Japanese firms have shut factories in China and urged expatriate workers to stay indoors in the wake of angry protests over a territorial dispute.
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/ 8 February 2012
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s visit to the US next week could set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president.
Chinese forces have fired tear gas to break up a protest by Tibetans in the province of Sichuan, the latest flare-up of volatile unrest there.
The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he has evidence that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, now on the run, had helped hire mercenaries.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says he will make job creation a more urgent priority in the face of slowed economic growth and weakened exports.
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/ 16 September 2011
A stream of warnings in state media has exposed how nervous Beijing is about microblogs and their potential to tear at the seams of party censorship.
China’s second-biggest train maker will recall 54 bullet trains used on the new showcase Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons.
China’s media are curbing combative reporting of a train disaster after what observers said were orders from the Communist Party’s propaganda arm.
China’s millions of rural workers will become a serious threat to stability unless they are better treated in their new urban homes.
Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper has said of Google’s hacking attack claims.
A prominent human rights lawyers in China remains missing three days after he called his wife to say he was led away by state security police.
Chinese police said prominent artist and rights activist Ai Weiwei is under investigation "for suspected economic crimes".
China told the United States on Wednesday that its first test-flight of a stealth fighter jet should not be seen as a threat.
North Korea said on Friday it would strike again at the South if a live-firing drill planned by Seoul on a disputed island went ahead.
China expressed concern on Thursday about South Korea’s planned joint military exercise with the United States.
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/ 23 November 2010
China acknowledged on Tuesday it is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, confirming what scientists have said for years.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China’s rise, state media said on Monday.
The United States said UN climate talks were making less progress than hoped, with a rift over poorer nations’ emission goals.
The UN climate change chief urged governments on Monday to make real steps towards a new treaty to fight global warming.
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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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/ 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.
A passenger plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in north-east China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 42 people.
President Jacob Zuma called on Tuesday for greater investment in his country from China, as SA seeks to narrow its trade deficit with Beijing.
China deflected pressure to censure North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday, instead urging its neighbours to calm tensions.
President Hu Jintao flew to China’s remote and ruined Yushu county to speed relief distribution on Sunday, as Tibetan monks prayed over victims.
Tibetans cremated their dead on Saturday after a massive earthquake struck a remote part of China earlier in the week.
Tibetans mourned dead relatives on Friday from an earthquake that killed nearly 800 people in remote western China.
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/ 30 January 2010
China threatened to impose sanctions on US arms firms and cut cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6,4-billion arms sale to Taiwan.
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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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/ 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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/ 12 January 2010
China successfully tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air, the government said.