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Residents point to rising rates of respiratory disease since the factories began operation.

Environmentalists are skeptical that five-year pollution reduction targets will be met.

Unregulated industries contaminate local water sources, sickening thousands.

Poor villagers in central China protest lead and zinc pollution that has affected more than 100 children.

The country's media has been warned to stick to official scripts on the disaster, while social media posts from the scene are being deleted.

Chinese fish farmers are demanding answers and compensation after their stocks died off in recent days.

Local people march to government offices to complain over 'stinking gases' in residential areas.

Analysts say the plan will require tough law enforcement to implement, and leaves out some crucial details.

Residents of China's largest city say waste from a battery plant is making them sick.

The recent party congress vows to 'get tough' on pollution, but systemic obstacles remain in spite of renewed will from the top.

Environmental writer Zheng Yi says Chinese officials are already well used to converting widespread environment destruction into cash and then fleeing ...

The top US diplomat says decades of engagement with China have failed.

The top U.S. diplomat said the new US-Mekong partnership will help strengthen water security in the region.

Millions of rural people seeking work in China's cities receive low incomes and live in substandard accommodation.

The Defense Daily accuses Cantopop star Hins Cheung of supporting independence for his home city, though he has denied it.

Chinese family planning officials detain and sterilize a woman following the birth of her second child.

As the Olympic torch makes its way north to Beijing, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong boost security around the home of a jailed family ...

Chinese authorities say they have closed down 91 Web sites, targeting big-name search engines in the latest clampdown on "vulgar content."

Hundreds of Chinese villagers vow to block construction work at a major international container port.

'We have paid a rather high price,' says one of the trio, all of whom spent long years in jail.

Chinese authorities detain activists amid 'stability' concerns ahead of a top leadership transition.

Victims of China's 2008 earthquake call for a probe into the quality of their new homes.

Many of China's prisoners of conscience will spend the New Year holiday behind bars.

Political detainees in China are suddenly getting a lot more mail, as netizens press for their release.

Zhen Jianghua is the latest to be taken away on suspicion of 'subversion' for helping others evade censorship online.

Chinese supporters launch a new campaign to highlight imprisoned activists.

The authorities are apparently worried about a nebulous online activists' network called the Xinghua Club.

Opposition lawmakers say the move is tantamount to a political coup, and has plunged the city into a constitutional crisis.

The authorities have been targeting the entertainment industry in a recent campaign.

Matt Pottinger says the heirs of a 1919 protest movement are today’s oppressed whistleblowers, lawyers and rights activists.