China's Ambassador to Greece Luo Linquan (罗林泉) has said that China has helped 1,100 foreigners (ie., non-Chinese) leave Libya in its biggest ever evacuation exercise overseas. more ›

As violence continues to escalate across Libya (read one of the first dispatches to come out of the capital Tripoli here), thousands have begun fleeing the country. Reports have surfaced of repeated attacks on Chinese construction and oil sites, some confirmed, but news coming out of the country is sporadic at best. Over 30,000 Chinese citizens work and live in Libya, where China's estimated bilateral trade is over $6.6 billion. Here are the latest updates from the China side: more ›

Three activists from Paris-based press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders, including its secretary-general Robert Ménard, managed to disrupt yesterday's Olympic flame ceremony by unfurling a banner showing the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs in the middle of a speech by Mr Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organising committee and Beijing Communist Party Secretary. The banner included the slogan, "'Boycott the country that tramples on human rights". more ›