Ching Chong China Girl

Ching Chong China Girl Helene Chung ABC Books, $32.95

Aborigines Urged To Deal With China Leader's Plea On Mineral Wealth

ABORIGINAL communities should consider directly negotiating mining deals with China and India over their resource-rich land, says indigenous leader Warren Mundine.

China's Donkey Of Consumption Drags Its Hooves

The Chinese economy is dangerously unbalanced towards investment, writes John Lee.

China Calls On Former Enemy To Help

CHINA has reportedly requested Japanese military help to cope with the devastating Sichuan earthquake that has killed more than 68,000 people and displaced another 15 million.

China Seeks Military Help From Japan

IN AN extraordinary move, China has requested Japanese military help in coping with this month's devastating Sichuan earthquake that has killed more than 67,000 people and displaced another 15 million.

Sanya Base To Float Chinese Naval Ambition

China is set to challenge US dominance in the Pacific by 2050.

A Sympathetic View Of China's Arch Nemesis

The Open Road: The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Pico Iyer (Bloomsbury, $32.95)

Tent Schools For Refugees Amid Aftershock Trauma

HEAVY rain yesterday in south-west China impeded relief efforts as aftershocks led to thousands of people sleeping in the open, despite the bad weather.

Big Trouble In Little China

The WU team from China was a little timid on some slam deals from the final of

Chinalco Rumour Fuels Bhp Surge

BHP Billiton shares have been carried to record levels on renewed speculation China's state-owned aluminium group, Chinalco, is planning to lead a $US25 billion sharemarket raid for a 10% interest to match the $US15 billion stake it has snared in BHP takeover target Rio Tinto.

Frantic Search For Survivors

RESCUE teams finally arrived at the epicentre of China's devastating earthquake last night and began searching for survivors in the ruins of buildings under which thousands of people are feared to have been buried.

Earthquake One Of The Biggest In The Past Century

AT A magnitude of 7.9, the violent earthquake that shook China's Sichuan province was as powerful as the most destructive quake recorded last century: in Tangshan, China, in 1976, when 240,000 were killed in an event that reached magnitude 7.8.

Tsunami Quake May Have Had A Hand In Latest Disaster

FORCES that triggered the earthquake in China on Monday may have been born in the geological event that triggered the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, killing more than 230,000 people, an Australian seismologist says.

You Can't Hide A Major Disaster In Today's China

FACED with China's biggest earthquake in 32 years, the ruling Communist Party has met the calamity with a flurry of mobilisation, candour and control that shows that much has changed since the last huge quake.

Huge Toll Feared In Quake

THOUSANDS of people have been killed by a powerful earthquake that struck densely populated areas of south-western China late yesterday.

China's Attack On Sino Gold Could Signal Tougher Times For Miners

AN AUSTRALIAN mining company has been attacked on official Chinese television for the sorts of environmental, community and financial abuses sometimes associated with Chinese-owned mines in Africa, Papua New Guinea and South America.

Nsw Power Play Stirs Up A Giant Of Global Warming

China's Huaneng Group is desperate to diversify and operating in Australia could help it mend its ways.

Politics And Sport Are Set To Mix

PROTESTS by athletes on the medals podium at the Beijing Olympics over China's human rights record are a real possibility, Australia's Olympics chief has warned.

The Angel And The Demon

The Olympic torch relay has illuminated the silent conflict that rages vocally outside China's borders, writes Ching-Ching Ni.

China Power Giant Keeps An Eye On Nsw Electricity Sale

CHINA'S largest power company has its eyes on NSW Premier Morris Iemma's $15 billion sale of electricity assets, as part of a strategy to buy Australian power, coal and even uranium assets. Shenhua Group

Don't Ignore The Big New Player In Fiji

As the publisher of The Fiji Times follows the publisher of the Fiji Sun as the latest recalcitrant journalist to be booted out of Fiji, it is worth looking at one of the foreign players more favoured by the regime: China. A country that has its own issues with press freedom, China has shown remarkable warmth towards the latest unelected Fijian government.

China's Unemployment Rate Down For The Count

VICE-Premier Zhang Dejiang has warned that China's employment situation is "grave" and that the country desperately needs job creation policies to get its college graduates into work.

Employment For The Masses In China

The Chinese Vice-Premier, Zhang Dejiang, warned a week ago that China's employment situation was "grave" and the country desperately needed proactive job creation policies to lever college graduates into work.

Stern Gets Sterner On Emissions

The pressure comes after former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern warned that they must take the lead ahead of China and India.