China 'will catch slave owners'
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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A trial has begun of 12 people accused of involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.
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Negotiations are under way for the release of two Chinese kidnapped in Pakistan and threatened with death, Pakistani and Chinese media said Monday.
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China has arrested two labor bureau officials for their alleged links to slave labor in brick kilns, amid reports Friday that kiln bosses were hiding child laborers and charging ransoms for their release.
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Pakistan Times Special Correspondent. TAANK (South Waziristan): Amid a Cabinet directive on Wednesday to amplify efforts for instant release of the two Chinese engineers, caged by al-Qaeda
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China will next week try a blind human rights activist whose previous controversial conviction was overturned, his lawyer said on Wednesday, voicing fears the new trial will not hear claims that testimony was obtained through police torture.
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Imperial Qing dynasty tombs near  Beijing which date back more than 300 years are under threat  from illegal mining, Xinhua news agency reported.
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China said on Tuesday it was looking into allegations that Chinese factories used children to produce merchandising for next year's Beijing Olympics.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday was bringing his eight-nation African tour to Zambia, a copper-rich country where China's growing clout has prompted charges of exploitation and emerged as a volatile political issue.
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China is stepping up its hard line against internet pornography by threatening life imprisonment for anyoner caught peddling porn.
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Beijing has hinted that if the United States releases any Guantanamo Bay detainees from its restive Muslim far west Xinjiang region, they should be handed over to Beijing and not sent to a third country.
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China is to launch a nationwide survey of people who sold their blood in the 1990s as it tries to track down HIV/AIDS victims, state television said on Wednesday.
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China will consider adopting measures to protect its interests and those of its trading partners once global textile quotas are scrapped at the end of this month, a government spokesman said on Friday.
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China says it is taking "all measures" to secure the release of eight nationals abducted in Iraq.
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Imperial Qing dynasty tombs near Beijing which date back more than 300 years are under threat from illegal mining, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Chinese Communist leaders are to hold a key meeting amid fears that corruption is undermining their rule.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Militants holding two Chinese engineers in a rugged tribal area near the Afghan border have threatened to kill them unless Pakistan releases Al-Qaeda detainees, a security official said.