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/ 15 December 2010
Foreign direct investment in China rose 38,17% year-on-year in November despite efforts to control inflation and stem the flow of liquidity.
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/ 14 December 2010
Expect market-led growth in dynamic emerging markets, while mature markets recover from their recessionary hangovers.
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/ 13 December 2010
Shanghai plans to be Asia’s top stock market by 2013 and launch 24-hour trading by the end of the decade.
A Chinese group awarded its own "peace prize" on Thursday, just a day before the Nobel Committee was set to honour jailed China dissident Liu Xiaobo.
China has invented its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize, the "Confucius Peace Prize" and will bestow it a day before the Nobel.
China unleashed a fresh diatribe on Tuesday ahead of the ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 7 December 2010
The US, South Korea and Japan all urged China to help rein in its ally North Korea and vowed solidarity in defending Seoul from any further attacks.
China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding United Nations resolution.
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/ 6 December 2010
WikiLeaks reveals the fear of African embassy officials that US-China relations might hamper Chinese funding to the region.
Japanese, South Korean and United States foreign ministers meet on Monday to plot strategy towards an increasingly provocative North Korea.
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/ 5 December 2010
World climate talks in Cancún enter their final stretch with fears of a repeat of the failures that nearly wrecked the 2009 Copenhagen summit.
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/ 5 December 2010
At least six people were killed and 38 injured when an explosion hit an internet cafe in southwest China on Saturday evening, state media reported.
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
China said it was difficult to maintain "friendly relations" with Norway, following the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Peace Prize to
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/ 25 November 2010
China said that Vatican opposition to the official Chinese Catholic body’s ordination of a bishop amount to a violation of freedom of religion.
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/ 25 November 2010
China has made global headlines for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of CO2, but have announced plans towards "green" technology.
China expressed concern on Thursday about South Korea’s planned joint military exercise with the United States.
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/ 23 November 2010
China acknowledged on Tuesday it is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, confirming what scientists have said for years.
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/ 22 November 2010
Authorities in central China are searching for a batch of dairy products containing high levels of melamine, the chemical that killed six babies in 20
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/ 19 November 2010
Chinese electronics maker Foxconn, a key manufacturer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, has been hit by a new staff dispute.
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/ 19 November 2010
South Africa given a $20-billion credit line for energy development, but there’s a quid pro quo.
<b>Michael Jones</b> writes about the world’s factory capital, Beijing.
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/ 18 November 2010
China is now the only country to detain a Nobel Peace Prize laureate after Burma released Aung San Suu Kyi.
China’s government announced food subsidies for poor families on Wednesday as it tries to cool a double-digit surge in prices that communist leaders worry might stir unrest. The Cabinet promised to ease shortages of vegetables and grain that helped push up food prices by more than 10% in October. It promised more supplies of diesel […]
Asian Games officials took urgent action on Monday to get more people into the stands, making an additional 400 000 tickets available for sale.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged China to work closely with the G20 and introduce greater political freedoms.
China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 8 November 2010
Supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei gathered for a party at his condemned studio in Shanghai on Sunday, as he remained under house arrest.
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/ 3 November 2010
Lee Westwood’s ousting of American superstar Tiger Woods as world number one has injected new excitement into a suddenly wide-open golf landscape.
The Chinese telecom firm’s dedicated training
centre in Johannesburg is the envy of many.
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/ 25 October 2010
Few, if any, African states have congratulated Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 winner of the Nobel peace prize.
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/ 22 October 2010
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech president Vaclav Havel joined forces in urging China to free jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.