The officials’ firing is the latest sign that Beijing authorities are holding party members accountable for their handling of environmental and work safety disasters.

Interspersing sports and diplomacy in dizzying ways, President Bush met on Sunday President Hu Jintao.

Carla Sarkozy will meet with the exiled Tibetan leader in southern France on Aug. 22. The French president would meet the Dalai Lama before the end of the year.

Carla Sarkozy will meet with the exiled Tibetan leader in southern France on Aug. 22. The French president would meet the Dalai Lama before the end of the year.

Carla Sarkozy will meet with the exiled Tibetan leader in southern France on Aug. 22. The French president would meet the Dalai Lama before the end of the year.

President Hu Jintao?s press conference on Friday was the first he has held in Beijing in the six years he has served as China?s top leader.

China?s ambassador to France warned of ?serious consequences? for Chinese-French relations if the French president meets with the Dalai Lama next month.

China?s ambassador to France warned of ?serious consequences? for Chinese-French relations if the French president meets with the Dalai Lama next month.

Two United States congressmen were barred by Chinese security officials from meeting with a group of Chinese human rights lawyers.

President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan called on Wednesday for a rapid expansion of economic relations between Taiwan and mainland China over the next year or two.