Chinese Hostage

Huawei's CFO "should not be a hostage" in Sino-US relations, her lawyer said on Tuesday, after the United States announced criminal charges against herself and the Chinese firm just days before crunch trade talks with Beijing.

Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 kilometres from the nearest ocean.

Chinese President Xi Jinping today strongly condemned the killing of a Chinese hostage held by the dreaded Islamic State (IS) terror group, saying that "terrorists are the common enemy of humankind".

China vowed today to bring to justice those responsible for executing one of its citizens after Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese captive, the only known Chinese hostage to have been held by the group.

The Islamic State group said Wednesday it had killed two hostages, one Chinese and a Norwegian, as French and Russian air strikes on its Syrian stronghold reportedly left 33 fighters dead.

The Islamic State group said today it was holding a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage and asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.

The Islamic State group claimed Wednesday to be holding a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage and asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to blame for the death of a hostage at the hands of the Islamic State group, an editorial in Chinese state media said today.

Twenty-seven hostages seized by suspected militants from Boko Haram in Cameroon this year, including 10 Chinese workers, have been released, the Cameroon presidency said on Saturday.

North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom.

Hundreds of Chinese factory workers angry about strictly timed bathroom breaks and fines for starting work late held their Japanese and Chinese managers hostage for a day and a half before police broke up the strike.

A Philippine court has convicted seven Chinese men in the kidnapping of a daughter of a Taiwanese-Filipino businessman 10 years ago.The court has now sentenced each of them 40-year prison terms without parole.One of the seven who had been deported to China was sentenced-in-absentia today. Kidnap victim Rowena Jacky Tiu says she thanks God "for the ...

Huawei's CFO "should not be a hostage" in Sino-US relations, her lawyer said on Tuesday, after the United States announced criminal charges against herself and the Chinese firm just days before crunch trade talks with Beijing.

Days after China passed a new law that for the first time permits its military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations, its marines began exercises in the western deserts of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 kilometres from the nearest ocean.

Chinese President Xi Jinping today strongly condemned the killing of a Chinese hostage held by the dreaded Islamic State (IS) terror group, saying that "terrorists are the common enemy of humankind".

China vowed today to bring to justice those responsible for executing one of its citizens after Islamic State said it had killed a Chinese captive, the only known Chinese hostage to have been held by the group.

The Islamic State group said Wednesday it had killed two hostages, one Chinese and a Norwegian, as French and Russian air strikes on its Syrian stronghold reportedly left 33 fighters dead.

The Islamic State group said today it was holding a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage and asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.

The Islamic State group claimed Wednesday to be holding a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage and asked for an unspecified ransom for their release.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to blame for the death of a hostage at the hands of the Islamic State group, an editorial in Chinese state media said today.

Twenty-seven hostages seized by suspected militants from Boko Haram in Cameroon this year, including 10 Chinese workers, have been released, the Cameroon presidency said on Saturday.

North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom.

Hundreds of Chinese factory workers angry about strictly timed bathroom breaks and fines for starting work late held their Japanese and Chinese managers hostage for a day and a half before police broke up the strike.

A Philippine court has convicted seven Chinese men in the kidnapping of a daughter of a Taiwanese-Filipino businessman 10 years ago.The court has now sentenced each of them 40-year prison terms without parole.One of the seven who had been deported to China was sentenced-in-absentia today. Kidnap victim Rowena Jacky Tiu says she thanks God "for the ...