BEIJING, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Communist Party officials have fired a senior Chinese banker for taking bribes, party officials in Beijing said Wednesday.

BEIJING, July 4 (UPI) -- The inaugural cross-Taiwan Strait charter flight from mainland China to Taiwan made history when it landed at at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Friday.

TOKYO, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, sparking immediate protests from China and South Korea.

BEIJING, June 16 (UPI) -- A Chinese law lecturer and writer whose books were seized by the Chinese government is suing the state for censorship.

TOKYO, April 11 (UPI) -- Anti-Japanese protests in China continued over the weekend with a demonstration Sunday by about 3,000 protesters in Guangzhou.

GUANGZHOU, China, April 10 (UPI) -- After some 3,000 Chinese people demonstrated against Japan in Guangzhou, China, Japan lodged a formal protest Sunday.

BEIJING, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The Chinese government has banned media reports on "public intellectuals," or scholars who dare to take a public position on political and social affairs.

BEIJING, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- China's new ambassador to Japan says there are serious political barriers to improved relations between the two countries.

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- China Daily reports ministerial meetings between China and Vietnam on implementing a border agreement on the Gulf of Tonkin.