Hong Kong - Students and politicians in Hong Kong Tuesday hit out at comments by movie star Jackie Chan that Chinese people should be controlled and that too much freedom could harm China.

The Rush-Hour star sparked a growing controversy by saying at a business forum Saturday that freedoms had made Hong Kong and Taiwan "chaotic" and adding: "We Chinese need to be controlled."

Beijing - More than one year after anti-Chinese protests rocked the Tibetan capital Lhasa, Chinese authorities sentenced three Tibetans to death for arson, the official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.

Two others were each sentenced to 10 years in prison by a municipal court in Lhasa for involvement in fires that killed six people in March 2008.

The death sentences were suspended for two years, after which it is possible for them to be converted into life-in-prison sentences.

Beijing, Apr. 21 : China has disavowed any kind of cooperation with the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in nuclear energy development, and urged a peaceful solution to the DPRK nuclear disputes.

"China has never had any cooperation with the DPRK in nuclear energy development," the Xinhua news agency quoted Wang Yiren, the head of the China''s Atomic Energy Authority, as telling reporters at a nuclear energy conference in Beijing on Monday.

New Delhi, Apr 21 : China will display its nuclear-powered submarines for the first time in history during a fleet parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

The Chinese navy's missile destroyer 115 Shenyang is docked at Qingdao Port for an international fleet review.

Deputy Commander of the PLA Navy Ding Yiping did not disclose any further details about the submarines.

Beijing - The UN's international nuclear watchdog warned Monday of ageing nuclear facilities and a lack of oversight of nuclear installations.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said at the opening of a two-day conference on nuclear energy in Beijing that security at nuclear reactors was much better today than 10 years ago "but we still have vulnerabilities in safety as well as in security, even in countries with significant nuclear programmes."

Beijing - Members of a German parliamentary delegation allowed to visit Tibet said Monday that they were constantly escorted by Chinese minders during their trip and said it was deeply one-sided.

Holgar Haibach, the head of the four-member delegation from the human rights committee of the German Bundestag, said many of the group's questions were not answered and their minders in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, wanted to give the Germans the impression that all was normal in Tibet.