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.
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/ 18 October 2010
The head of theIMF has warned central bankers the global recovery would be "in peril" if the world’s major economies do not keep working together.
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/ 18 October 2010
China’s rise was never going to be entirely peaceful. But recent disputes have shown that the forces that drive China remain poorly understood.
Anxious relatives of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in China have gathered outside the site as rescuers fight to reach the workers.
Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China, after 21 were killed.
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/ 16 October 2010
A coal mine accident in China has killed 20 miners and left another 17 missing underground, amid fresh concerns over the country’s lethal mines.
China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize.
Guangzhou’s hardline tactics towards African traders is bad for business, lethal for individuals.
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/ 12 October 2010
The US embassy in Beijing urged China on Tuesday to lift any restrictions on the wife of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 11 October 2010
Once SA was the kind of country whose leaders were awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. Now we side with governments who crack down on those who get them.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China’s rise, state media said on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2010
More than 30 Chinese intellectuals have been detained or placed under house arrest in a crackdown to stifle celebration of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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/ 10 October 2010
When a huge mudslide swamped a Chinese town in August, word first reached the world thanks to a digital camera-wielding micro-blogger.
The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize provoked a furious reaction from authorities, who warned that the decision would hurt relations with Norway.
China’s band dissidents believe awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their own could bring change to the world’s most populous country.
The UN climate change chief urged governments on Monday to make real steps towards a new treaty to fight global warming.
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/ 30 September 2010
It was a bold, even desperate attempt by China’s leaders to cut the shocking death toll in its pits: send the bosses down the shaft with the miners.