BEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday welcomed a visit by his Chilean counterpart amid efforts by the fast-growing Asian country to boost investment in resource-rich Latin America.

A man has been convicted of catching, killing and eating what may have been the last wild Indochinese tiger in China. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla in the southwestern Yunnan Province, got a 12-year sentence and was fined a total of 580,000...

When Edmund Ho, Macau’s first chief executive, assumed office on December 20, 1999, the former Portuguese colony near Hong Kong was a very different place. Hong Kong business mogul Stanley Ho had a monopoly on the region’s sleepy gambling...

Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of the convicts had their sentences suspended for two years. Three defendants were...

INTERNET addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn’t work, the Chinese Health Ministry says. Nearly 3000 youths have undergone electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, or electroshock) at Linyi Mental Health Hospital, resident...

Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas. An investigation by the state-owned Southern Metropolis News found that about 80 girls in one county had...

Chinese internet users have reacted with fury after Microsoft launched an anti-piracy tool to combat the widespread sale of fake software.

In a modest move toward greater openness, China said Friday that it would permanently ease restrictions on foreign news media operating in the world’s most populous country.Under the rules, signed by Premier Wen Jiabao, foreign journalists...

Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports on how China’s one-child policy and foreign adoptions are prompting tens of thousands of abductions every year.

– With the Olympics in Beijing in full course there has been more violence reported in the western region of Xinjiang: three security guards were killed and a fourth wounded at a road block near Kashgar, the border city that was theatre to the assault...