Sebastien Blanc
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Trump claims victory on travel ban, but border crackdown on hold
The court ruling handed a major victory to Trump in a tortuous legal battle over the Republican leader’s efforts to restrict immigration
US Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
The justices ruled 5-4 that the most recent version of the ban, which the administration claims is justified by national security concerns, was valid
Chinese Chengdu aspires to become next Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.
Stage set for Chinese political theatre
China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
China’s newcomer wine takes gold in blind tasting
A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.
45 saved in major Chinese mine rescue
Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface on Saturday in a rare successful rescue,.
From sports cars to slums: China’s huge wealth gap
Li Fu is 29, owns five cars and has a diamond-encrusted cell phone. Wang Qingzhan is 44, works as a cleaner and lives with his family in a tiny room.
At least 49 dead in Indonesia plane disaster
A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and…
SA the leader in crash casualties
With the latest three Spoornet railway accidents, South Africa has proudly claimed world leadership in southern hemisphere train crash casualties. During the rail accident year…
Everyday visions of faith
A woman living in the Western Cape town of Bellville East believes she has been receiving what she describes as "visions of the Saviour". Betty Deventer, an Absa bank…
The last outpost
A new Afrikaner resistance group has been founded and is gathering members at a rate described as "frantic". Calling itself the Afrikaner Young Women’s Union (AYWU), the group…
Lockerbie disaster theories rubbished
Fifteen years after the tragedy, new light has fallen on the real reasons behind the mid-air explosion that downed Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland. Two hundred and…
‘Old’ National Party to be revived
Interesting new evidence has appeared that seems to confirm rumours that secret plans are underway to re-establish a political party that has long since been declared dead and…