China and Japan said they were ready on Friday to boost spending to fight the downturn as a rift widened over the global response to the crisis.
China’s thirst for resources including wood and minerals is leading to deforestation in Africa and the destruction of wildlife, said Jane Goodall.
China said on Tuesday that a US Navy ship involved in a confrontation with its fleet off Hainan had violated international and Chinese laws.
The Dalai Lama on Tuesday accused China of having killed hundreds of thousands of his people and transforming his homeland into a "hell on earth".
When Zhou Changshun complained about the fairness of elections in his home village in China’s Hebei province, he had just three days left to live.
China wants the G20 summit to make progress against global financial turmoil, the country’s foreign minister said on Saturday.
China’s foreign minister warned other countries on Saturday not to let the Dalai Lama use their territory to try to sever Tibet from Chinese control.
China Premier Wen Jiabao made an overture to Taiwan on Thursday, saying Beijing was ready to create the conditions needed to reach a peace agreement.
Executives at listed Chinese companies last year saw their pay grow about twice as fast as the profits of the companies they manage.
Years of Chinese government denunciations and decades in exile have not loosened the Dalai Lama’s influence over Tibetans in his homeland.
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/ 28 February 2009
With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, it can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.
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/ 28 February 2009
A Tibetan Buddhist monk in China set himself on fire in an apparent protest against government religious restrictions and was shot by security forces.
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/ 27 February 2009
Relatives of people killed when China crushed the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement have called for those responsible to be punished.
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/ 27 February 2009
Chinese officials on Friday painted a mixed picture of the economy, with one saying the country was on track to hit its 8% growth target this year.
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/ 25 February 2009
China’s global media expansion picked up pace this week with the nation’s top English-language newspaper launching in the US, company officials said.
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/ 23 February 2009
The farmlands of central China hold no future for Li Honglin, but she’s trapped there until word comes from a clothing factory where she used to work.
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/ 22 February 2009
Seventy-four workers were confirmed dead and dozens trapped underground after a gas blast early on Sunday at a north Chinese colliery.
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/ 12 February 2009
China, Africa’s biggest emerging market partner, will overcome the economic crisis and resume its march into mining and infrastructure investments.
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/ 10 February 2009
China’s quest to show it is a responsible power moves to Africa, where President Hu Jintao will seek to both reassure and temper hopes.
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/ 7 February 2009
Around 20-million migrant workers have returned to the Chinese countryside after failing to find work in the cities because of the economic downturn.
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/ 4 February 2009
Bundled in city clothes, Zhao Yongfeng slumped in front of a television set and tried to ignore the red-cheeked children in padded jackets.
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/ 4 February 2009
Darryl Accone rounds up the hottest reads on China as the Year of the Ox yokes up.
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/ 28 January 2009
Officials are turning a blind eye to routine violations of China’s labour law to ease the burden on stricken businesses during the financial downturn.
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/ 26 January 2009
China is considering including more African goods in a list of products excluded from import tariffs as a way of further boosting trade.
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/ 24 January 2009
China’s central bank on Saturday said United States accusations that it was manipulating the yuan currency were misleading.
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/ 24 January 2009
China must do more to ease public distress as it battles a slowing economy and rising unemployment, a leadership meeting said
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/ 23 January 2009
China sought on Friday to portray its internet crackdown as a campaign to protect youth from filth and nothing to do with stifling political dissent.
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/ 22 January 2009
A Chinese court on Thursday gave the death penalty to a man involved in making tainted milk that killed six babies and sickened about 300&000 others.
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/ 21 January 2009
China offered a nervous welcome on Wednesday to US President Barack Obama, expressing concern over the direction he may take Sino-US relations.
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/ 19 January 2009
Lawyers for more than 200 families said on Monday they were turning to China’s highest court for higher compensation for their affected children.
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/ 14 January 2009
Two golden labradors sporting uniforms and leather shoes launched China’s first drug-sniffing dog patrol on flights to Beijing this week.
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/ 13 January 2009
Chinese authorities defended their internet censorship practices on Tuesday after a rights group accused them of cracking down.