Over 300 million people are now mircoblogging in China, a milestone that authorities find daunting and dissidents encouraging.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Industry and Information, China has the world’s largest number of internet users, 485 million, which …

Trafficking babies is good business in China: Infants can be sold to overseas buyers for as much as $22,000, and the authorities don’t seem to mind.

Heavy metals have contaminated one-sixth of China’s farmland, according to a scholar from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering. The amount of contaminated land is [...]

Little Yueyue, the 2-year-old Chinese girl whom 18 people passed by after she was crushed under the wheels of two cars on Oct. 13, died in the early morning of Oct. 21.

The fate of little Yueyue in southern China has gotten on the nerve of the Chinese public like never before.

Tibet’s exiled prime minister said China’s authoritarian regime was responsible for ITS spate of self-immolations by exerting too much pressure on locals, putting them in a [...]

In Ngaba County, Sichuan Province, China, a Tibetan nun killed herself by self-immolation on Monday in protest against China’s rule of Tibet.

While two students were having snacks in southwestern China, police attacked them with steel pipes and wooden sticks.

In China the birth defect rate has jumped from 8.77 per 1,000 in 1996, to 15 per 1,000 in 2010, according to Report on Women and Children’s Health Development.

Blood centers in several Chinese provinces are severely short as the public, bereft of trust in the China Red Cross after a series of public embezzlement scandals.