By MARK MACKINNON, Toronto Globe and Mail
China's one-dog policy spawns plots to hide extra pups
GUANGZHOU, China - For decades, China's citizens have lived with the controversial one-child regime imposed on them by the government. Now, pet lovers in this southern factory city are frothing over the latest official intrusion into their lives: a one-dog policy.
China equates Tibetan traditions with U.S. slavery
BEIJING - Was Mao Zedong the Abraham Lincoln of China?
In an attempt to convince President Barack Obama of its claim to Tibet, the Chinese government has likened the 1959 Communist takeover of the area to the American Civil War, inferring that Mao freed Tibetans from slavery much as Lincoln ended slavery in the United States.
China's citizens in a shove-hate relationship
China has never been a patient, wait-in-line kind of place.
The history of the vast and populous nation is a tale of chaos repeatedly triumphing over calm, order over disorder. On many occasions -- the Boxer Rebellion, the Cultural Revolution, the subway each day at rush hour -- things have degenerated into mob rule.
But that, Shu Xiaofeng swears, was the old China.
Former South Korean president leaves suicide note
In 14 terse lines, saved on his hard drive in a file named "Many have suffered too much because of me," former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun tried to explain why he would kill himself a few hours later.
High-stakes showdown with North Korea looming
North Korea is preparing to launch a missile designed to reach as far as the west coast of Canada or the United States, while leader Kim Jong-il praises his country as an invulnerable "socialist fortress."
Japan's jobless forced to sleep in Internet cafes
It is 6 o'clock on a Thursday night when the casualties of Japan's latest economic collapse start to arrive at the Manga Internet cafe.
China stakes its future on ambitious growth targets
Striking an unusually stark tone for a gathering of the country's rubber-stamp parliament, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warned last week that China is facing a year of "unprecedented difficulties and challenges" that could spark social unrest if ambitious growth targets aren't met.
The earth moves, and a village moves on
When the earth shook last May, Jiang Lucheng's wife of 25 years and their infant grandson were buried in the rubble of their home. At 55 years old, and no longer able to work because of a leg injury he suffered during the quake, Jiang felt his life was over.
The earth moves, and a village moves on
When the earth shook last May, Jiang Lucheng's wife of 25 years and their infant grandson were buried in the rubble of their home. At 55 years old, and no longer able to work because of a leg injury he suffered during the quake, Jiang felt his life was over.
The earth moves, and a village moves on
When the earth shook last May, Jiang Lucheng's wife of 25 years and their infant grandson were buried in the rubble of their home. At 55 years old, and no longer able to work because of a leg injury he suffered during the quake, Jiang felt his life was over.

