<div id="subtitle">Reports: Villagers in central China clash with police after land dispute leaves 1 dead</div><div><p>More than 1,000 villagers clashed with police in central China following a land dispute with construction workers that left one person dead, reports said Thursday.</p><p&gt ...

<div><p>The family of missing Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize, has defected to the United States, rights activists said Thursday.</p><p>New York-based Human Rights in China and Radio Free Asia said Gao's wife and children arrived in the United ...

<div><p>The head of an Egyptian firm which is launching a mobile phone service in North Korea arrived Monday in the capital Pyongyang, official media in the secretive communist state reported.</p><p>The Orascom Telecom Holding delegation is headed by its chairman and CEO Naguib Sawiris, the Korean Central News ...

<div><p>A mobile phone service will be launched this month in North Korea but it is unclear who will be allowed to use it in the secretive communist state, a news report said Thursday.</p><p>The service is due to begin in Pyongyang on December 10, US broadcaster Radio Free ...