Beijing, Seoul, start strategic dialogue on DPRK;

Taiwan report finds out-of-date weapons and soldiers lacking training

Filipino flag-raising in Spratlys angers China;

Chinese jets intercept American spy plane over Taiwan waters

Beijing limiting property purchases to cool housing boom;

Uighur separatists launch attack on police station in Xinjiang

PRC, ROK in joint counter-narcotics effort;

Proliferation of golf courses causing illegal land seizures

Second thoughts about one-child policy;

Russia to sell China more jet engines