Beijing

Obama was reportedly planning to confront China on cyber attacks but recent revelations on US policy push president to corner.

North Korean envoy arrives in Beijing as Pyongyang attempts to cement relations.

China's property tightening policies are not strictly enforced on the local level, feel analysts.

Top Chinese bank scraps all financial deals with North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank

Beijing 'mobilises' troops and tanks in region separated by Yalu River.

Kerry to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and top officials and urge them to pull back North Korea.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe and China’s Li Keqiang stick to hardline stance on Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.

China setting up bullet train network between Dandong and Hunchun, apart from other projects.

Bullet train link between Beijing and Guangzhou to reduce travel time by eight hours.

Names of new leaders yet to be formally declared

Hu Jintao stresses need for reform of political structure and making democracy more broad-based as once-in-a-decade leadership change gets under way.

Beijing blocks websites inside China over story on wealth of outgoing premier Wen Jiabao's family.

Store opening shows Apple is betting big on China, its second largest market after the US.

King Sihanouk, who has been ailing for some time, dies of heart attack.

The outcome of the election is expected to have a major bearing on the way democracy evolves in Hong Kong.

Japanese activists land on disputed Uotsuri island and wave the Japanese flag, triggering protests in China.

Government official admits that Beijing floods exposed planning and infrastructure problems.

Hong Kong gets a new chief executive, a millionaire, Leung Chun-ying.

China asks US embassy to stop publishing the air pollution levels of Beijing.

London tops the list of most important global cities in a survey conducted by Knight Frank Research.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of T-Rex which is very different from the original.