Tag: China

Pro-democracy supporters raise banners that read: "Referendum," during a kickoff ceremony of an referendum on democracy under a plan of Occupy-style protest in Hong Kong, Friday, June 20, 2014. The Occupy Central protest calls for 10,000 people to take over the streets of the financial district sometime in the coming months if the government fails to come up with a satisfactory reform proposal to choose the city's next leader, who is currently picked by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

HK in unofficial democracy vote, alarming Beijing

Kelvin Chan · June 20, 2014 11:07 am

China says moving 2nd oil rig closer to Vietnam

Christopher Bodeen · June 19, 2014 8:42 am

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, a Chinese police officer reaches out towards a journalist outside the courthouse where a trial of Chinese activists from a group that urges fellow citizens to embrace their constitutional rights is underway in Xinyu city in eastern China's Jiangxi province. A court in eastern China has imposed jail terms of up to six and a half years to three activists who were part of a nascent civil rights movement that has urged government officials to publicly disclose their assets. Attorney Zhou Ze says a district court in the city of Xinyu on Thursday, June 19, 2014 sentenced activists Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping to six and a half years' imprisonment each while another activist, Li Sihua, was handed three years. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra, File)

China jails citizen activists up to 6 1/2 years

Gillian Wong · June 19, 2014 5:19 am

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pose for photos before their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday June 18, 2014. Talks between Yang Jiechi and Vietnamese officials on produced no breakthrough in the impasse over an increasingly bitter confrontation in the disputed South China Sea, a Vietnamese official said. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

Vietnam, China make no progress in oil rig talks

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 2:00 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2014 file photo taken by surveillance planes and released May 15 by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, a Chinese vessel, top center, is used to expand structures and land on the Johnson Reef, called Mabini by the Philippines and Chigua by China, at the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Philippines. The Philippines wants an international tribunal to issue a decision as quickly as it can on a Manila complaint that questions the legality of China's massive territorial claims in the South China Sea because the disputes continue to escalate. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said late Tuesday, June 17 that the Philippines would ask its lawyers to petition the Arbitral Tribunal in the Hague, the Netherlands, to issue an earlier ruling after China said it would not get involved in the case, which should shorten the arbitration proceedings. (AP Photo/Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, File)

Philippines seeks quick ruling on suit with China

Jim Gomez · June 18, 2014 11:54 am

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, shakes hands with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh before their talks behind closed-door on the tension in the South China Sea in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday June 18, 2014. Yang's visit is the highest-level direct dialogue bewteen the two countries since tension flared following Chinese placement of an oil rig off Vietnam's coast in early May. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

China, Vietnam affirm desire to resolve problems

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:54 am

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, center, receives Chinese premier Li Keqiang, left, and his wife Cheng Hong at Windsor Castle, during their visit to the Britain, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons, pool)

Trade deals signed as China premier visits UK

Sylvia Hui · June 17, 2014 5:03 pm

Report: Chinese phone comes preloaded with spyware

RAPHAEL SATTERFRANK JORDANS · June 17, 2014 4:50 pm

Alibaba’s growth slips to slowest pace in 6 years

Michael Liedtke · June 16, 2014 8:58 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, cleaners walk past an area shielded by green nets in front of Tiananmen Gate after a car plowed through tourists and ended up in a fiery crash at the gate in the heart of Beijing, killing two bystanders and the three attackers. A court in western China sentenced three people to death Monday, June 16, 2014 for planning the deadly car ramming at Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Gate last year that was blamed on Muslim separatists, state media reported. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

China executes 13 over terrorism, violent crimes

Washington Examiner · June 16, 2014 3:51 pm

China premier in UK visit to boost trade ties

China premier in UK visit to boost trade ties

Sylvia Hui · June 16, 2014 1:40 pm

Zogby Report Card: 2008’s ‘audacity’ and ‘hope’ crash land

Zogby Report Card: 2008’s ‘audacity’ and ‘hope’ crash land

Paul Bedard · June 14, 2014 10:00 am