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19 Mar 10 visit Lord Tebbit, 78, facing charges after 'kicking dancing dragon' during Chinese New Year Officers are now preparing a report for the Crown Prosecution Service which will decide whether the peer should be charged with an offence after a member of public made a complaint.
19 Mar 10 visit Terrifying new species of dinosaur discovered in China by British student The eight foot long creature with scythe-like claws is related to Velociraptor, one of the frightening stars of the film Jurassic Park.
12 Mar 10 visit Hackers from China and Russia are stealing our secrets, warn MPs In its annual report, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee revealed GCHQ (pictured) has had trouble recruiting enough IT experts to combat the threat.
09 Mar 10 visit 200mph 'New Orient Express' could get passengers from London to Beijing in just TWO days The Asian power wants to build the 200mph rail line through Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia, in return to access to the natural resources of the countries it travels through.
08 Mar 10 visit Judge sparks row after telling Chinese defendant to learn English Judge Julian Hall made the remark as he sentenced Wei Cai for ramming her husband's car through a fence off a busy street.
02 Mar 10 visit Prudential gambles on Asia with £24bn deal Britain's second biggest insurer will buy the Asian arm of troubled American firm AIG. It has has decided to bet its future on the fast growing markets of Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
01 Mar 10 visit Apple admits child labour was used to build iPods and iPhones in Chinese factories An audit found that at least eleven 15-year-old children were found to be working in three factories that supply Apple in the last year.
25 Feb 10 visit Is this the end for Hummer? GM brand faces closure after sale to Chinese company collapses Unless a last-minute buyers steps forward, the manufacturing for the iconic sport utility vehicle faces being shut down.
24 Feb 10 visit China 'orders its universities to cut ties with Oxfam over unfriendly intentions' Colleges and universities have been told to boycott a volunteer scheme run by the British-based relief agency, over claims the charity has links to an opposition faction in China.
21 Feb 10 visit Exposed: Dark secret of the farm where tigers' bodies are plundered to make £185 wine In a shabby 'wildlife park' in remote China, 1,500 tigers - half the entire number still in the wild - are bred in squalor and destined to become part of a sinister trade.
11 Feb 10 visit Light show brings Brighton's west pier back to life for Chinese New Year celebration 'A pier appears' was the first event in a series organised by Tiger Beer to celebrate the Chinese New Year, with lasers and a light show bringing the pier alive.
10 Feb 10 visit Prince Charles tries chi - but drops his energy balls Prince Charles didn't look entirely at peace as he contorted himself into the awkward shapes demanded by the ancient Chinese exercise of chi kung.
10 Feb 10 visit Burger King worker who plotted to sell his sister to Chinese man in immigration scam is jailed Michael Wright, 22, was ‘seduced by money’ as he plotted the scam with three Chinese immigrants who he had met at the Burger King where they worked.
06 Feb 10 visit No more chains for Jingdan: Poverty-stricken Chinese father who shackled his son given three years free childcare The plight of two-year- old Jingdan has moved a local nursery boss in Beijing who has offered to give him three years of free child care.
04 Feb 10 visit Child care, Chinese style: Rickshaw driver chains two-year-old son to a post while he's at work Rickshaw driver Chen Chuanliu took the drastic measures after his four-year-old daughter went missing last month.
02 Feb 10 visit Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a baby boy She was brought to a hospital when she was eight and a half months pregnant. Two days later she gave birth to a 6lb boy, a newspaper has reported
28 Jan 10 visit BBC slammed for spending £357m licence fee money on music and sporting events Budgets for the corporation’s coverage of events such as the Beijing Olympics and Radio 1’s Big Weekend lack transparency, according to the National Audit Office.
21 Jan 10 visit Couple who made £500,000 selling bogus degrees to Chinese immigrants are jailed Haiyang Liu, 29, and his lover Jiao Wang, 26, ran a lucrative internet scam selling documents which duped the Home Office into handing out student visas.
16 Jan 10 visit Yahoo under fire for 'reckless' support of Google in row with China over cyber-attacks Yahoo knew it had been a target of sophisticated Chinese cyber-attacks on U.S. firms before Google alerted the company to them, but remained silent.
14 Jan 10 visit Google's China crisis: Beijing refuses to back down in row over censorship and hacking China’s Communist Party issued an iron-fisted response, insisting that government and internet media have a responsibility to shape public opinion.
13 Jan 10 visit US and China on diplomatic collision course over Google internet censorship row A decision by Google to abandon the voluntary censorship of its service in China is expected to trigger a domino effect that will challenge the state's control over information.
13 Jan 10 visit Google threatens China pullout after attacks on Gmail accounts of human rights activists The US company has announced that the December attack, which it said also affected 20 other corporations, 'may well mean' the closure of Google.cn and its offices in China.
12 Jan 10 visit After 100 years, China breaks U.S. dominance of car market Days after it was confirmed as the largest global exporter, China broke an American stranglehold which had started with the development of the Ford Model T.
11 Jan 10 visit Made in China: The rise of communist power continues as country becomes world's largest exporter China has become the world’s largest exporter, the latest sign of the remarkable strength of the Communist power.
10 Jan 10 visit Inside China's secret toxic unobtainium mine RICHARD JONES, the first Western journalist to visit the rare-earth mines in Inner Mongolia, reveals why China is threatening to cut off vital supplies to the West.
07 Jan 10 visit The male model President: Clothes company Weatherproof uses picture of Obama on Times Square billboard Outdoor clothes company Weatherproof used a picture of the president in front of the Great Wall of China for the advertisement, with the tagline 'A Leader In Style'.
01 Jan 10 visit You're doing it wrong! Chinese demolition men accidentally create the leaning tower of Liuzhou Everyone likes to see a good video of a large building being completely reduced to rubble. This video goes one better.
01 Jan 10 visit Four more face execution in China for alleged heroin smuggling They were among nine arrested in the southern port city of Shenzhen with 318.6lbs of heroin. They were seized in September after police tracked the shipment from Pakistan.
31 Dec 09 visit Street justice, Chinese-style as hero cyclist launches his bicycle at bag-snatchers Rather than turn around and give chase, the cyclist calmly stepped off his bike, picked it up, and threw it at them - bringing them down to earth with a resounding thud.
30 Dec 09 visit LEO McKINSTRY: Sorry not to join the liberal wailing: heroin traffickers deserve to die I would argue that Britain's enfeebled, self-destructive approach to narcotics has been graphically highlighted by China's ruthlessness in tackling drug pushers.
29 Dec 09 visit Gordon Brown leads furious outcry as China executes British drugs-mule by lethal injection Just after 4am, Mr Shaikh, who was convicted of smuggling heroin, was killed by and is said to have been buried immediately.
29 Dec 09 visit Chinese archaeologists uncover vast tomb of infamous 3rd century ruler The ancient tomb of a Chinese general and ruler from the third century has been uncovered by archaeologists.
28 Dec 09 visit Vigil for death row Briton due to be executed in China within hours Akmal Shaikh, 53, was told this morning that he is due to be put to death at 10.30am tomorrow (2.30am GMT) after being convicted of smuggling 4kg of heroin.
27 Dec 09 visit Unveiled: China's 245mph train service is the world's fastest... and it was completed in just FOUR years In the week that Britain's high speed rail link closed down because the wrong sort of snow fell, China unveiled the world's fastest train service.
25 Dec 09 visit Chinese dissident jailed for 11 years for 'inciting subversion' Rights groups said the harshness of the sentence was a warning to others who challenge China's one-party rule.
19 Dec 09 visit Climate change summit accepts 'toothless' US-backed agreement - but deal is not legally binding The decision follows a US-led group of five nations - including China - tabling a last-minute proposal that US President Barack Obama called a 'meaningful agreement'.
06 Dec 09 visit PETER HITCHENS: Blood and fear on Happiness Street as China threatens to obliterate another ancient culture After an audacious journey to the remote frontier of China's empire, the MoS columnist uncovers Peking's attempts to destroy a near-forgotten civilisation - while becoming ever more powerful itself.
26 Nov 09 visit Britain ranked near bottom of global survey on quality of life for expats Out of 26 countries, Britain is ranked 23rd, with the likes of Mexico, Vietnam, China and Saudi Arabia considered more desirable places to be based.
22 Nov 09 visit Why Barack Obama's pilgrimage to the Great Wall of China was not as solitary as the spin doctors make out It is a powerful image reproduced all over the world: the President of the United States striding alone last week along the popular Badaling section of the Wall outside Beijing.
17 Nov 09 visit U.S. and China fail to disguise differences after hours of closed-door talks President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao still divided on issues of trade, security, climate change and human rights.
02 Nov 09 visit Rebecca Adlington complains to BBC that punishment for Frankie Boyle is just 'slap on the wrist' The double gold medal winner at last year's Beijing Olympics has demanded an explanation from the BBC Trust over why it chose not to punish the comic for 'outrageous' slurs that left her 'humiliated'.
29 Oct 09 visit The Not-So-Great Mall of China: Welcome to the world's largest (and loneliest) shopping centre The New South China Mall, which opened in 2005, stands empty with 99 per cent of its shops having remained unleased and attractions including a 553-metre indoor and outdoor roller coaster standing idle.
16 Oct 09 visit LDV bought by Chinese businesswoman who had fling with Rover boss The Chinese businesswoman who was at the centre of the MG Rover scandal has bought vanmaker LDV from its administrators for £8million.
13 Oct 09 visit What recession? China has second-highest number of billionaires as nation's super-rich buck financial crisis China's rich are getting richer, with the average wealth on the list $571 million, up almost one-third from last year.
12 Oct 09 visit Six sentenced to death by Chinese court after violent ethnic riots that left 200 dead They were the first people to be convicted for involvement in the riots, which saw Muslim Uighurs storm the western Chinese city of Urumqi in the deadliest ethnic violence the country has seen for decades.
11 Oct 09 visit Stephen Fry begs China to spare life of mentally ill Briton facing firing squad It is believed Akmal Shaikh, 53, suffers from bipolar disorder and may have been duped by heroin traffickers without ­realising what he was doing.
06 Oct 09 visit Embarrassment for MoD as anti-leak guide gets leaked on to the internet The 560,000-word guide - marked 'Restricted' - sets out tactics for preventing Chinese and Russian intelligence services from using blackmail to obtain information.
02 Oct 09 visit Iran steps back from the brink by agreeing to send uranium to Russia The agreement was struck at negotiations in Geneva between Tehran and Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the U.S.
01 Oct 09 visit Marching to world domination: China celebrates 60 years of communism with a display of military might that should worry the West Beneath today's orgy of celebrations lurks a disturbing reality. China has embraced cut-throat capitalism to a degree that makes even Western economists blanch.
30 Sep 09 visit Beijing lockdown: City gears up to mark six decades of Communist Party rule Beijing lockdown: City gears up to mark six decades of Communist Party rule

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