People's Republic of China
China is to ordain seven more bishops, amid a dispute with the Vatican.
Sources: AFP via Google News
Sources: AFP via Google News
the Vatican declares Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII canonized as saints.
Nine people die following an explosion in a coal mine in Binzhou City in China's Hunan Province.
North Korea is to establish a special economic zone on two islands close to the Chinese border.
The People's Republic of China begins its first census in ten years.
Security is boosted in Xinjiang in western China on the anniversary of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots.