Full Coverage: China

30.03.2006 Despite being the most populous developing country and in the middle of an enormous urbanization process, China contributed very little to the forum billed as the counterbalance to those of the economic elites.

29.03.2006 Chinese consumers who buy cars with engine capacities of more than four litres will have to pay a consumption tax of 20 percent from April.

29.03.2006 Despite China's image as the sweatshop of the world, the country's homegrown technology sector is beginning to bloom.

28.03.2006 Name the huge Asian country which is set to become a dominant global economic force powered by the worldÂ’s largest population.
Hands up all those who said China.
The answer is India.
Nury Vittachi offers a personal slant on a geopolitical struggle.

24.03.2006 China will continue its one-child policy, the director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Zhang Weiqing, said in an online forum.

23.03.2006 China has shut down an unspecified number of domestic porn and illegal websites in its latest crackdown on Internet porn and piracy, state media reported today.

21.03.2006 China plans to boost coal output by up to 18 percent before 2010 to meet soaring energy needs despite environmental concerns, a government newspaper quoted an industry official as saying.

20.03.2006 Kenya and other African countries are beginning to sour on the edicts laid down by their Western allies, looking instead China to help them grow economically and politically, some analysts are saying.

13.03.2006 Dozens of hunger-striking dissidents protesting against Beijing's human rights policies have gone missing or been detained, victims of a "clean-up" ahead of a meeting of China's parliament, reports Jehangir Pocha.
* China: house arrests stifle HIV/AIDS petitions

13.03.2006 The U.S. released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights practices for 2005 last Wednesday. China wasted no time in offering its annual retort, drawing on dozens of U.S. media reports to hold the mirror up to the "self-styled 'guardian of human rights.'"

07.03.2006 The Chinese Communist Party is preparing a new five-year development plan that will focus on raising living standards for the country's 800 million peasants, who have suffered as the income gap between urban and rural dwellers continues to widen.

07.03.2006 As ChinaÂ’s grows and expands, opportunities also arise for Africa, says Stephen Marks.

02.03.2006 Drive-by thieves who use violence may now face the death penalty, according to an announcement by the provincial authorities in China's Guangdong province.

02.03.2006 As much as 10–40% of the air pollutants emitted in the Pearl River Delta region in China, one of the world’s fastest growing industrial areas, can be tied to exports, a new report shows.