A bolder Hu tests power at Communist Party congress

The China Post - When President Hu Jintao opens the 17th Chinese Communist Party congress on Oct. 15, he will be seeking to oust key rivals, name a successor and finally emerge from the shadow of his once powerful predecessor, Jiang Zemin. Full Story

House passes resolution to give medal to Dalai Lama

The China Post - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday to allow the use of the U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony next month to bestow Congress' highest civilian honor on the Dalai Lama. Full Story

China offers to sell 8 military choppers to Philippines

The China Post - China has offered to sell 8 utility helicopters to the Philippine military as it seeks to replace its Vietnam War-era aircraft, a Philippine air force official said on Wednesday. Defence ties between China and the Philippines -- a longtime U.S. ally -- have grown steadily since 2004 when the two sides launched an annual security dialogue. Full Story

China rejects United States charge it hacked Pentagon

The China Post - China on Tuesday rejected a report that hackers controlled by its military had successfully entered a Pentagon network, calling the claim a product of "Cold War" thinking. Full Story

Muslim-Han clashes leave 1 dead in China

The China Post - Clashes between minority Chinese Muslims and the Han majority last month left at least one person dead and 20 injured, a Hong Kong newspaper and human rights group reported Tuesday. Full Story

Hong Kong newspaper going free

The China Post - The Standard, one of Hong Kong's two main English-language newspapers, will become a freesheet next week after a shake-up in stock market regulations cut into the daily's revenues. Full Story

Ex-Beijing vice mayor returns to politics

The China Post - A former vice mayor of China's capital Beijing who was fired during the 2003 SARS outbreak has returned to politics as acting governor of a northern province, state media reported. Full Story

Philippines wants fishing 'corridor' in China Sea

The China Post - The Philippines wants an agreement to allow free fishing in disputed waters of the South China Sea, the head of Manila's lower house of Congress said on Tuesday. Full Story

Erratic China surges past Japan

The China Post - Holders China recovered from some erratic performances to overtake Olympic gold medallists Japan in men's qualifying at the world championships on Monday. Full Story

649 firms shut down, suspended over pollution

The China Post - China's environmental watchdog has shut down or suspended 649 firms and given dozens of others a deadline to clean up their act, state media said on Tuesday amid growing concern about pollution ahead of the 2008 Olympics. Full Story

Beijing firm fined for selling pirated Hollywood movies

The China Post - A Chinese court has fined a Beijing firm for selling pirated copies of movies made by six Hollywood film studios, but rejected their demand for an apology, state media said Tuesday. Full Story

China's power growing as Bush ignores Asia: Armitage

The China Post - U.S. President George W. Bush is so preoccupied with Iraq he is neglecting Asia and allowing China to take a greater leadership role, a former senior U.S. official said in remarks published Monday. Full Story

90% of downed China officials 'had mistresses': investigators

The China Post - Chinese anti-graft investigators have found that 90 percent of the country's most senior officials brought down in corruption cases in recent years had kept mistresses, drawing a link between sex and misconduct. Full Story

Chemical leak in China sends 158 to hospital

The China Post - Nearly 160 people were treated in hospital on Monday after toxic gas escaped from a pharmaceutical factory in southwestern China and seeped into a neighbouring clothes workshop, official media reported. A porcelain tank of bromine smashed when workers in a suburb of Chongqing were trying to move it, spilling 25 kg (60 lbs) of the highly volatile liquid, the Xinhua agency said. Full Story

Manila gets US$2 mil. military aid from China

The China Post - China will give the Philippines about US$2 million worth of "non-lethal" military equipment to carry out development projects in areas where communist and Muslim rebels operate, officials said on Monday. Full Story

HIV infections soar to record high in Hong Kong

The China Post - HIV infections soared to a record high in Hong Kong in the second quarter of 2007 and government doctors said they found a worrying cluster of new infections among homosexual men. The government reported 111 new HIV infections between April and June this year, up from 91 in the first quarter. Full Story

Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape

The China Post - A Chinese teacher who raped two elementary school girls and harassed another four has been jailed for 14 years and six months, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007. Full Story

China to report military spending to United Nations

The China Post - China said Sunday it will make its military operations more transparent by giving the United Nations information about its spending and arms sales, moves that a military expert called "a significant step in the right direction." Full Story

Gere touts new film, urges Olympics boycott

The China Post - Actor Richard Gere chases a fugitive Bosnian war criminal in his latest movie role, but in real life the devout Buddhist is pursuing China on human rights abuses and says a boycott of the Beijing Olympics could help. Full Story

Hong Kong iron workers protest after talks collapse

The China Post - Hundreds of striking Hong Kong iron workers and their supporters staged a protest at the government headquarters on Sunday after their latest talks over pay and conditions collapsed. Full Story