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China saves humanity (and Hollywood)


When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how mainland audiences are interpreting 2012, Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie.

HK implicated in US report on Chinese spying


A US congressional advisory panel has voiced concern about Hong Kong's export controls, fearing the mainland could use the city to import sensitive technology. In its annual report to ...

US seeks release of geologist on 'state secrets' charges


The United States is seeking the release of a US citizen detained in Beijing for two years, in a case similar to the detentions of Rio Tinto staff which launched an international ...

Police detain lawyers who sought to meet Obama


Two mainland rights lawyers were questioned by police - one for more than 13 hours - after seeking to meet US President Barack Obama, joining dozens of activists and petitioners who ...

Obama has gone; distrust returns


Mutual trust and strategic partnership were the buzzwords of US President Barack Obama's maiden visit to China. But just two days after his departure, an annual US Congress report ...

SOCIETY & ECONOMY

Around the Nation


The global economic downturn has not affected the personal wealth of the mainland's richest people, Xinhua reports.

In Brief


Former US president Jimmy Carter travelled to Sichuan to launch a campaign aimed at providing 10,000 poor families with affordable housing, a humanitarian group said.
 
POLITICS & POLICY
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Japan, China pledge to strengthen bilateral ties


Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that he would attend the World Expo in Shanghai next year and invited Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Tokyo before ...

Envoy blasts US media reports on Obama's visit


Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out yesterday at negative US media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues.
 
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Speculators, and mothers-in-law, drive property prices ever higher


YANGTZE BRIEFING Rampant stimulus-induced speculation, soaring prices, Mickey Mouse and evil mothers-in-law: Shanghai's property market has become a brutal and unforgiving world for first-time buyers.
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Obama takes right approach in China visit

FRANK CHING 

A growing travesty

VOICES 

China's image in Africa depends on who you ask

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Debate rages over death under students' care


HEALTH CARE Economist is lost without his wife, treated by unlicensed doctors, reports Yu Aitong.
 

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