The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the Covid-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination
Racist and derogatory videos are causing incalculable damage to China’s image in Africa, but this is unlikely to change the relationship
The plight of international students studying at the University of the Witwatersrand is echoed around the world
In South Africa we must learn to value different types of social capital to make the economy — and society — more inclusive
As part of their Africa 3.0 project, Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom explore ‘Chocolate City’, a bustling community of African traders in Guangzhou, China.
The Beijing city government has said that it will give users of micro blogs three months to register with their real names or face legal consequences.
Several staff at a Chinese TV station were suspended after footage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests slipped past censors and was broadcast.
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/ 5 February 2008
China’s prime minister said ”victory” was in sight on Tuesday with the country finally overcoming huge transport and power problems caused by weeks of savage weather. A huge backlog of passengers left stranded at airports, train stations and bus depots by blizzards and icy temperatures in the last three weeks appeared to be clearing.
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/ 3 February 2008
Millions of Chinese workers battled for a precious train ticket home on Sunday as authorities struggled to keep order here following a stampede for seats that left a woman trampled to death. Savage winter snows and freezing temperatures that have brought much of the nation to a standstill.
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/ 1 February 2008
Millions of Chinese faced a humanitarian crisis on Friday, as petrol and food reserves dwindled and yet more bad weather was forecast for a country paralysed by record-breaking cold and snow. More than 160 counties and cities in central China were suffering blackouts and water shortages, Xinhua news agency said.
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/ 31 January 2008
China has turned its battle against brutal winter weather into a propaganda push to try to comfort millions of cold, stranded and dismayed citizens, even as storms threaten to continue lashing many areas. Snow, sleet and ice blanketing much of central, eastern and southern China have killed dozens.
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/ 16 January 2007
Aid agencies and African states called for more help on Tuesday to fight malaria, a disease that kills more than a million people each year, 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. A dire shortage of money, infrastructure and medical personnel continues to make drugs inaccessible to people who most need them — children and pregnant women, the two groups most vulnerable to the disease.
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/ 13 January 2006
After days of frenzied speculation, a television station claimed on Friday to have captured proof of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il living it up at a luxury hotel in China. The grainy footage broadcast by Japan’s Nippon Television station in Tokyo showed a bespectacled man with Kim’s trademark bouffant hairstyle surrounded by men in black as he got out of a limousine.
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/ 17 October 2005
Political reform is likely to be high on the agenda of a closed-door meeting of China’s communist leaders amid growing strains between a population demanding more rights and a bureaucracy increasingly using illegal means to maintain its grip on power.
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/ 26 September 2005
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers on Monday sought more talks with Beijing on political reform in the city after a historic first meeting with a senior Communist Party official ended in acrimony. They said tense opening talks with Zhang Dejiang, party chief of the southern economic powerhouse province of Guangdong, should be just the beginning and they should be allowed to continue pressing their case.