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.
Chinese websites that provide Twitter-like services have suddenly reverted to testing mode and access has been spotty amid reports of a clampdown.
Google’s deal with Beijing to end a censorship dispute removes one irritant in US-China relations, but the two countries still face deep divisions.
Security forces fanned out in China’s Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of unrest that exposed ethnic tensions in the Xinjiang region.
Outward normality has returned to Lhasa. But, more than two years after ethnic violence erupted there, residents still talk of fear and suspicion.
Hundreds of rescuers struggled in treacherous conditions on Tuesday to find 106 people buried in a landslide in south-west China.
But regulations, governance and corruption all
pose challenges.
Award-winning conservationist and philanthropist Karma Samdrup tells court of beatings during interrogation.
Torrential rains battering south and central China have left 175 people dead and forced the evacuation of 1,7-million.
Huge floods in southern China have killed at least 132 people and displaced 800 000 others as the annual storm season picked up ferocity.
The vuvuzelas providing the ear-splitting soundtrack for the Soccer World Cup in South Africa are proving a gold mine for manufacturers in China.
Tibetans are rebuilding their livelihoods with one of the world’s most ghoulish parasites — the caterpillar fungus.
An armed gang stole money and a camera from four Chinese journalists in South Africa for the Soccer World Cup, Chinese media reported on Thursday.
For the first time the government in Beijing has put a hefty value on its forest ecosystems.
The death toll from flooding and landslides in southern China climbed to 38 on Thursday, state media reported.
Premier Wen Jiabao took said this week that any clash could have serious reverberations for the region, not least his own country.
A top Chinese commerce official has defended Beijing’s investment policies in Africa, as a giant deal was announced for a cement plant in SA.
The China Development Bank (CDB) on Tuesday offered to provide $1-billion for a planned hydroelectric station in Zambia.
Shanghai opened its multibillion-dollar World Expo to the public on Saturday, showcasing China’s booming economy and resurgent national pride.
A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in China, the fourth such stabbing case in recent weeks.
China has lifted a two-decade ban on people with HIV/Aids from entering the country, just as it is about to welcome the world to the Shanghai Expo.
China observed a day of national mourning on Wednesday for victims of its killer quake, with newspaper front pages bathed in black.
China will on Wednesday hold a national day of mourning for victims of an earthquake that has claimed more than 2 000 lives.