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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.
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/ 30 September 2010
China’s top chemicals company Sinochem is working hard to come up with a plan challenge to BHP Billiton’s $39-billion bid for Potash Corp.
No TV. No internet. No air conditioning. Traffic lights off. Hospitals deprived of electricity.
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/ 28 September 2010
China told Japan on Tuesday to stop interfering with Chinese fishery protection vessels operating in seas claimed by both countries.
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/ 25 September 2010
China on Saturday demanded Japan apologise for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing few outward signs of softening in a dispute.
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/ 24 September 2010
Japan was to release a Chinese trawler captain on Friday at the heart of a fierce territorial row with China.
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/ 21 September 2010
China on Tuesday ruled out prospects for fence-mending talks between its premier and Japan’s leader this week.
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/ 19 September 2010
China suspended high-level exchanges with Japan on Sunday and promised countermeasures after a court extended the detention of a Chinese captain.
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/ 13 September 2010
Japan on Monday freed the crew of a Chinese fishing boat held in disputed waters, but held on to the captain at the centre of a territorial rift.
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/ 12 September 2010
China’s top-ranked diplomat intensified pressure on Japan on Sunday, warning Tokyo against making "misjudgements" over the seizure of a fishing boat.
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/ 1 September 2010
Microsoft has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google.
More than 4 200 people have died or are missing in floods in China so far this year, the government said on Tuesday.
The gritty reality is that Zuma will return to the messy business of running a democracy.
ANC leaders are briefed on workings of the communist party and the government on visits to China.
China kept silent on Friday about a reported visit by North Korea’s Kim Jong-il that appears intended to line up Beijing behind succession plans.
SA has defended China’s investment in Africa, saying Beijing was not pursuing a neocolonial policy and that its growing interest was positive.
President Jacob Zuma met Hu Jintao in Beijing on Tuesday for talks aimed at broadening the relationship between Beijing and Africa’s biggest economy.