
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China's military say a former top official, Gen Guo Boxiong, has confessed to taking "huge bribes" in return for promotions.
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China says it is restricting trade with North Korea, announcing bans on gold and some coal imports and jet fuel exports, in line with UN sanctions.
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Close relatives of seven current or former Chinese leaders have been found to have links to offshore firms in the mass leak of files from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
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A low-budget film depicting a bleak future for Hong Kong under Beijing's control, called Ten Years, wins one of Asia's top film awards.
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China’s housing bubble balancing act
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The Chinese bodies still being found in South Korea
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North Korea reportedly conducts a new missile test only hours after US President Barack Obama says the US and China would work together to stop them.
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McDonald's is to open 1,250 new restaurants in China as part of Asian expansion plans as it focuses on high-growth markets to boost sales.
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The world's two largest carbon emitters have issued a joint statement confirming that both countries will sign the Paris Climate Agreement next month.
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More than 60 years after the end of the Korean war, the remains of 36 Chinese soldiers who fought against South Korea are being returned home.
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A Chinese human rights activist says she has been barred from leaving the country just as she was planning to travel to the US to accept an award.
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Groups of women known for dancing in China's public squares are helping police in the fight against drugs.
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A Chinese human rights activist tells the BBC she has been barred from leaving the country just as she was planning to travel to the US to accept an award.
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A senior journalist at a Chinese newspaper announces on social media that he is resigning due to the authorities' control over the media.
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Samsung officially launches its mobile wallet service in China, as competition in the world's largest smartphone market heats up.
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Italian luxury car maker Maserati is recalling nearly 21,000 cars in China over a design defect that could increase the risk of a collision.
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Chinese flags hoisted in the Czech capital Prague ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping are defaced.
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A Chinese journalist who has reportedly been investigated over an online petition calling for the resignation of President Xi Jinping has been released.
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Why many Christians join unofficial 'home' churches
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Why some in China love the Donald
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A quickly deleted letter online calling for China's president to resign led to the detention of 20 people, the BBC has learned.
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This Easter weekend as many as 100 million Christians will celebrate across China.
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A Hong Kong publisher who went missing for nearly three months is reportedly back in mainland China - a few hours after returning to Hong Kong.
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Thirty-seven people have been arrested in eastern China in connection with a vaccine scandal, report state media.
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Why Chinese web users mocked Mark Zuckerberg
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Chinese citizens react with alarm at news of a massive illegal vaccine operation uncovered in Shandong province, said to involve hundreds of people.
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Prominent Chinese columnist Jia Jia, who went missing last week, has been detained by Beijing police, his lawyer says.
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A Beijing-based columnist who warned a journalist friend about publishing a controversial letter calling for President Xi Jinping's resignation is missing, his lawyer says.
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Chinese Facebook users are criticising Mark Zuckerberg for posting a photo of himself running through Beijing without a face mask.
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Chinese state media has been fascinated by unicorns in recent months - of the tech variety. The BBC's Celia Hatton explains.
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A Chinese official rules out independence for Hong Kong, days after a university newspaper called for it to become a sovereign state in 2047.
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Critics point to what they say is a growing cult of personality surrounding Xi Jinping.
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Argentina's coastguard chases and sinks a Chinese vessel which it says was fishing illegally in Argentine waters.
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Premier Li Keqiang says China's economic growth will stay on track, as the annual parliament ends with the approval of a new five-year plan.
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Chinese delegate to the National People's Congress Jiang Hong tells the BBC he feels there has been an increase in online censorship.
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A glimpse of what's really going on at China's National People's Congress
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The Chinese finishing school teaching etiquette
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China's state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as "China's last leader", an apparent copyediting error.
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China says it will set up its own international maritime "judicial centre" to address territorial disputes, amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Chinese industrial production slows to its weakest growth since the financial crisis, as Britain warns China's slowdown could derail the global recovery.
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei set up a piano in the middle of a refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border.
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Why Chinese officials don't want to be seen in expensive shops
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Two of the booksellers caught up in a criminal investigation in China have returned to the mainland after a brief visit to Hong Kong, says a friend.
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Chinese women are using toilet paper to curl their hair and taking to social media to show off their results.
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Prominent Chinese financial magazine Caixin has highlighted censorship of its content, in a rare defiant move against the government.
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A filmmaker's experience of women's rights in China
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Families of 12 Chinese passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 file lawsuits in a bid to help establish what happened to the plane.
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News that a Chinese woman died after being trapped in a lift for a month after it was turned off prompts shock, anger and questions online.
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China's Communist Party says it punished nearly 300,000 officials last year under its high-profile campaign to tackle corruption.
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China's chief economic planner says the world's second largest economy will "absolutely not experience a hard landing" despite cuts to growth forecasts.
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A woman's body is found inside a lift in China a month after it was improperly switched off, a regional government statement says.
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Why men are paying more to get married in modern China
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China's National People's Congress sets the country's growth target for 2016 in a range of 6.5%-7%, signalling that the economy will slow further.
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Or is China on the path to global domination?
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New China law bans domestic violence against women
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John Sudworth visits China's Dandong customs zone which handles much of N Korea's trade, ahead of a UN vote on tougher sanctions against N Korea.
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US ratings agency Moody's cuts its outlook for China from "stable" to "negative".
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A campaign group hopes its bizarre video of "hairy nose" will encourage Chinese people to tackle pollution "before it changes you".
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Four of the five missing Hong Kong booksellers appear on Chinese TV, saying they have been detained for "illegal book trading" in the mainland.
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China shuts down the microblog accounts of outspoken former property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang after he criticised President Xi Jinping.
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The US says a purported confession from a prominent Chinese lawyer on state television runs counter to the rule of law.
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China's high-speed sexual revolution
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A Christian pastor in China who refused to remove a cross from his church's roof has been jailed for 14 years for corruption and incitement, reports say.
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Data about millions of Chinese people is being leaked by apps that use code written by the net giant Baidu, say researchers.
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The US, supported by China, submits a draft resolution to the UN Security Council aimed at imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea.
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Beijing has overtaken New York as the city with the highest number of billionaires for the first time, a report says.
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The Chinese capital overtakes New York as the city with the highest number of billionaires for the first time, according to a new report by China-based firm Hurun.
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Hong Kong officials get more than 10,000 complaints in three days after a TV programme began subtitling output in the Chinese characters associated with mainland China.
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How a story of young love gripped China
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A guide dog, whose apparent abduction sparked an outcry in China, is returned to its handler with an apology note, state media report.
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The US and China say they have made progress on a draft UN resolution to harden sanctions on North Korea, after its rocket launch and nuclear test.
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An editor's stirring ode to China's leader
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Why does China have women-only mosques?
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Shares in HSBC fell nearly 3% following a surprise fourth quarter loss and predictions of a "bumpier" road ahead because of China's slowing economy.
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China replaces the head of its securities regulator as it tries to tackle major volatility in its stock markets.
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China accuses the US of militarising the disputed South China Sea, days after Beijing is accused of placing missiles on a contested island.
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US online car-hire service Uber is losing more than $1bn a year in China, as it struggles against "fierce" local competition, its CEO says.
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Three Chinese students in the US are jailed for kidnap and assault in a case that sparked discussion in China about "parachute kids".
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How Chinese-Indians paid the price for 1962 war
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US Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington is seriously concerned about increased Chinese militarisation of the contested South China Sea.
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Taiwan says China has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea, but Beijing says it is an invention of the media.
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How the world's biggest property developer sees the market
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China is preparing to relocate nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope.
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Two ethnic Uighur Chinese plead as they make their first court appearance over the bombing of the Erawan shrine in Bangkok.
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Chinese government issues guidelines to help protect 61 million children in rural areas whose parents have moved to cities to work.
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A five-storey slide recently unveiled inside a Shanghai mall sparks fear, awe and satire on Chinese social media.
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Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan accuses "speculative forces" of targeting the country's currency, the yuan.
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China's foreign minister says a planned US missile defence system to protect South Korea from the North could also be used to target China.
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The UK says a British bookseller who disappeared in Hong Kong was likely "involuntarily removed" to China, calling it a "serious breach" of protocol.
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Is kowtowing to parents going too far?
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