Michael Wines New York Times

The authorities in a second Chinese city have begun seizing iPads from local retailers in a trademark dispute between Apple and Proview Technology.

Communist leaders in China are proposing new limits on media and Internet freedoms that include some of the most restrictive measures in years.

"After all the wind and storm, what's going on with the high-speed train?" read the prophetic message posted last Saturday evening on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo. "It's crawling slower than a snail. I hope nothing happens to it."

The leaders of China's and America's militaries sought on Monday to cast aside decades of hostility between the two establishments, pledging at a joint news conference here to pursue what they separately called a "great opportunity" to create a "shared vision" of cooperation. But neither indicated that his government was willing to alter positions ...

The J-15 Flying Shark is China's newest attack jet, a sinuous fighter with the folding wings, shortened tail cone and bulked-up landing gear it needs to serve on China's first aircraft carrier, which is expected to start sea trials soon. It is indisputable evidence of China's growing mastery of military technology. Also military technology of Russi...

Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck. The tsunami came just over a half-hour later, far exceeding even their worst fears. He and other survivors described a wall of frothing brown water that tore through this town of more tha...

An explosion at a nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Saturday blew the roof off one building and destroyed the exterior walls of a crippled reactor, but officials said radiation leaks from the plant were receding and that a major meltdown was not imminent. (Watch: Explosion at Fukushima nuclear power plant)Japanese television showed a cloud o...

In a major new assessment of North Korea, US Defence Secretary Robert M Gates said on Tuesday that the country is becoming a direct threat to the United States and was within five years of developing a missile with the potential of hitting Alaska or the West Coast.Mr. Gates said that although he expected North Korea's ability to be limited, he anti...

China's military conducted a test flight of a new stealth fighter jet on Tuesday, overshadowing an important visit to Beijing by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates aimed at improving defense ties -- and apparently catching China's civilian leadership off guard. Staging the test flight of the long-secret J-20 while Mr. Gates was in Beijing amounted t...

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, on a mission to resuscitate moribund military relations with China, will not arrive in Beijing for talks with the nation's top military leaders until Sunday. But at an airfield in Chengdu, a metropolis in the nation's center, China's military leaders have already rolled out a welcome for him.It is the J-20, a r...

China's first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said.But the nation's state-run media, which called news of the tests "rumors" in Wednesday's newspapers, sought to play down...

Here is the plan unwrapped last week by Beijing's city fathers to tackle the city's suffocating traffic: 280,000 new parking spaces; 1,000 share-a-bike stations; 348 miles of new subway track; 125 miles of new downtown streets; 23 miles of tunnels; 9 new transportation hubs; 3 congestion zones; and 1 cure-all, "the use of modern technology." Never ...

The United States ambassador had just written China's foreign minister expressing concern for Liu Xiaobo, the Beijing intellectual imprisoned a year earlier for drafting a pro-democracy manifesto. Now Mr Ding, a deputy in the ministry's American section, was reading the riot act to an American attaché. Mr Ding said he would try to avoid "beco...

China began tallying its population on Monday for the first time since 2000, an arduous task at best, likely to be made tougher by the need to count scores of millions of migrant workers in the nation's big cities.The government said it has sent more than six million census-takers out to survey 400 million households, including the shantytowns and ...

China's military expansion and assertive trade policies have set off jitters across Asia, prompting many of its neighbors to rekindle old alliances and cultivate new ones to better defend their interests against the rising superpower.A whirl of deal-making and diplomacy, from Tokyo to New Delhi, is giving the United States an opportunity to reasser...

The authorities in a second Chinese city have begun seizing iPads from local retailers in a trademark dispute between Apple and Proview Technology.

Communist leaders in China are proposing new limits on media and Internet freedoms that include some of the most restrictive measures in years.

"After all the wind and storm, what's going on with the high-speed train?" read the prophetic message posted last Saturday evening on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo. "It's crawling slower than a snail. I hope nothing happens to it."

The leaders of China's and America's militaries sought on Monday to cast aside decades of hostility between the two establishments, pledging at a joint news conference here to pursue what they separately called a "great opportunity" to create a "shared vision" of cooperation. But neither indicated that his government was willing to alter positions ...

The J-15 Flying Shark is China's newest attack jet, a sinuous fighter with the folding wings, shortened tail cone and bulked-up landing gear it needs to serve on China's first aircraft carrier, which is expected to start sea trials soon. It is indisputable evidence of China's growing mastery of military technology. Also military technology of Russi...

Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck. The tsunami came just over a half-hour later, far exceeding even their worst fears. He and other survivors described a wall of frothing brown water that tore through this town of more tha...

An explosion at a nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Saturday blew the roof off one building and destroyed the exterior walls of a crippled reactor, but officials said radiation leaks from the plant were receding and that a major meltdown was not imminent. (Watch: Explosion at Fukushima nuclear power plant)Japanese television showed a cloud o...

In a major new assessment of North Korea, US Defence Secretary Robert M Gates said on Tuesday that the country is becoming a direct threat to the United States and was within five years of developing a missile with the potential of hitting Alaska or the West Coast.Mr. Gates said that although he expected North Korea's ability to be limited, he anti...

China's military conducted a test flight of a new stealth fighter jet on Tuesday, overshadowing an important visit to Beijing by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates aimed at improving defense ties -- and apparently catching China's civilian leadership off guard. Staging the test flight of the long-secret J-20 while Mr. Gates was in Beijing amounted t...

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, on a mission to resuscitate moribund military relations with China, will not arrive in Beijing for talks with the nation's top military leaders until Sunday. But at an airfield in Chengdu, a metropolis in the nation's center, China's military leaders have already rolled out a welcome for him.It is the J-20, a r...

China's first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said.But the nation's state-run media, which called news of the tests "rumors" in Wednesday's newspapers, sought to play down...

Here is the plan unwrapped last week by Beijing's city fathers to tackle the city's suffocating traffic: 280,000 new parking spaces; 1,000 share-a-bike stations; 348 miles of new subway track; 125 miles of new downtown streets; 23 miles of tunnels; 9 new transportation hubs; 3 congestion zones; and 1 cure-all, "the use of modern technology." Never ...

The United States ambassador had just written China's foreign minister expressing concern for Liu Xiaobo, the Beijing intellectual imprisoned a year earlier for drafting a pro-democracy manifesto. Now Mr Ding, a deputy in the ministry's American section, was reading the riot act to an American attaché. Mr Ding said he would try to avoid "beco...

China began tallying its population on Monday for the first time since 2000, an arduous task at best, likely to be made tougher by the need to count scores of millions of migrant workers in the nation's big cities.The government said it has sent more than six million census-takers out to survey 400 million households, including the shantytowns and ...

China's military expansion and assertive trade policies have set off jitters across Asia, prompting many of its neighbors to rekindle old alliances and cultivate new ones to better defend their interests against the rising superpower.A whirl of deal-making and diplomacy, from Tokyo to New Delhi, is giving the United States an opportunity to reasser...