Green China set to dominate renewable energy boom

Penny Wong could learn much from China's policies, writes Mathew Murphy.

Spectre Of 50m Job Losses Looms In China

THE economic crisis is set to hit workers harder in China than any other major economy, with a leading scholar predicting 50 million Chinese people could be out of work this year.

China's Quake Mums Given Green Light For More Babies

HUNDREDS of women who lost their only child in last year's earthquake are pregnant again after receiving a special exemption to the nation's strict population controls.

China Tightens Web, Fearing Slowdown And Tiananmen Anniversary

CHINA'S Communist Party has significantly tightened propaganda controls by shutting down the country's most vibrant and influential intellectual discussion platform.

Nervous China Tightens Grip On Internet

CHINA'S Communist Party has significantly tightened propaganda controls by shutting down the country's most vibrant and influential intellectual discussion platform.

China Braces For A Turbulent 2009

Economic instability is likely to become the greatest challenge to China's ruling communists.

A Specific Solution That Worked

AS THE Rudd Government faces more asylum seekers arriving by boat, the former Liberal minister Fred Chaney has declared the Fraser government's handling of the Indo-China refugee crisis 30 years ago to be "its finest hour".

The Diplomacy Of The Fig Leaf

IT IS regrettable, and worrying, that the annual China-Australia dialogue on human rights issues has been allowed to slip off the diplomatic calendar in this, the Rudd Government's first full year in office. True, Kevin Rudd earned credit for publicly raising human rights issues during his visit to Beijing in April. He was also reported to have stated Australia's concerns about religious and internet freedom, and civil rights in Tibet, to China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, in August. Both Mr Rudd and ...

Cultural Challenge

THE Hunter will be in a position to forge more links with China with plans to establish a Confucius Institute at the University of Newcastle.

Leaders Skip China Rights Talks

THE Federal Government is yet to hold its first human rights dialogue with China after it was skipped this year for the first time since the talks became an annual event 11 years ago.

Chinese Pandas Move To Taiwan As Rivals Learn To Bear It

YEARS of stalled "panda politics" between China and Taiwan was overcome with the arrival on the mainland yesterday of a plane to take a pair of panda cubs to their new home at Taipei Zoo today.

Mao's Memory Remains In Vogue, Even If His Policies Are History

IT MIGHT seem to the outside world that China has spent the past three decades trying to get away from Mao Zedong. In fact the county still has a soft spot for the romantic dictator.

No Turning Back In China's Great Leap Forward

PRESIDENT Hu Jintao marked China's 30 years of reform yesterday by proclaiming "there's no way for us to turn back" in a speech that also rejected calls for political reform.

Wuhan Set To Buy Half Of Sa Iron Ore Project

CHINA'S steel industry has swooped again on an Australian magnetite (iron ore) project, prompted in part by the collapse in local equity values and the increased purchasing power of the yuan.

Chinese Iron Ore Market 'recovering'

SINOSTEEL, China's biggest iron ore importer and trader, says the Chinese ore market is recovering and it wants to "accelerate" shipments from Australia.

China's Industrial Slump Speeds Up

CHINA'S industrial output has slumped to a new low, as leading economists say China's previously irrepressible economy is probably shrinking this quarter and will contract again in the first quarter of next year.

Anniversaries Offer Beijing Little To Celebrate

China's immense progress is jeopardised by its inability to pursue reforms.

Milestones Give Party A Lot To Ponder

Thursday is the official 30th anniversary of the beginning of China's era of reform. It marks a pivotal moment for humanity when a fifth of the world's population turned from poverty, autarky and dictatorship towards prosperity.

Sinosteel Losses Shut Rio Mine

HUGE losses at Sinosteel, China's dominant metals trading company, caused the shutdown of Rio Tinto's joint venture Channar mine and will jeopardise the development of the entire Midwest iron ore region in Western Australia, industry sources say.

Sinosteel's Big Losses Seal President's Fate

HUGE losses at Sinosteel, China's dominant metals trading company, caused the temporary shutdown of Rio Tinto's joint venture Channar mine in the Pilbara and will jeopardise development of the entire Midwest iron ore region, industry sources say.