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06 Nov 09 visit Dalai Lama caught in the middle as China-India border dispute comes to the boil Anyone over the age of 62 in the town of Tawang has a unique claim to fame: they have lived under four national flags — British, Tibetan, Indian and Chinese.
04 Nov 09 visit China approves Disney theme park after decade of negotiations The Magic Kingdom is to set up in the Middle Kingdom, concluding a decade of talks on a Disney park for China.
03 Nov 09 visit 'Godmother' of Chinese gangsters, Xie Caiping, jailed for 18 years One of China’s most notorious illegal casino operators, a woman who kept a stable of at least 16 young men as her lovers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
02 Nov 09 visit Earliest snowfall in Beijing since 1987 after cloud-seeding to beat drought Cloud-seeding by Chinese meteorologists has led to the earliest snow blizzard in Beijing for two decades.
30 Oct 09 visit China website campaign reunites kidnapped child with father On Thursday a father walked into an Chinese orphanage and promptly burst into tears - before him stood the son that had been stolen from him as a baby two years earlier.
27 Oct 09 visit Chinese man who cut off finger to protest innocence wins apology A young factory driver who cut off his little finger to protest his innocence in the face of a police sting operation has won an apology from the city government of Shanghai.
27 Oct 09 visit China champion banned for life for drugs use China has banned its 21-year-old women’s 100-metres champion for life after she tested positive for banned drugs at the National Games.
26 Oct 09 visit Ministers back Blair as best man to lead EU Tony Blair should be made head of a stronger European Union that would be able to compete with China and the United States on the world stage, the Foreign Secretary said yesterday.
23 Oct 09 visit Hope of cleaner skies as Beijing residents switch from coal to electricity The brick walls are grey, the sky is leaden, the alley is choked with dust and rubble as workmen fill in a long channel running along Tanggong Hutong, in the heart of old Beijing (Jane Macartney writes). The men have just finished laying an electricity...
23 Oct 09 visit Tibetan protestors executed for Lhasa riot killings Tibetan exiles have reported the first executions of those convicted for last year's riot in Lhasa, with at least two people put to death in a rare implementation of capital punishment in the restive region.
19 Oct 09 visit China in worldwide treasure hunt for artefacts looted from Yuan Ming Yuan palace China is to send a team of artefact hunters to nearly 50 countries to track down thousands of treasures looted by foreign armies 150 years ago.
17 Oct 09 visit One giant step for China Any day now, at a hidden airbase in the forests of northeast China, a panel of doctors and air-force officers will make the final choice of the first Chinese woman to go into space. When that happens, she will step out of the shadows of military secrecy...
15 Oct 09 visit Han Chinese sentenced to death for killing Uighur after race riots China has sentenced a Han Chinese to death for the revenge murder of a Muslim Uighur in the aftermath of China's deadliest ethnic violence in decades.
15 Oct 09 visit Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao makes unprecedented apology - over one word China’s Prime Minister has caused a sensation with an unprecedented letter of apology by a Communist Party leader.
14 Oct 09 visit Tourists killed in hot-air balloon accident in China A hot-air balloon has exploded and crashed in one of the most popular tourist spots in China, killing four Dutch tourists and injuring three people.
14 Oct 09 visit Wang Chuanfu tops China's rich list China’s new richest man named his company with prophetic accuracy. Wang Chuanfu called the firm BYD - or Build Your Dream.
12 Oct 09 visit 'Micheal Jackson' women in Tanzania search for Chinese husbands Zaina, 28, a tall Tanzanian woman, intends to cash in on the new Chinese presence in Africa. She is planning to find herself an oriental husband.
12 Oct 09 visit China tightens grip on Africa with $4.4bn lifeline for Guinea junta$ While the rest of the world recoiled in horror at recent events in Guinea, where at least 150 pro-democracy supporters were killed and dozens of women publicly raped by government soldiers, China has sensed an opportunity to steal another march on Western...
12 Oct 09 visit Uighurs sentenced to death over China's deadliest riots which killed 200 Six men have been sentenced to death in the first convictions after mobs of Muslim Uighurs rampaged through a western city in July, leaving nearly 200 people dead in the deadliest riot in China for decades.
11 Oct 09 visit China jails corrupt government offical A government official whose taste for expensive cigarettes and very large cars triggered an online furore in China has been sent to jail for corruption.
09 Oct 09 visit China loses grip on 60th anniversary security China’s vast security operation, involving tens of thousands of police and hundreds of thousands of volunteers, to ensure proper celebration of the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule is starting to fray.
05 Oct 09 visit Barack Obama accused of snubbing Dalai Lama to placate China President Obama was accused of bowing to Chinese pressure and snubbing the Dalai Lama as he prepares for a Sino-US summit in Beijing next month.
05 Oct 09 visit Tensions ease as China and North Korea mark diplomatic anniversary China and North Korea exchanged messages of goodwill today during a visit to Pyongyang by the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao which diplomats hope could see an easing of regional tensions.
04 Oct 09 visit ‘Dear Leader’ welcomes Chinese comrade to boost hopes of a nuclear agreement The Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, has arrived in North Korea for talks with its reclusive leader Kim Jong Il amid hopes of advancing nuclear disarmament by the pariah state after months of tension.
02 Oct 09 visit China stages picture-perfect 60th anniversary gala There were fireworks the likes of which the world has never seen; 500 tanks in Tiananmen Square and 5,000 troops on the march - saluted by 151 military aircraft - streaking low across the skies.
30 Sep 09 visit Retired reporter Li Pu recalls Mao founding People’s Republic of China Few witnesses survive to tell of the day 60 years ago that changed the history of China and the world. One of the last is Li Pu.
30 Sep 09 visit Beijing crackdown clears the way for stage-managed 60th anniversary gala Beijing resembled a city at war today as armed soldiers and Swat police patrolled the capital ahead of the Communist Party's biggest party for a decade to celebrate 60 years of rule.
28 Sep 09 visit Shoemakers seek protection as retailers call for change in Brussels A trade dispute over tariffs on cheap Chinese shoes is brewing at the European Commission as Italian and Spanish footwear manufacturers prepare to fight for continued European protection against Far Eastern imports.
26 Sep 09 visit China reaches out on 60th anniversary IT is designed to be a military spectacle to awe the Chinese people on the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic and to show the world a well equipped, modern force that is a far cry from the peasant army that swept the Communist party to power.
25 Sep 09 visit G20 to become world's main economic forum World leaders have announced that the Group of 20 developed and developing nations would become the top economic forum, spreading influence to emerging powers such as China and India.
23 Sep 09 visit Mao's grandson becomes youngest major-general in China army Chairman Mao’s grandson may be the very model of a modern major-general, possibly the youngest in all of the People’s Liberation Army.
22 Sep 09 visit China's coal-fired power stations 'among the least efficient in the world' Turning China into the world’s manufacturing centre has given us a bountiful supply of dirt-cheap goods but is proving an environmental disaster. Chinese industry is overwhelmingly dependent on coal for its energy and China’s coal-fired power stations...
22 Sep 09 visit Analysis: China may be dirty but it's cleaning up its act Here’s a dirty little secret: China is the most polluted country on Earth, but it is also doing much more than most to save the environment.
22 Sep 09 visit President Hu Jintao commits China to carbon-cutting deal President Hu of China threw his country's weight behind the campaign to fight climate change today when he promised to reduce the carbon intensity of his country's economic growth.
21 Sep 09 visit China ready to take lead in war on global warming China will unveil “impressive” measures at a high-powered summit in New York today that could help to unlock global talks on climate change, according to the UN climate chief.
19 Sep 09 visit Call for more babies as China turns to grey WHEN the head of family planning in Shanghai said young couples should have more babies because the city was growing old, it sounded like a statement of the obvious.
18 Sep 09 visit Warren Buffett's favourite suits sends Trands shares soaring Warren Buffett, the investor, is not usually the subject of chatter on planet fashion. But since he started wearing suits made by the Chinese company Dalian Dayang Trands, he has been attracting compliments for his sartorial distinction.
12 Sep 09 visit China uses fear to hush up poisoned children At first the villagers could not understand why their bouncing babies turned into small children who refused their food and complained of feeling ill all the time, agitated one moment but listless the next.
11 Sep 09 visit How we took Mao Zedong to the Gate of Heavenly Peace, by Jia Ke, 91 With a great guffaw of delighted laughter, Jia Ke throws back his head in joy as he recounts the day that Beijing surrendered to his communist armies.
11 Sep 09 visit Former president of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian sentenced to life Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan who pressed for the island’s formal independence from China, was sentenced to life in prison today for multimillion-pound bribery, corruption and money laundering.
11 Sep 09 visit Panic over syringe stabbings spreads to Beijing The Chinese authorities are anxious that mysterious syringe stabbings that have caused panic in the restive far west have now reached the capital.
10 Sep 09 visit A healthy, happy dog is surely the most valuable Why did Mrs Wang pay £350,000 for Yangtze River Number Two? It is difficult, even for a dog lover, to know what makes a dog worth so much. Most dogs sold for extremely high prices are skilled — a highly trained sheepdog, for instance — or have wo...
10 Sep 09 visit Tibetan Mastiff is 'most expensive' dog after £352,000 sale in China A black Tibetan Mastiff, 80cm (31in) high and answering to the name of Yangtze River Number Two, is believed to have broken the world record as the most expensive dog after a Chinese woman paid 4 million yuan (£352,000) for the “priceless” canine.
10 Sep 09 visit Palau move imminent for Guantanamo Uighers Three Chinese Muslims incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay are about to swop their prison walls for palm trees when they arrive in their new home - the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, in a few weeks time.
10 Sep 09 visit Kevin Rudd solves the Mablethorpe Twitter mystery The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is known for his love of foreign travel. Beijing, Washington, London all figure high on his list of favourite places to visit.
09 Sep 09 visit Mystery of UAE plane held in Calcutta with arms bound for China India is struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding a United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft detained in Calcutta since Sunday for carrying undeclared weapons — including at least one missile — bound for China.
06 Sep 09 visit China warns those convicted of needle attacks may face the death penalty In an effort to curb renewed unrest in the restive northwestern city of Urumqi, China has warned that anyone convicted of using a syringe in an attack could face the death penalty.
03 Sep 09 visit Ethnic tension flares over syringe attacks in Chinese city of Urumqi Thousands of angry protesters marched in China’s only Muslim-majority region today to demand government action over a series of hit-and-run syringe attacks blamed on the ethnic Uighur group.
03 Sep 09 visit Japan's new First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama: 'I went to Venus in a UFO' Japan’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, faces formidable foreign policy challenges in dealing with an expansionist China, a nuclear armed North Korea and a sinister Russia. But he need have no concerns about establishing friendly relations with t...
02 Sep 09 visit China wages war on pests before 60th anniversary of Communist rule Mosquitoes, rats, flies and cockroaches beware: China is out to exterminate you. Beijing is determined to rid the city centre of pests that could spoil celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule.

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