Barbara Demick

This is a parade that demands state-level security. Discipline. Extreme secrecy. Ordinary people will not be allowed anywhere near the parade route in Beijing this Thursday, when the Chinese People's...

CHINA Needle stabbings ignite protest More than 10,000 residents of a city overtaken in July by deadly riots take to the streets demanding protection URUMQI -- More than 10,000 Han...

Where Michael Phelps last summer swam for Olympic gold, there are now swans -- or at least ballerinas and synchronized swimmers pretending to be swans, plus a few plastic ones...

Back in the 1960s and '70s, when Italian opera was deemed a capitalist indulgence in China, no work was more despised than Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot." Many Chinese thought the opera...

China's ethnic tensions have spilled over to Australia, where all Chinese films scheduled for the Melbourne International Film Festival have been pulled to protest the inclusion of a documentary about...

The clock in the lobby of the International Hotel shows it is almost 11 p.m., too late for dinner. Not to worry. Take an underpass to cross the main street...

Chinese officials and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on the global economic crisis and climate change, while treading carefully around human-rights issues that...

North Korea kicked out UN weapons inspectors from a plant that previously produced weapons-grade plutonium and notified the UN's nuclear watchdog that it would restart operations as early as next...

It was supposed to be on a "Journey of Harmony," but the Olympic torch celebrating the Beijing summer Games was quietly slipped into this city before dawn Tuesday, dogged by...

North Korea missed an important year-end deadline to report details of its nuclear program in a sign that dictator Kim Jong Il is again stalling on his promises of denuclearization....