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Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s number two reported killed

The US military says that a foreign insurgent killed in the Iraqi city of Mosul has been identified as Abu Qaswarah, al-Qaeda’s number two in Iraq.

Iraq forces hunt Shi’ite fighters in new crackdown

Iraqi police and soldiers swept house to house through the southern city of Amara on Thursday in a new crackdown on Shi’ite fighters.

China: World must do more for Africa

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday called on the world community to do more to help Africa as he opened the annual meeting of the African Development Bank in Shanghai. Debt…

China moves again to cool overheated property sector

China’s will next month increase down-payments on home loans and broaden the capital gains tax, moves analysts said on Tuesday should help cool the overheated real estate sector…

No satisfaction for Stones in China

The Rolling Stones will finally play in China this weekend after a three-decade battle to win censorship approval, but there are few frenzied fans here awaiting the arrival of…

China bars Hollywood’s Geisha

China has banned Hollywood’s Memoirs of a Geisha a week before it was due to be released over fresh speculation that the Chinese actresses’ roles as Japanese courtesans could…

China’s economy likely to be in world’s top five

China’s economy likely became one of the world’s five biggest in 2005 as booming exports and surging investment again helped secure growth of well above nine percent, analysts…

China’s race for energy resources only just heating up

China’s $2.3-billion Nigerian oil venture is a major step forward for the energy ravenous country as it seeks to power its fast-growing economy but analysts said on Tuesday the…

Love doesn’t come easy for Chinese yuppies

Harry Han was pleased with himself. In the space of a few minutes, the dapper, handsome 29-year-old had pocketed a couple of women’s phone numbers and was now coolly scanning the…

Chuffed China basks in glory of Tibetan railway

Like exhausted but triumphant climbers, pudgy Chinese officials wheezed between smiles atop Kunlun mountain pass before their oxygen-outfitted locomotive whisked them southwards…

China’s adult toy business wants to bare all

Wu Wei, president of one of China’s largest makers of adult sex toys, says it is only a matter of time before couples accept ”marital aids” as being ”just like drinking water”.…