Five of the 11 detainees China has agreed to release are South Africans, according to the NGO Gift of the Givers. The other six are British.
Ten South Africans were detained, along with nine Britons and one Indian, says local charity Gift of the Givers.
The steepest rally since 2009 on Thursday showed the markets are finally responding to the government’s multipronged effort to halt the slide.
Global investors fear that China’s market turmoil will destabilise the financial system, and be a bigger risk than the crisis in Greece.
China’s tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout.
Countries are trade partners with a shared goal of challenging US hegemony, but disputes and competing interests make the relationship more complex.
It may not be fast, quiet or comfortable but the trip from Shixi to Huangcun is special for tourists and essential for residents.
The travel giant is looking to the world’s top tourist market to turn around its ailing fortunes.
Online retail giant Alibaba is launching MYbank, an online lender, and Chinese banks are pushing back with online malls.
China and Russia signed an agreement last month not to carry out cyber-attacks on each other. Looks like no one told China’s biggest arms maker.
A Chinese state-owned newspaper has warned the US that their continued resistance to the building of artificial islands will lead to a full-blown war.
China appears to be taking criticism of its relationship with African countries to heart and is reviewing its approach to investment and development.
The mainland’s control of bookshops and media outlets has led to soft censorship and restrictions on what people can read in Hong Kong.
It turns out defaults in China aren’t such a bad thing for financial markets after all.
Trainees from "major role players" in the industry set to learn about nuclear power plant engineering, procurement, maintenance and other subjects
The Chinese government has developed a new tool to prevent its citizens from accessing the internet freely.
The valuations of China’s technology stocks have soared to an average of 220 times reported profits.
The introduction of a subsidy by the world’s largest steelmaker may further hurt prices that fell to a 10-year low last week.
Economic decisions by Athens’s leader may push Greeks to vote for the neo-fascist Golden Dawn.
The Chinese government tried to take on thriving online marketplace Alibaba, but owner Jack Ma beat the regulators at their own game.
China is violating human rights at an intensity that is unprecedented in its recent history, a top watchdog group said on Thursday.
A Chinese state-owned newspaper says the West is facing the consequences for slavery and colonialism, following the attack on "Charlie Hebdo".
At least 35 people were killed and 48 injured, according to city officials, during Shanghai’s New Year celebration at the Bund.
2014 will be remembered as the year politicians defeated climate scientists and solidified weak climate change targets, writes Sipho Kings.
The issue dominates debates, but for different reasons, from the far right making political capital to border guards pushing migrant boats back.
China says there is no proof North Korea was behind the Sony cyber attack, and Pyongyang says it will retaliate against the US mainland if need be.
HW Raid Security Pty.Ltd has launched the first Chinese security joint venture in South Africa.
The UN climate talks in Lima, Peru, head for weakened deals in Lima on limiting global warming as meetings continue for an extra day.
China is holding a day of remembrance, the first of its kind, for the thousands of people killed during the Nanjing massacre in 1937.
President Xi Jinping has overseen a sweeping tightening of controls as part of a broader campaign against anyone seen challenging the ruling party.
With the government and business casting their gaze ever eastwards, South Africans are being urged to familiarise themselves with Chinese culture.
China and the US will sign a deal that will ensure negotiations on targets for climate change are agreed on at next year’s climate talks in Paris.