Apple has won round one of a trademark case against it after a Shanghai court ruled its iPads could still be sold in the city.
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/ 14 February 2012
China concedes that it needs to work together with the EU to solve Europe’s debt crisis.
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/ 14 February 2012
A Chinese envoy has met the head of the Arab league as the country tries to repair relations damaged by its veto of a UN resolution on Syria.
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/ 11 February 2012
Chinese bank lending fell 28% in January from a year earlier, suggesting Beijing is reluctant to open the credit valves too quickly.
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/ 10 February 2012
United States sanctions on Iranian oil exports set to impact local refiners.
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/ 8 February 2012
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s visit to the US next week could set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president.
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/ 7 February 2012
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped in South Sudan 11 days ago by rebels have been freed and flown to Kenya.
The year ahead may yet prove a tough time for commodities, but the outlook from the 2012 Mining Indaba is cautiously optimistic, thanks to China.
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/ 5 February 2012
China has become Iran’s top trading partner as the sanctions against the Islamic republic have become progressively tougher.
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/ 5 February 2012
Russia and China have blocked a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria, hours after the country’s forces bombed Homs, killing hundreds.
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/ 3 February 2012
Zuma looking to China for infrastructure development.
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/ 2 February 2012
China will press South Sudan for help in securing the release of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels and may ask the AU to mediate in negotiations.
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/ 2 February 2012
China says Tibetans shot dead by police during the worst unrest to hit the conflicted Sichuan region since 2008 were part of a separatist plot.
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/ 27 January 2012
China making huge strides in using green energy but coal consumption continues to increase.
Residents of a south China town have been panic buying bottled water after media reports of excessive levels of the carcinogenic metal cadmium.
Chinese forces have fired tear gas to break up a protest by Tibetans in the province of Sichuan, the latest flare-up of volatile unrest there.
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/ 22 January 2012
Taiwan’s fraud cases fell 26% in 2010 from the previous year after the island joined hands with China to fight crime, the government said.
Gill Marcus keeps rates on hold.
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/ 17 January 2012
The all-share index has hit an all-time high as commodity firms ticked higher, tracking gains in global equities after positive China growth data.
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/ 17 January 2012
Scientists have called for measures to prevent the circulation of counterfeit and substandard malaria medicines that threaten millions of lives.
Pregnant women were among more than 1 500 protesters who took to Hong Kong’s streets to oppose the growing number of Chinese births in the city.
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/ 11 January 2012
The US was told not to interfere in China’s affairs after it voiced concern over the spate of self-immolations by Tibetan monks in the area.
A Tibetan monk has died after setting himself alight in protest against the Chinese government’s lack of religious freedom in the region.
An already frail economy will come under more pressure when the EU ban comes into effect.
There is no doubt the Ibsa forum was one of the seminal diplomatic achievements of the Thabo Mbeki presidency.
International collectors have spawned a ruthless industry that cares little for a precious history.
Keynes suggested a means to restoring equilibrium between nations after the Great Depression and it may be an idea whose time has come.
A haze expert has warned that despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution in urban China, dangerous smog will persist for decades.
Bulldozers and dynamite are being used to strip priceless artefacts from remote sites, with booty sold on to wealthy collectors.
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/ 20 December 2011
China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region.
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/ 19 December 2011
With a fix to the eurozone crisis "technically, politically beyond reach", China’s economy slowing and SA struggling, markets remain deeply unsettled.
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/ 15 December 2011
Chinese villagers have called on their government to intervene in a bloody land dispute that has claimed at least one life so far.