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China's State Council Thursday responded to US State Department human rights reports issued Monday that had blasted China for human rights abuses by issuing a report of its own on US human rights practices highlighting abuses...

Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee Hwa is reportedly going to step down from office as the leader of the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong for health reasons. Tung took the leadership...

Taiwanese Premier Frank Hsieh has warned that China's planned approval of an anti-secession law will strain relations between the two countries, destroying the goodwill recently developed by the opening of commercial flights between the two...

The Chinese government paper China Daily Wednesday reported that the number of Chinese couples seeking a divorce in 2004 rose to 1.6 million, a dramatic increase over previous years attributed to a 2003 law reform that dropped...

China Tuesday criticized a US State Department report on its human rights record, accusing the United States of using human rights to interfere in the country's internal affairs. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman also alleged human rights...

Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women in the Beijing Declaration , the progress meeting organized by the UN Commission on the Status of Women started Monday with controversy over American insistence...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Friday that the Sino-US Joint Liaison Group (JLG) has signed a joint agreement at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of US and Chinese...

President Bush has urged European leaders to reconsider plans to end a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, arguing that it could jeopardize US security guarantees for Taiwan. Bush was expected to press the issue during his visit to the...

The US remains undecided on whether to support a UN resolution on China's human rights violations, despite new evidence of improvement by the country, a US embassy spokeswoman has said. The resolution is expected to be considered at the...

In Thursday's environmental law news, Tyson Foods has settled a lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club and three Kentuckians over the air pollution from 80 chicken houses. The company agreed Wednesday to fund a study of the...