Iran boasts of oil trade with China;

Taipei restores its China affairs department

One step forward, one step back for China in Africa;

Cross-Strait cooperation against trafficking

Media curbs ahead of Party Congress;

Japanese jitters over growing PLA power

Media blackout on Wenzhou crash anniversary;

Taiwan bolsters defenses  

Police target child-trafficking rings;

Hong Kong protests interference from Beijing  

Chinese students face off against the gaokao;

Chinese citizens rewarded for thwarting plane hijacking  

Washington grants China a waiver from Iran sanctions;

China Defense Minister opposes DPRK provocations

No U.S. invitation to China for world's largest naval exercise;

PRC and ROC reassert claims to Spratlys to counter Vietnam

China upgrades admin status of South China Sea;

Beijing objects to U.S.-Japan-ROK naval drill

Signs point to easing of "

one-child"

policy;

China launches National Human Rights Action Plan