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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.
A passenger plane with 96 people on board crashed in Yichun City in north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday night, it has been reported.
President Jacob Zuma met his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday for talks aimed at broadening the relationship between Beijing and SA.
President Jacob Zuma called on Tuesday for greater investment in his country from China, as SA seeks to narrow its trade deficit with Beijing.
Thousands of vehicles were bogged down on Monday in a more than 100km traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days.
South African President Jacob Zuma, struggling with sluggish growth and worker discontent at home, seeks to boost trade on Monday on a trip to China.
China overtook Japan as the world’s second-largest economy earlier this year, marking another milestone in the country’s transformation.
Robert Mugabe spent the weekend shopping for high-end suits and shoes in Hong Kong, where he owns a house and his daughter attends university.
China observed a day of mourning on Sunday for the victims of last weekend’s massive landslide, which killed more than 1 200 people.
Fresh heavy rains on Thursday brought more misery to a town in north-west China devastated by mudslides that have already killed more than 1 100.
Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides in decades.
The death toll from China’s worst mudslides in decades more than doubled to 702, officials said on Tuesday.
Rescuers armed with little more than shovels searched on Monday for hundreds of people after a torrent of mud engulfed a north-western Chinese town.
More than 80 people are dead and over 2 000 are missing after landslides triggered by heavy rain swept away homes in north-western China.
Flooding in China that has killed more than 700 people this year and inundated countless communities looks set to worsen.
China is satisfied that Google is complying with Chinese laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page.
China’s massive Three Gorges dam is facing a major test of the flood control function that was one of the key justifications for its construction.