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/ 11 October 2011
China has criticised the Dalai Lama for not denouncing a string of self-immolations by monks protesting for religious freedom in Tibet.
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/ 10 October 2011
A Chinese official says there would be no "major" change to population control measures, cooling hopes it may ease the one-child policy.
The urbanisation of China has been happening at a dizzying speed, and shows no signs of slowing. How does the country cope?
Desmond Tutu has accused SA of putting trade ties above values, saying the government’s explanations of the Dalai Lama debacle left him more upset.
Although SA says it did not actually deny the Dalai Lama a visa, Archbishop Tutu has again slammed the state for "siding with vicious oppressors".
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says South Africa was under no pressure from China, and had planned to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
The Dalai Lama has cancelled his trip to South Africa to attend Archbishop Tutu’s birthday after the state failed to grant him a visa in time.
The state has been slammed by Cosatu for "exchanging SA’s morality for dollars or yuan", in dithering over whether to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
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/ 30 September 2011
China and Tanzania have signed a loan agreement to build a major natural gas pipeline in East Africa’s second-biggest economy, media reports say.
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/ 29 September 2011
China has taken its first step towards building a space station with the launch into orbit of its "Heavenly Palace" unmanned module.
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/ 29 September 2011
You’re not giving the Dalai Lama a visa? Again? Last time, in 2009, the excuse was that Tibet had never really fielded a convincing soccer team.
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/ 27 September 2011
Two subway trains collided in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, injuring over 200 passengers, official media reported.
Newly-elected President Michael Sata has warned an envoy that China must respect the country’s labour laws if it wants to do business in Zambia.
A meeting of emerging economies will consider a Brazilian proposal to buy European bonds to help crisis-hit eurozone countries, Pravin Gordhan says.
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/ 21 September 2011
Demand for iron ore, copper and aluminium will double in the next 15 to 20 years, driven by the Brics economies, says Rio Tinto’s chief executive.
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/ 20 September 2011
A rising concern among SA investors is the growing tension between the members of the eurozone — many of whom are major trading partners.
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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.