China’s new president Xi Jinping will be under pressure to tackle growing inequality and pervasive corruption.
China’s next manned space mission will launch between June and August, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, says a report.
Chinese telecoms equipment group Huawei has presented a device it claims can download high definition films in minutes and songs in seconds.
Hacking could be used as an excuse to police the internet more but we need online openness to expose wrongdoing, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Accusations by a US computer company that a secretive Chinese military unit is likely behind a series of hacking attacks are unreliable, says China.
China’s anti-doping head has said he was "shocked" after an anti-doping agency alleged the country produces large amounts of illegal substances.
Official figures show that the United States no longer dominates trading in goods.
Large investment from state-owned firms may overwhelm Zimbabwe’s traditional trading partner, South Africa.
A Chinese-language class at the University of Zimbabwe is attracting everyone from government bureaucrats to small-time traders.
The rivalry between China and India for control of Zimbabwe’s mineral resources has intensified, writes Ray Ndlovu.
A legal review has concluded that the US president can order pre-emptive cyberstrikes if the country finds evidence of a digital attack against it.
Just because the Chinese and Conde Nast Traveler ignore Chongqing doesn’t mean the traveller should. Richard Poplak gets numb and spicy.
Dams on the Salween River could damage ecosystems, displace people and lead to potentially catastrophic seismic events, warn environmental groups.
The Chinese model of state-led development has garnered wide support from a number of African governments, but it comes with governance-related risks.
Drones have taken centre stage in an escalating arms race between China and Japan, who are struggle to assert their dominance over disputed islands.
A Chinese newspaper at the centre of public protests about government censorship will publish as usual following reports of a deal to end the row.
Protesters have mounted a second day of rallies calling for press freedom in China, as netizens and celebrities backed the campaign.
Hundreds of people have demonstrated in support of media freedom in China outside the offices of a newspaper at the centre of a censorship row.
Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.
Holidaying in the People’s Republic has changed beyond recognition now that the new Chinese middle classes have learned to love it.
Presents come at a price — and not at the prices declared by the politicians who received them, writes Nelly Shamase.
Vice-president Xi Jinping has been appointed chief of China’s military.
China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
Former China president Jiang Zemin has worked assiduously to make sure his influence will be felt throughout the next leadership.
As China prepares for its leadership transition, state media has hailed a "golden decade" under the incumbents.
A change in leadership in the United States and China – the world’s two biggest economies – will see a transformation in fiscal and monetary policies.
With social problems spreading in China, a younger generation may be ready to question Communist party policy.
We’re Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak, and for the last two years we’ve been traversing Africa, attempting to uncover the forces that are reshaping it.
An edited extract from Anton Harber’s e-book sheds light on Naspers boss, Koos Bekker.
As part of their Africa 3.0 project, Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom explore ‘Chocolate City’, a bustling community of African traders in Guangzhou, China.
Although the Brics offers advantages, it will not always make sense to go along with its decisions, say Peter Draper and Catherine Grant.
Another Tibetan has set himself on fire while shouting slogans calling for the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet, a London-based rights group has said.