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Spectre Of 50m Job Losses Looms In China

Monday January 19, 2009
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

Sunday January 18, 2009
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

Monday January 12, 2009
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

Monday January 12, 2009
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

Saturday January 3, 2009
Economic instability is likely to become the greatest challenge to China's ruling communists.

A Specific Solution That Worked

Thursday January 1, 2009
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".