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.
A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.
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/ 14 December 2011
Slower growth in China and the debt crisis in Europe is worrying Brazil’s huge agribusiness sector, its national Confederation of Agriculture says.
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/ 14 December 2011
The sisters of the SA woman executed in China this week say she was strapped to a chair during their last visit, and forbidden from speaking Zulu.
After signing Nicolas Anelka and rumours Shanghai Shenhua would target Didier Drogba next, the Chinese club confirmed it was looking for more players.
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/ 13 December 2011
Executions in China have halved since 2007 to 4 000 a year: cold comfort for the family of SA’s Janice Linden, who was put to death there on Monday.
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/ 12 December 2011
Despite South Africa’s pleas for clemency, China has executed Janice Bronwyn Linden from KwaZulu-Natal for smuggling drugs into the country in 2008.
Gambia’s Fatou Bensouda will be elected the ICC’s chief prosecutor as the hunt for war criminals and genocidal masterminds becomes more political.
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/ 11 December 2011
A South African woman who is due to be executed by China for drug smuggling is apparently unaware of her fate, as is the practice of the state.
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/ 9 December 2011
Online rumours are drugs that damage users and harm society, the Chinese state media has said.
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/ 7 December 2011
Chinese police have arrested 608 people suspected of selling children and freed 178 children in a crackdown on 10 provinces on child trafficking.
Twelve heads of state and 130 ministers are set to attend the high level segment of the COP17 conference to broker a new climate deal.
The Cape High Court will hear an application by the IFP and Cope about whether it was constitutional for the state to bar the Dalai Lama entry.
China says it will commit to a binding agreement on climate change, even as calls grow for the US to stop hindering negotiations and leave the talks.
The UN climate talks enter their second week amid a tangled high-level stand-off and violent clashes between protesters and official COP17 volunteers.