A growing number of Chinese officials have found themselves ensnared by extortion plots that leverage the public’s disgust for wayward behavior.

China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is to launch its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in Shenzhen.

The former intelligence contractor who leaked documents on US surveillance has defended himself in an online chat from HK, the Guardian reports.

Three youths have been charged and detained in France over a racist attack on six Chinese students in the European nation's wine-making region that has been condemned by both Beijing and Paris, officials said yesterday.
The youths, aged 19 and 20, were charged on Sunday night with aggravated violence, using or threatening to use arms, as well as drunkenness, the prosecutor's office in Bordeaux said.
They were then placed under detention, it added.