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/ 19 September 2011
The Brics emerging market powerhouses have already bought debt through the European Financial Stability Facility, says a Brazilian financial daily.
345 000 people are being relocated in a desperate bid to ease Beijing’s drought crisis by transfusing water from the Yangtze basin
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/ 16 September 2011
A stream of warnings in state media has exposed how nervous Beijing is about microblogs and their potential to tear at the seams of party censorship.
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/ 15 September 2011
Inflation expectations among urban Chinese rose in the third quarter and most think consumer prices unacceptably high, a central bank survey showed.
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/ 9 September 2011
The Chinese interest in South Africa has resulted
in policy challenges. But the true state of relations
is the stuff of folktales.
A Chinese tax on moon cakes — exchanged at this time of year in a symbolic tribute to the full moon — has left a bad taste in the mouths of many.
Attacks apparently planned by Uighur militants to coincide with a visit to the Xinjiang region by Pakistan’s president have been thwarted, China says.
Some bosses in China demand that their employees consume alcohol on the job.
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says China’s justice system cannot be trusted, in an article for a foreign magazine.
China is considering changes to its criminal law that human rights activists say would effectively legalise the forced disappearance of dissidents.
According to some estimates, a third of China’s population — about 429-million — are overweight or obese.
Tyre-makers have fought a six-year battle against what they claim is dumping from China.
China will appeal a World Trade Organisation rejection of its curbs on exports of industrial raw materials, the government has said.
US Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday rejected views that American power is waning and said Washington would never default on its debt.
Strong economic growth, increased government spending on education and the one-child policy have made gifted young women increasingly common in China.
China’s second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons.
Questioning of the artist focused on the proposed "Jasmine Revolution" protests in China in February and writings that could constitute subversion.
The new version of the iPhone has already hit the Chinese market — the fake market that is — and is selling for as little as $31.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi pledged his country’s ongoing support for Sudan, "whatever … the internal and external changes".
Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard scholar, has taken office as head of the Tibetan government in exile, vowing to free his homeland from Chinese "colonialism.
The United States’ biggest creditor, China, bluntly criticised the superpower one day after the superpower’s credit rating was downgraded.
China has said it was paying "close attention" to a disastrous famine in the Horn of Africa after top US House Democrat urged it to do more.
China’s media are curbing combative reporting of a train disaster after what observers said were orders from the Communist Party’s propaganda arm.
Angry families of people killed in last weekend’s train crash in eastern China gathered to mourn on Friday, directing ire at the Railways Ministry for
China’s rail minister, facing public outrage over Saturday’s deadly train crash, has ordered a two-month safety review of railway operations.
Chinese officials in Kunming have ordered two fake Apple shops to close because the stores did not have official business permits.
Rescue workers on Sunday dug through the tangled wreckage after a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in eastern China.
One of the most important areas where China is set to play a bigger role is in the construction and infrastructure sectors in Africa.
With handshakes and smiles, China showed off the friendly face of its most high profile military unit to foreign journalists on Thursday.
The International Monetary Fund says it remains concerned with the potential for a property price bubble in China
China, a country known for its rampant piracy, has now reached a new milestone — fake Apple stores.
A worker fell to his death at Foxconn Technology Group’s manufacturing plant in southern China, local media reported on Wednesday.