It’s 11am in Yan’an: time for a daily rerun of Mao’s revolution, finds Tania Branigan.
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/ 23 September 2009
Ethiopia said on Wednesday that its national electricity company has signed contracts with three Chinese firms to develop hydro-electric projects.
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/ 23 September 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised to put a ”notable” brake on the country’s rapidly rising carbon emissions.
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/ 22 September 2009
China and the US will seek to revive stalled negotiations on a new pact to combat global warming at a UN summit on Tuesday.
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/ 20 September 2009
South Africa’s delegation to ‘Climate Week’ aims
to negotiate for financial pledges from developed
countries, writes Yolandi Groenewald
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/ 14 September 2009
Angola is evicting whole communities to meet the
president’s promise to build a million new homes
by 2012, writes Niren Tolsi
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/ 12 September 2009
China lashed a US decision to impose duties on Chinese-made tyres, calling them flagrant protectionism.
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/ 10 September 2009
Standard Bank Group expects its profit in China to double next year, benefiting from the growing economic ties between Africa and China.
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/ 4 September 2009
Security forces used tear gas to break up protests on Friday, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security after a spate of syringe attacks.
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/ 4 September 2009
Recent syringe attacks in Xinjiang were ”instigated by ethnic separatist forces”, Beijing’s security minister was quoted saying on Friday.
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/ 3 September 2009
China rejected on Thursday claims by US journalists that they were seized on Chinese territory before being dragged into North Korea and jailed there.
Refugees who fled to China from armed clashes in north-east Burma began going back on Monday, overcoming worries about safety.
China denounced a proposed trip to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama on Thursday, saying any such visit threatened to ”sabotage” improving relations.
Tens of thousands of African and Arab traders have thronged to export hubs such as Guangzhou and Yiwu in eastern China to seek their fortunes.
Quick-fix economic strategies are a recipe for disaster, writes Larry Elliott.
Chinese officials appear to have retreated from their controversial plan to install an internet-filtering system on computers in the country.
Traders catch scent of recovery on global manufacturing figures
Hillary Clinton’s African tour cannot conceal a stark reality: China has overtaken the US as Africa’s top trading partner.
No scars, no history of serious illness in the last three generations of your family, and no cavities are among the rules for would-be astronauts.
China has denied claims by an exiled Uighur leader that 10 000 people disappeared following the riots in Urumqi, dismissing them as ”fabricated”.
A human rights group said on Wednesday that China retained its position as the world’s top executioner in 2008.
Chinese border police have seized 70kg of vanadium bound for North Korea, foiling an attempt to smuggle a material used to make missile parts.
For the first time in decades Chinese officials are actively encouraging procreation, urging eligible couples to have two children.
A Chinese delegation left on Wednesday for talks in Moscow on the fate of 150 merchants seized by Russian authorities in a smuggling crackdown.
Several Chinese websites went offline on Tuesday amid tightening controls that have already left mainland web users without access to social sites.
The daughter of two held followers and a former detainee tell of continuing abuse 10 years after China launched its crackdown.
Gongmeng centre’s lawyers have acted in numerous high-profile cases, most recently representing victims of tainted milk.
China warned Australia on Thursday not to interfere in the case of a Rio Tinto executive held on spy claims.
from ethnic unrest in north-western China’s Urumqi city on July 5 has risen by eight to 192, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
Statement follows release of first definition of internet addiction last year — but critics say criteria for condition are too vague.
Dong Yuanyuan was a happy newlywed until ethnic hatred spilled over into violence in China’s far west. She is recovering: her husband is missing.
The script is jarringly familiar. Bodies lie on streets of an ethnic minority area, troops fan out, and Beijing denounces overseas enemies.