A branch of Chinese city governments set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday took the unusual step of publicly insisting that a U.K. businessman who died in suspicious circumstances in China was not working as a British

The son of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai defended his academic record and social life while at university in England and the United States in a letter that is the latest example of the