Chinese state security officials have detained a journalist who recently disappeared after completing a documentary on labor camp abuses, the photographer's sister and close friend said Thursday.Full story
Two men have been charged with planting cyanide-tainted bombs on a Taiwan high-speed train and at an office where the head of global electronics powerhouse Foxconn was scheduled to visit in April. The devices failed to explode. Full story
HONG KONG (Reuters)-Even as Xi Jinping gets ready to assume the presidency of China this month, jockeying has begun for 2017 when rising stars of the ruling Communist Party move into top leadership posts. Full story
A man watches a television screen showing China's newly elected President and chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping shaking hands with his predecessor Hu Jintao during the fourth plenary meeting of the first session of the 12th National People's Congress , on a subway in Shanghai M
Attendants serve tea to Guangdong Communist Party Secretary Hu Chunhua The village, Shangpu, is in Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong. The province is China's most wealthy and most politically aware, and the Communist Party chief there is Hu, a member of the powerful 25-person national politburo and a
China's outgoing President Hu Jintao and China's Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping arrive as delegates clap during the closing ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: POLITIC
China's outgoing President Hu Jintao and China's Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping sit ahead of the closing ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)
