China

A child undergoes cleft palate surgery by charity Operation Smile in Xian, China (2007)

Arrests over dead cleft lip baby

A doctor and man in Shanghai are arrested on suspicion of murdering the man's newborn grandson born with a cleft palate, say Chinese state media.
  • 24 July 2015
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  • From the section China
Former student leader in the protests of 1989, Wu

China dissident runs in Taiwan vote

A Chinese democracy activist who was among the leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests is running for a seat in Taiwan's parliament.
  • 24 July 2015
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  • From the section Asia

Myanmar jails China loggers for life

  • 23 July 2015
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  • From the section Asia

China returns passport to Ai Weiwei

China army liberated from smelly feet

  • 22 July 2015
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  • From the section China

Features

NOVEMBER 12: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attend a press conference

Head to head

How do US and China compare in Africa?
Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent
  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Africa
Guangfu church

Faith and fear

How China is cracking down on evangelists from Hong Kong
  • 22 July 2015
Shanghai stock board

Rollercoaster ride

What does China's stock market crash tell us?
  • 22 July 2015
  • From the section Business
Ordos, Inner Mongolia

'Ordos ordeal'

Police tight-lipped on tourist arrests
Carrie GracieBBC China editor
  • 18 July 2015
  • From the section China
Geoduck

Meet the geoduck

The bizarre clam America sends to China
  • 19 July 2015
  • From the section Magazine
Chinese Weibo users were sharing photos such as the one above in a thread dedicated to discussing how gay people came out to their parents

'Parents, I'm gay'

How young Chinese are having that difficult conversation 
  • 13 July 2015

Public disturbances in the spotlight in China

All kinds of people have been "disturbing public order" this week in China. It almost, but not quite, makes you feel sorry for Big Brother, writes the BBC's Carrie Gracie.
24 July 2015

Carrie Gracie

 
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