Focus on Sino-Vatican ties as Pope approves bishop

The China Post - A bishop has been ordained in China's state controlled Catholic church with the Pope's blessing in a sign of a thaw in Sino Vatican relations -- but the death in detention of an "underground" bishop loyal to Rome shows a divide remains between the two sides. Full Story

North Korea gives experts full access to nuclear facilities

The China Post - North Korea has given full access to experts from the United States, Russia and China on a rare visit to the reclusive nation to examine ways to disable its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Wednesday. Full Story

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan explore energy export routes

The China Post - The presidents of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, two energy-rich ex-Soviet Central Asian nations, met Tuesday to discuss ways to diversify their export routes, which are currently controlled by Russia. Full Story

China close to signing Petrovic as nat'l team coach

The China Post - China is in advanced talks with Vladimir Petrovic to hire the former Yugoslav international footballer as coach of the troubled national side, Chinese football officials and media said Wednesday. Full Story

Cyber-attacks: A new weapon in state arsenal

The China Post - Cyber-attacks against government networks in recent months illustrate how states like China are discovering the power of a new weapon that is less expensive and more discreet than battalions of tanks or spies. Full Story

Terrorism 'biggest threat' to Beijing Olympics: police chief

The China Post - Terrorism poses the biggest threat to the success of next year's Beijing Olympics, China's police chief said in comments published Tuesday. Full Story

Polluted Beijing voted China's most beautiful city, Hong Kong 2nd

The China Post - Dirty, polluted, congested and razed of many old buildings -- but Beijing has still been chosen as China's most beautiful city. Full Story

Thousands of retired soldiers riot in China

The China Post - About 2,000 former soldiers rioted in three Chinese cities last week over poor conditions in railway vocational schools where they were retraining, smashing equipment and setting fires, a rights group said on Tuesday. Full Story

China ordains new bishop in Guizhou

The China Post - China's Catholic church has ordained an assistant in a southern diocese to succeed the current bishop, state media said Monday, in an apparent case of cooperation with the Vatican. Full Story

Chinese doctors to remove needles from woman

The China Post - Chinese surgeons planned to begin removing 23 needles from a woman, possibly imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place, a hospital spokesman said Monday. Full Story

Xu Simin, Hong Kong magazine publisher, dies at 93

The China Post - Xu Simin, a leading Beijing loyalist and Hong Kong magazine publisher, has died of organ failure, local media reported Monday. Full Story

Reporter films China's own Loch Ness monster: report

The China Post - A television reporter claims to have discovered China's answer to the Loch Ness monster, state press reported Sunday. Full Story

China energy official gets life sentence for corruption

The China Post - A former head of a Chinese state-run energy company has been sentenced to life in prison for taking US$1.3 million in bribe, state media reported on Sunday. Zhang Shaocang, 55, was the latest government official to be punished in recent months as China's leaders step up a public fight against graft and abuse ahead of the five-yearly Communist Party Congress next month. Full Story

Bus crash in China leaves seven dead, 23 injured

The China Post - A bus carrying 30 construction workers in northwest China slammed into a dirt mound on the roadside, killing seven people and injuring 23 others, state media said Sunday. Victims of Saturday's crash in Shaanxi province's Heyang county were laborers from Xi'an city who had been working on a new rail line, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Full Story

Yang Wei of China wins despite tumble at world championships

The China Post - China's Yang Wei lost his grip on the high bar, landed with a thud on the mat and rolled completely off, his coach scampering wildly toward him to make sure he wasn't hurt. Full Story

France falls prey to China cyberattacks

The China Post - French information systems fell prey to cyber attacks "involving China," similar to those reported by the U.S., British and German governments, a top French security official told AFP on Saturday. Full Story

China hackers form United States cyberattack plans

The China Post - Chinese military hackers have drawn up a plan to disable the United States' battle carrier fleet through a cyberattack, British newspaper The Times said Saturday, citing a Pentagon report. Full Story

Hong Kong mother starved kid at school for 3 days

The China Post - A Hong Kong mother has been convicted of neglect after sending her eight-year-old daughter to school with no food for three days running, a news report said Saturday. The girl complained to her teacher of stomach pains after eating only one piece of bread and snacks given to her by classmates over the course of the three days, the South China Morning Post reported. Full Story

China cracks suspected baby trafficking gang

The China Post - Chinese police have detained 47 people accused of trafficking babies, rescuing dozens of infants from a trade driven by rural families' desire for children, state media reported on Friday. The arrests resulted from a months-long inquiry after police grew suspicious of four women carrying babies on a train from the poor southwest province Yunnan to richer east China in May, Xinhua news agency reported. Full Story

Corrupt China official felled by his mistresses

The China Post - A corrupt senior Chinese official was denounced by his 11 mistresses after some of their husbands were sentenced to death for graft, state media said on Friday. Full Story