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The election of the chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) has been postponed to July at the next AU summit, a South African official attending the summit said on Monday.
In early April 2011, at least seven mainland Chinese media outlets posted an article on their websites that included translations and summaries from foreign and Hong Kong news sources. The topic?...
Image management consists of striking a fine balance between portraying oneself favourably and maintaining legitimacy. The People’s Republic of China, so often the subject of international news...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged China to match its growing economic and political clout with more funding and troops for peacekeeping operations to meet growing international...
China is to hold talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism whom it blames for a wave of unrest, state media reported on Friday, as the Olympic flame arrived in...
Rice prices in Thailand, the world's top exporter, surged to $1,000 (500 pounds) a tonne on Thursday as concerns about food security first triggered by a handful of Asian export bans spread as...
China wants Sudan to eliminate obstacles blocking full deployment of the new U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur, Beijing's envoy said in Khartoum on Sunday, while also urging...
Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for developing countries to play a role in tackling climate change, but said the onus was on industrialised countries to take the lead, Xinhua news agency...
The collapsed world trade negotiations could be possibly brought
back to life if WTO member countries solve problems at home and
there are “enough pre-cooking preparations” in the...
Mozambique and Zimbabwe will work together to put back in place two
border marks which have been moved from their original position,
reports reaching here said on Wednesday.
A further 180 Chinese troops headed to the war-torn western African
state of Liberia on Thursday to join peacekeeping operations there,
state media reported.
China's leaders have drawn up a list of priority tasks for tackling
rampant corruption, targeting the financial sector and the
restructuring of state-owned enterprises, state media said today.
China has said the "legitimate interests" of foreign countries in
Iraq should be safeguarded, in a likely reference to contracts
Chinese companies signed with the Saddam Hussein regime.
With the top US civilian administrators for Iraq recalled to
Washington, a senior replacement arrived in the region accompanied
by one of the highest-ranking US military generals.
The United States on Monday ratcheted up disarmament pressure on
Iraq but key members of the UN Security Council called for giving
inspectors more time following their first report on attempts to...