Capping more than a decade of service to the China's Communist Party, Vice President Hu Jintao was named the party's new general secretary Friday, making him the highest ranking political leader in Asia's fastest growing economic power.

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A Chinese author who published essays on the Internet about politics was arrested on charges of subversion, a U.S.-based journalists' rights group reported this week.

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More than a million farmers, soldiers and other residents of China's Hunan province piled sandbags and reinforced dikes Friday to keep a massive lake's rising water levels from swamping nearby towns.

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Speaking to university students, President Bush ended his 30-hour visit to China with an appeal for greater personal, political and religious freedoms on Friday.

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President Bush met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Beijing today, where Mr. Bush is on the final leg of a week-long East Asian tour.

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China Thursday released two U.S.-based Chinese scholars convicted of spying. The move comes just days before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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The International Olympic Committee Friday selected Beijing to host the 2008 summer games.

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The last parts of a spy plane that collided with a Chinese fighter three months ago are headed back to the U.S. Tuesday.

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A newspaper editor in central China was reportedly fired Friday after publishing stories that exposed alleged government corruption.

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A Russian cargo plane arrived at a U.S. air base in Japan, on its way to China to retrieve the damaged U.S. spy plane.

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