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.
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/ 2 December 2011
If you read the history of the development of all the great powers, it was steam then electricity generated by coal that fuelled industry and navies.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says his wife has been summoned to a police station — the latest person close to him to be taken in for questioning.
A row over a speech by the Dalai Lama has scuttled key talks between India and China as the two nations vie for power and influence in the region.
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/ 25 November 2011
South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen have been having a difficult time at the Golf World Cup in China.
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/ 25 November 2011
Recent social unrest in places like Tunisia highlights why countries should not disregard people’s desire to share in the benefits of economic growth.
China won’t take on binding emissions reduction targets at UN climate talks next week even though it acknowledges being the world’s largest emitter.
Popular artist Ai Weiwei’s naked protest of Chinese police’s interrogation of a videographer has fans stripping off.
A lack of women in China means an estimated 30-million to 50-million men will be without a wife in 20 years.
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/ 17 November 2011
Artist and fierce government critic Ai Weiwei has transformed a crippling tax fine he says is designed to silence him into a huge wave of solidarity.
Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as US President Barack Obama announces plans to begin stationing 2 500 troops in northern Australia.
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/ 15 November 2011
The IMF says China’s financial system is at risk from bad loans, booming private lending and sharp falls in property prices.
United States President Barack Obama has served notice that the US is fed up with China’s trade and currency practices.
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/ 8 November 2011
Chinese-American designer Vivienne Tam has lifted the made-in-China label out of the discount bins and onto the world’s catwalks.
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/ 8 November 2011
Under pressure from China, Mongolia has cut short a lecture tour due to be given by the Dalai Lama in the capital’s new Buyant-Ukhaa sports complex.
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/ 5 November 2011
Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface on Saturday in a rare successful rescue,.
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/ 4 November 2011
China plans to bridge the gap between rich and poor nations by urging emerging economies to make concrete emission reduction plans.
A key US senator is due to unveil a Bill that will triple US exports into Africa as China continues to expand its economic ties to the continent.
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/ 1 November 2011
A Hong Kong school has lost an appeal against a noise abatement order issued after a complaint about the daily ruckus emanating from its playground.