Beijing faces international scrutiny after rights activists point to continued detentions and deaths.

Beijing faces international scrutiny after rights activists point to continued detentions and deaths.

Online security researchers say Beijing has launched major cyber strikes against American IT giants eyeing its market.

While hosting the World Internet Conference, China tries Tiananmen activist for leaking ‘state secrets’ to US website.
![Wang Xiaochu, chairman of China Telecom, attending the first World Internet Conference in Wuzhen [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141121125112240734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Astronomers have captured images of primordial galaxies that helped light up the cosmos after the Big Bang.
![Cluster MACSJ0647, shown here, acts as a super-massive zoom lens on ancient remote galaxies [NASA/Dan Coe]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014111854810485734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Chinese scientists are designing a particle-smashing collider so massive it could encircle a city.
![China's proposed supercollider plans to be twice the size of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014919134429520734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As China reneges on pledged free elections, Tiananmen-style democracy movement spreads out across Hong Kong.
![Students and young professionals have planned mass protests in the upcoming days [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014913113933868734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
China still uses labour camps to silence democracy activists and others it considers malcontents.
![Human Rights Watch says people detained in China often are tried and sentenced solely by police forces [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20147205446435734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Discovery of earliest Buddhist temple in Nepal could transform the country into a ‘zone of peace’.
![Buddha's birthplace, believed to be in Nepal, marks the origin of Buddhism [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131210124118281734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Wang Keping, a provocative artist critical of China’s government, has opened his first solo exhibition in Beijing.
![Wang Keping's artwork has often been critical of Mao Zedong, a taboo in China [Kevin Holden/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2013117122313913734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Remains of 40,000-year-old Homo sapien help scientists map first human migration routes out of Africa.
