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/ 29 February 2012
A new scheme has been created with the hope it will cool popular anger over high housing prices in China — but the numbers don’t add up enough.
China’s band dissidents believe awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their own could bring change to the world’s most populous country.
A magnitude 6,9 earthquake on Wednesday killed about 300 people in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau in south-west China.
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/ 23 December 2009
It was called ”the gentleman’s C”, the grade that scions of wealthy families could achieve while waltzing through university with a minimum of study.
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/ 22 December 2009
China has issued new internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a ”whitelist” of approved websites.
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/ 4 November 2009
Chinese investors in Africa, long used to low-interest policy loans, are being reluctantly pushed towards commercial lending.
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/ 4 September 2009
Security forces used tear gas to break up protests on Friday, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security after a spate of syringe attacks.
China denounced a proposed trip to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama on Thursday, saying any such visit threatened to ”sabotage” improving relations.
Australia summoned China’s ambassador on Monday for a second time to press for details of the detention of Rio Tinto’s top iron ore salesperson.
Access to popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon.