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The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship and other vessels off a Filipino military-occupied shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands.A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said Tuesday the Philippines denounced the "provocative and illegal presence" of Beijing's ships off Ayungin Shoal in the South China Sea.Spokesman Raul Hernandez said the complaint was filed two weeks ago at the Chinese Embassy in Manila. It called the shoal "an integral part of our national territory."Dozens of Chinese fishing boats were also sighted nearby.Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin says another protest might be lodged if authorities can confirm that two ships which chased a Philippine official's ferry boat last week near Ayungin were Chinese government vessels.It's the latest territorial rift between the Asian neighbors....
Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa.Official...
The Obama administration pressed Beijing on Thursday to accept a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, a difficult...
Hershey has announced plans to roll out a new candy made for specifically for the Chinese market. In a first launch beyond the U.S., Hershey unveiled on Tuesday a ca...
As rescuers scour the rubble of tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., desperately searching for trapped survivors, recent history shows there is reason for hope.Word that th...
Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society movement ...
A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death in the government's latest crackdown on underground lending that is widely used by entrepreneurs.The In...
The shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard has become the latest incident to roil tensions over territorial disputes in and around the...
A Chinese aviation industry news website says a man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai.It's...
Upset about plans for a petrochemical plant near her hometown in China, a woman turned to a new method that Chinese are using to air their complaints: she posted a p...
Guan Tianlang has decided not to try to play in the U.S. Open.The USGA said Tuesday that the 14-year-old from China has withdrawn from sectional qualifying in Dallas...
The monthlong standoff between China and the Philippines over a South China Sea shoal is snowballing with hints of economic retaliation and sharpening public opinion...
A Chinese state media report and a boat owner say unidentified North Koreans have taken one of his fishing boats and its crew and are demanding a ransom.Yu Xuejun sa...
China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in t...
China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to mo...
A blast at an explosives factory in eastern China has killed five people and left another 20 missing.The official Xinhua News Agency said rescue work was continuing ...
China's new premier says he chose India as the site of his first foreign visit because cooperation between the world's two most populous nations is crucial to world ...
Hundreds of tons of frozen mutton, lamb and beef from New Zealand have been stranded on Chinese docks after China halted imports from the country due to a certificat...
While the recent troop standoff in a remote Himalayan desert spotlights a long-running border dispute between China and India, the two emerging giants are engaged in...
The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for more than two weeks by armed North Koreans says the captors wore military uniforms, and that they beat up the boat's c...