Wikileaks China

Hackers apparently connected to China accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables in the latest embarrassing data breach to hit a major international organisation.

Hillary Clinton privately said the US would "ring China with missile defense" if the Chinese government failed to curb North Korea's nuclear program, a potential hint at how the former secretary of state would act if elected president.

The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on earth.

Edward Snowden: India has refused a request for asylum from former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

An Icelandic businessman linked to the WikiLeaks website said on Tuesday three private jets chartered to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong had been cancelled on Tuesday morning.

Edward Snowden, an American who has leaked details of top-secret US surveillance programmes and is believed to be in Hong Kong, is technically free to leave the China-ruled city at any time, local lawyers said today, and one suggested he probably should.

An offer to sell uranium pilfered from India's nuclear facilities by a businessman claiming to be a relative of a Nepalese diplomat set off a flurry of mails between US missions in late 1973.

It was a huge row and just a week before China's President Hu Jinto was to make a crucial visit to India. In November 2006, China's Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, aggressively claimed that Arunachal Pradesh was a part of China. In India, it made headlines.Now, Wikileaks cables, released first and exclusively to NDTV, reveal that Sun's statement did...

As the United States searches for new ways to nudge Myanmar toward democratic change, it may find an unexpected ally in China, according to secret diplomatic cables.Internal State Department correspondence made public by WikiLeaks shows a much less adversarial relationship between the United States and China over Myanmar than the language of offici...

Switzerland on Monday closed a bank account set up by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as his website unveiled a secret list of key infrastructure sites around the world that could be targeted by terrorists.The Swiss Post Office's banking arm said it had closed an account set up by the embattled Australian after he gave false information. "PostFina...

Australia's former premier Kevin Rudd had told the US that it should be ready to "deploy force" if attempts to integrate China with the international community do not yield results, secret cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed, prompting an embarrassed Australia to insist that it continues to have strong ties with Beijing.According to a secre...

China, at the apparent request of Pakistan, put a "technical hold" on an Indian request to the UN Security Council to slap sanctions on three terrorists, says a secret State Department cable of December 2009 signed off by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.China in its capacity as the Permanent Member of the UN Security Council has the veto powe...

As China  ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: they were Googling themselves.The May 18, 2009, cable, titled "Google China Paying Price for Resisting Censors...

China had opposed the expansion of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2005 by prevailing on the US not to dilute the prime position enjoyed by five veto-wielding members by adding more as it would create "trouble" for them, according to leaked US cable by WikiLeaks. As the new emerging powers - India, Brazil, Japan and Germany - made a stron...

Internet users in China were unable to access the WikiLeaks website on Tuesday after hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables were published on the whistle-blower website, some involving Beijing.Attempts to open the website in Beijing and Shanghai were met with a message saying the page could not be displayed. The site could however be ...

Hackers apparently connected to China accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables in the latest embarrassing data breach to hit a major international organisation.

Hillary Clinton privately said the US would "ring China with missile defense" if the Chinese government failed to curb North Korea's nuclear program, a potential hint at how the former secretary of state would act if elected president.

The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on earth.

Edward Snowden: India has refused a request for asylum from former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

An Icelandic businessman linked to the WikiLeaks website said on Tuesday three private jets chartered to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong had been cancelled on Tuesday morning.

Edward Snowden, an American who has leaked details of top-secret US surveillance programmes and is believed to be in Hong Kong, is technically free to leave the China-ruled city at any time, local lawyers said today, and one suggested he probably should.

An offer to sell uranium pilfered from India's nuclear facilities by a businessman claiming to be a relative of a Nepalese diplomat set off a flurry of mails between US missions in late 1973.

It was a huge row and just a week before China's President Hu Jinto was to make a crucial visit to India. In November 2006, China's Ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, aggressively claimed that Arunachal Pradesh was a part of China. In India, it made headlines.Now, Wikileaks cables, released first and exclusively to NDTV, reveal that Sun's statement did...

As the United States searches for new ways to nudge Myanmar toward democratic change, it may find an unexpected ally in China, according to secret diplomatic cables.Internal State Department correspondence made public by WikiLeaks shows a much less adversarial relationship between the United States and China over Myanmar than the language of offici...

Switzerland on Monday closed a bank account set up by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as his website unveiled a secret list of key infrastructure sites around the world that could be targeted by terrorists.The Swiss Post Office's banking arm said it had closed an account set up by the embattled Australian after he gave false information. "PostFina...

Australia's former premier Kevin Rudd had told the US that it should be ready to "deploy force" if attempts to integrate China with the international community do not yield results, secret cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed, prompting an embarrassed Australia to insist that it continues to have strong ties with Beijing.According to a secre...

China, at the apparent request of Pakistan, put a "technical hold" on an Indian request to the UN Security Council to slap sanctions on three terrorists, says a secret State Department cable of December 2009 signed off by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.China in its capacity as the Permanent Member of the UN Security Council has the veto powe...

As China  ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: they were Googling themselves.The May 18, 2009, cable, titled "Google China Paying Price for Resisting Censors...

China had opposed the expansion of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2005 by prevailing on the US not to dilute the prime position enjoyed by five veto-wielding members by adding more as it would create "trouble" for them, according to leaked US cable by WikiLeaks. As the new emerging powers - India, Brazil, Japan and Germany - made a stron...

Internet users in China were unable to access the WikiLeaks website on Tuesday after hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables were published on the whistle-blower website, some involving Beijing.Attempts to open the website in Beijing and Shanghai were met with a message saying the page could not be displayed. The site could however be ...