Beijing - A convoy of cars drove through two diplomatic neighbourhoods in Beijing on Saturday to protest independence for Tibet.

Beijing  -  China's education ministry on Friday denied ordering foreign students to leave before

Beijing  - Shares on China's largest stock market lost nearly 4 per cent of their value on Friday, plunging to the lowest point for more than one year, as analysts blamed panic selling.

Hong Kong  -  A trouble-free rehearsal for the Olympic torch relay was
held in Hong Kong Friday as a survey revealed 93 per cent of the city's

Beijing  -  Volkwagen AG and SAIC Motor Corp Ltd opened a new factory Friday in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing with an annual production capacity of 60,000 cars.

Beijing  -  More than 100 monks and laypeople have been arrested in a western Chinese county in a daisy chain of arrests and demonstrations by ethnic Tibetans, a Tibetan exile group said Friday.

The protests Thursday began when 22 monks demonstrated in a Rebkong County market in Qinghai province against the arrests Sunday of three monks for participating in a peace march, said the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which has good contacts in Tibet.