Search engine giant Google is to send a representative to China next week to talk with the country's copyright watchdog to cool down Chinese authors' heated complaints against the company over copyright violations, said a Google senior executive Sunday.

Chinese netizens have prepared thousands of questions for U.S. President Barack Obama during his Nov. 15-18 visit to China, covering a wide range of topics from Sino-U.S. relations to U.S. first lady Michelle Obama.

China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong said.

Followers of a church in China were forced by the government to again find a new place to worship Sunday, a move one analyst suggested would be a test for President Barack Obama on religious freedom during his first visit to the country.

A retired diplomat of the People's Republic of China (PRC) expressed strong feelings in Taipei Saturday regarding the improving relations between Taiwan and China, saying that after 60 years of standoff, both sides of the Taiwan Strait have finally become one family.

To boost sales of Taiwanese goods in China's Nanjing City, a key Taiwan trade promoter on Saturday signed an agreement with the Nanjing City government to set up a Taiwan Brand Street and a Taiwanese goods center in the historic capital city in China's Jiangsu Province, officials said.

China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.

Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.

China can become the world's top exporter of “green technology” if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Friday for an end to “unreasonable” trade restrictions on developing countries, just days ahead of a U.S. presidential visit to his country that has been clouded by economic tensions.