We have started to collect the most important news related to China in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
South Korea says it plans more military drills with the United States, despite China's disapproval and tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme.
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Senior Chinese officials have expressed frustration with their "spoiled child" ally North Korea, according to leaked classified US diplomatic cables.
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Major shares indexes fall across Asia as a funding squeeze hits China's financial system and there are fears of further rate rises.
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How one place's transformation reflects huge changes in China
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China calls for emergency talks over North Korea's deadly shelling of a Southern island, as the South and US forces hold joint military exercises.
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China holds talks with the US, Seoul and Pyongyang in an attempt to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, China's Foreign Ministry says.
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Bangladesh has won its first-ever gold medal in the Asian games, with its cricket team defeating Afghanistan in the Twenty20 competition in China.
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Nine people are arrested after robbing ancestral tombs of China's first emperor Qin Shinhuang, Chinese officials say.
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India's foreign minister is to open one of two new consulates in Sri Lanka in what is seen as an attempt to check growing Chinese influence.
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The cricket teams of Afghanistan and Bangladesh both cause upsets in the semi-finals of the Twenty20 tournament at the Asian Games in China.
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The US urges Beijing to rein in North Korea, whose shelling of a South Korean island has caused outrage around the world.
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The Vatican threatens a bishop with excommunication after he is ordained by China's state-backed Church without papal approval.
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China begins exporting rare earths to Japan after a two-month suspension following a territorial row.
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On the banks of China's Yellow River, at least one boatman collects bodies from the water and sells them to the families of the dead
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A Chinese father who was jailed for campaigning over contaminated baby milk has suddenly dropped his plans to appeal, defence lawyers say.
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A rare Chinese calligraphy scroll fetches $46m - the second-highest amount paid for an artwork sold at auction in China, state media report.
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China's main economic planning agency moves to reassure people that inflation is not getting out of control.
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All of the 29 miners trapped in a Chinese mine following a flood on Sunday, have been brought back to the surface.
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Rolls-Royce wins a $1.8bn order from Air China to supply and service 20 aircraft engines, its second Chinese contract this month.
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All 29 trapped miners are safely rescued from a flooded coal mine in south-west China.
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India gain three gold medals on the ninth day of competition at the 2010 Asian Games in China's Guangzhou city.
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The man who plies a gruesome trade on China's Yellow River
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Cash flows from Indo-Chinese power struggle
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Taiwanese family drama When Love Comes has wins best film at the Golden Horse awards, seen as the Chinese-language Oscars.
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A construction worker in China has been rescued after being trapped underwater in an iron pipe for more than three days.
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Rescue operations are taking place in south-west China to try to reach 28 miners trapped by a flood at a coal pit.
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The 2015 IAAF World Athletics Championships will be hosted by China's capital Beijing.
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China's state-backed Catholic church ordains a bishop despite objections from the Vatican - the first such ceremony since 2006.
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China's central bank raises the amount of money that lenders must keep in reserve, as it tries again to control high inflation.
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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke criticises "surplus" countries like China in a speech to the European Central Bank.
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The former head of China's main nuclear energy company is sentenced to life in prison for corruption and taking almost $1m in bribes.
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China's exports to Japan of rare earths could resume next week, according to the Japanese trade minister.
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Ambassadors from at least six countries are not attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo - including China and Russia.
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The Vatican says it is alarmed by reports from China that Roman Catholic bishops there are to be forced to attend what it calls the illegal ordination of a new Catholic bishop.
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Allegations that China hijacked a huge chunk of net traffic in April 2009 are rejected by the nation's telecoms company.
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A woman in China is sentenced to a year in a labour camp after posting a message on the social networking website Twitter.
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China's government takes steps to tackle food shortages and inflation, as the stock market tumbles on fears of rate rises.
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China is to tighten its fire prevention measures after a blaze in a Shanghai high-rise building killed at least 53 people and left dozens missing.
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A US navy ship, the USS Essex, is on a high profile visit to Hong Kong in a sign that military tensions between China and the US could be relaxing.
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Why Chinese toymakers' woes could hit UK Christmas presents
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Chinese police detain eight people after a fire in a Shanghai tower block that killed at least 53 people, with unlicensed welders blamed for the blaze.
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China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has been confirmed as the most powerful in the world running at a peak speed of 2.57 petaflops.
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Chinese firm Comac takes its first orders for C919 passenger jets as it seeks to take on Airbus and Boeing.
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What Aung San Suu Kyi's release means for China's jailed dissidents
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A huge fire destroys a high-rise building in the Chinese city of Shanghai, killing at least 42 people and injuring more than 90.
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A Chinese gourmet's tour of Italy's food - and its football
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China catches cricket bug ahead of Asian Games debut
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The UN Security Council receives a controversial report on violations of the Darfur weapons embargo, critical of China and Sudan.
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Robert Peston reports from a Chinese city, built in just five years, that analysts believe could cause a dangerous property bubble.
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A Chinese vase found during a house clearance in a London suburb, has sold at auction for a staggering £43m.
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The 16th annual Asian Games is taking place in Guangzhou, China, and cricket is among the sporting events.
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Will Japan inevitably be eclipsed by China?
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Shares fall around the world, with European markets hit by concerns about Irish government debt, and China fearing rate rises.
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A Chinese court has ruled against a man who says he was denied a teaching job because he is HIV positive, his lawyer says.
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An Angolan minister tells the BBC that a convoy carrying Chinese mine workers was attacked in the region of Cabinda this week.
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China's inflation hits a two-year high, largely thanks to food prices rises, despite government efforts to dampen price rises.
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Activists claim China's human rights situation is getting worse, as Prime Minister David Cameron speaks about democracy and the link with economic progress on his visit to the country.
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Prime Minister David Cameron says China's growing economic freedom should go "in step" with political reform, in a speech to students in Beijing.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron steps into the row over "currency wars" with a warning that China should act to correct its trade imbalance.
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China's trade surplus hits its second highest level this year, raising pressure on Beijing to loosen currency controls.
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A Japanese coastguard official admits leaking a video of a collision between a Japanese patrol boat and Chinese trawler in the East China Sea.
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A Chinese man who campaigned for compensation for victims of a 2008 contaminated baby milk scandal is jailed for "inciting disorder".
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Japan seeks new options on Chinese rare earths
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David Cameron raises the issue of human rights in talks with China, during what he called a "vitally important" trade mission to the country.
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Burma's biggest military-backed party says it has won about 80% of the vote in Sunday's election, which China praises as a step towards democracy.
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David Cameron is travelling with more than 40 business leaders and says he wants to spread the message that Britain is "open for business"
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The lawyer representing this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, the jailed dissident, Liu Xiaobo, has been prevented from leaving China.
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Japanese prosecutors begin an investigation into the leak of footage showing a collision between Chinese and Japanese ships near disputed islands that sparked a bitter diplomatic row.
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A Chinese lawyer for jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo says he will file a lawsuit against the authorities for preventing him leaving China.
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While western economies are still struggling China's leaders face a very different problem, namely coping with the effects of growth.
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A UK government and trade mission to China is the "largest and most high powered" visit to the country from a UK delegation, says Chancellor George Osborne
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US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has dropped calls to cap trade surpluses as the US comes under fire for its quantitative easing policy.
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei - now released from house arrest - says the British PM must raise human rights issues when he visits Beijing on Tuesday.
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Scotch Whisky is to get greater legal protection in China following an agreement between the UK and Chinese officials.
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Supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei hold a party at his studio in Shanghai - an event he could not attend after being placed under house arrest.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says Washington wants a larger military role in Asia, but says such expansion is not to contain China.
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says he has been placed under house arrest to prevent him holding a party to mark the destruction of his Shanghai studio.
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A fire in a shopping centre in northern China kills at least 19 people and leaves 27 more injured, state media reports.
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Germany's finance minister calls the US stimulus programme "clueless", while China warns of its "negative impact".
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China warns that there will be "consequences" if governments show support for jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
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China's Hu Jintao signs billions of euros' worth of business deals during a state visit to France.
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One of China's most outspoken artists, Ai Weiwei, says he will throw a party to mark the forced demolition of his Shanghai studio.
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China internet users are forced to choose between a popular chat programme and a security tool, as a row between two software giants escalates.
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The island disputes of China, Russia and Japan
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BMW reports an 11-fold rise in third quarter profits, as it continues to benefit from a big increase in Chinese sales.
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A Zambian court orders the release on bail of two Chinese mine managers accused attempted murder after they allegedly shot a group of miners.
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Amazon's Kindle is proving popular in China because it allows users to log on to banned websites.
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How the internet is allowing new expression to Chinese citizens
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A senior military intelligence officer has been arrested in Taiwan for being a double agent for China, Taiwan's defence ministry says.
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China rejects an offer from the US to host three-way talks with Japan over the future of a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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A human rights group criticises UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for failing to discuss human rights at talks with China's President Hu Jintao.
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The price of oil hits a six-month high after strong manufacturing data in the US and China boosts confidence in the global recovery.
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China has begun the mammoth task of counting every one of its citizens and recording information about their lives
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Illegal children and migrants pose challenge for China census team
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China begins its first national census in 10 years as it tries to document its 1.3 billion-strong population.
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Shanghai bids farewell to the World Expo, a six-month extravaganza which drew 72m visitors and which China branded as "splendid".
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China assures the US it has no intention of withholding "rare earth" minerals key to hi-tech industries from the international market.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins the Asean summit amid a continuing war of words between China and Japan over disputed islands.
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A diplomatic spat between China and Japan over a group of disputed islands flares up again, hours after an apparently friendly bilateral meeting.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao tells his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, there is "enough space" in the world for the two countries to develop and co-operate.
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