Full Coverage: China

31.08.2005 China's plans to attract "overseas Chinese" researchers to help drive its scientific progress are being undermined by the "irresponsibility" of those being hired, a senior US-based Chinese mathematician has warned.

29.08.2005 ChinaÂ’s increasing interest in economic and trade integration with Latin America while worrisome to Washington, is encouraging to some Latin American leaders who perceive the U.S. as a being a condescending patron, say AmericaÂ’s Program analysts.

26.08.2005 The combined emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from hundreds of new coal-burning power plants could exceed current UK emissions.

24.08.2005 The world’s most populous nation now has motorists — but there’s no petrol at the pumps. Nury Vittachi, China-based journalist and author, sends the first in a new series of dispatches, exclusive to OneWorld UK.

22.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 22 (OneWorld) - The Walt Disney Co. has asked an outside auditor to investigate reports that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime, and hide their violations from labor monitors by issuing false pay slips.

22.08.2005 Global electronic companies are sending their wastes, that contain hazardous chemicals and substances, to dumping grounds in India and China where these wastes are manually segregated and recycled. Environmental organisation Greenpeace does a recce of dumping grounds in India and China and finds big brands, lying in dirt, waiting to be sorted out.

15.08.2005 Companies that take the plunge into China's cyber-media market expect big dividends in return, but the price paid by ordinary Chinese is just as high. Wendy Ginsberg looks at the virtual and real-world environments that drive Western business to apply the kind of censorship that would never pass at home.

08.08.2005 Three years to the day to the start of the Beijing Olympics, China is sent a reminder to make good its promise to improve the country's human rights situation.

02.08.2005 ChinaÂ’s Ministry of Science and Technology will contribute US$20.000 to UNESCOÂ’s Information for All Programme, declared last week the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC).