Beijing - China has placed in criminal detention 100 people charged with offences linked to rioting last month in the south-western province of Guizhou, including 39 members of local gangs, state m

Taipei - Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), came under fire Monday from opposition lawmakers who said it was selling out the island to China by promoting cross-strait unification.

Lai Ching-te, caucus leader of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), criticized the KMT, referring to a controversial statement made by KMT Vice Chairman Kuan Chung during a visit to China earlier this month. Kuan said it was a KMT goal to unify Taiwan and China.

"Unification will take care of itself if the KMT remains as governing party for a long time," Kuan was quoted as saying by China's state-run People's Daily newspaper last week.

London, July 14 : Chinese soldiers have reportedly placed over 1,000 Tibetan Buddhist monks under armed guard in monasteries around Lhasa, four months after anti-Chinese riots left the area in a state of devastation.

According to The Times, troops of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have sealed off Drepung, the largest monastery in Tibet.

Nobody is being allowed to go in or out. Photography is banned and passers-by are being shooed away.

A camp of olive-green tents and two rings of roadblocks surround this sanctuary of meditation. Local people say the monks pay the army for food to be sent to them.

Taipei - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that Taipei won't stop buying a

London, July 12 : China has said that it will offer up to 50, 000 pounds to anyone providing tip-offs that prevent security threats, demonstrations or attacks on foreigners at next month’s Olympic

Beijing - China has executed two Uighurs and sentenced 15 others to prison in its Central Asian region of Xinjiang after a court convicted them of terrorism, US-based Radio Free Asia reported on S