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/ 26 January 2010
Trailblazing Chinese tennis player Zheng Jie will have to defeat one of her idols if she is to create even more history at the Australian Open.
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/ 26 January 2010
Chinese state media stepped up their war of words with the United States over internet control on Tuesday, with a newspaper claiming a US conspiracy.
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/ 25 January 2010
The giant red poster staring over China’s Wanding border crossing with Burma proclaims that their "brotherly feelings will last forever".
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/ 25 January 2010
China has every right to punish citizens using the internet to challenge Communist Party power and ethnic policies, a senior official said on Monday.
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/ 24 January 2010
One spin-off from the story of Google’s difficulties with China is that it may finally spur the West to discard its rose-tinted spectacles.
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/ 22 January 2010
Chinese media on Friday dismissed Washington’s call to lift internet censorship, but the critical Chinese reports were then cut from websites.
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/ 21 January 2010
China sought to contain tension with the US over online censorship and hacking, saying Google’s dispute with Beijing should not be over-stated.
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/ 20 January 2010
Google has delayed the debut of cellphones designed to connect with its internet services in China, widening the void between the company and Beijing.
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/ 19 January 2010
Google has postponed the launch of two cellphones in China, in a sign its business there is starting to be affected by a dispute over hacking.
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/ 19 January 2010
A Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure has died of a stroke likely triggered by over-excitement from watching <i>Avatar</i> in 3D.
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/ 18 January 2010
Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the search giant fell victim to in December.
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/ 15 January 2010
China said on Friday that Google’s threat to pull out of the country over censorship would not affect Beijing’s economic ties with the US.
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/ 14 January 2010
Chinese internet users on Thursday appealed for Google not to close down its operations in the country after an ultimatum to Beijing over censorship.
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/ 13 January 2010
The US and Google separately said they would move against Chinese internet censorship, possibly signalling the start of a harder line toward China.
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/ 12 January 2010
China successfully tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air, the government said.
It appears that China’s climate talks negotiator has been punished for his obstructionist approach in Copenhagen.
Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown.
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/ 29 December 2009
China has executed a British citizen caught smuggling heroin, the British Foreign Office said, in a move condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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/ 25 December 2009
A court on Friday sentenced dissident Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for subversion, prompting the US to accuse China of persecuting its opponents.
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/ 22 December 2009
China has issued new internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a ”whitelist” of approved websites.
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/ 19 December 2009
A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at Copenhagen.
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/ 12 December 2009
Chinese police have detained about 3 470 people so far this year during a crackdown on online pornography and closed thousands of websites.
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/ 4 December 2009
China has sentenced 13 low-level officials to jail for an iron mine dam collapse just before the Olympic Games opened in Beijing last year.
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/ 4 December 2009
With just days to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the world waits for China to set its carbon target.
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/ 2 December 2009
Police in northern China have sentenced five Christian church leaders to two years of ”education through labour”, a rights group said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 November 2009
A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off on Saturday from Shanghai’s main international airport, killing three crew members.
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/ 26 November 2009
China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to climate talks.
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/ 26 November 2009
Rory McIlroy propelled Ireland into a three-shot lead over Argentina as they ended the first day of the Golf World Cup in style on Thursday.
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/ 23 November 2009
Hundreds of rescuers in northern China are battling to reach 21 miners trapped after a huge gas explosion killed at least 104 of their colleagues.
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/ 22 November 2009
The death toll from China’s latest coal mine disaster reached 87 as hopes dimmed on Sunday that more survivors would be found.
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/ 21 November 2009
A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres underground.
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/ 18 November 2009
Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao mostly lauded the increased cooperation between their countries at a meeting this week.