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China lashes out at US technology restrictions

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

Beijing branded a new US spending bill barring government purchases of Chinese-made technology "biased" on Thursday, after the two powers clashed over accusatio...

Paraguay set against Venezuela pact role

Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)

The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has widened the gulf between his country and Paraguay, the landlocked nation that was suspended from regional trad...

BRICS voice concern on violence in Iran, Syria

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

Leaders from emerging powers on Wednesday expressed their opposition to threat of military action against Tehran, amid US and Israeli warnings they will not tol...

China tightens grip on Africa's resources

Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)

China's new President Xi Jinping is touring Africa, underlining the mineral-rich continent's strategic importance for Beijing in its relentless drive to acquire...

BRICS: a dynamic group dominated by China

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

As the leaders of BRICS five emerging nations meet in Durban for a summit on Tuesday, economic data shows that the grouping of Brazil, China, India, Russia and ...

Resources giveaway in Latin America tramples human rights and environment

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

A new study reveals that governments in Latin America have returned to natural resources extraction to fuel development-while paying scant attention to the impa...

China firm's Australia deal in doubt over murder case

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese firm's billion-dollar takeover of an Australian iron ore miner was in danger of collapse Tuesday after reports the buyer's boss was detained by police...

Outside View: U.S-Ukraine ties

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

Second only to Russia itself, Ukraine is the most important country of the former Soviet Union for U.S. policy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Despite Kiev's dec...

China, S.Africa seal new oil, rail deals

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

South Africa signed a raft of agreements with China on Tuesday, including on the construction of a world-class oil refinery and upgrading the country's rail and...

China, Japan, S. Korea open free trade talks

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

China, Japan and South Korea kicked off formal negotiations Tuesday on securing a free trade agreement to bind together three economies that account for around ...

H.K. court rejects landmark residency bid by maids

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Hong Kong's top court on Monday threw out a landmark case that would have given hundreds of thousands of foreign maids the right to seek permanent residency, en...

Outside View: TPP and Asian economies

Mar 22, 2013 (UPI)

Joining what is likely to be the world's biggest trade deal can be a mixed blessing. Advocates insist that joining the Trans Pacific Partnership could boost exp...

U.K. envoy move eases Paraguay isolation

Mar 21, 2013 (UPI)

Whether intended or not, Britain's reopening of its embassy in Asuncion will help Paraguayan President Federico Franco recover from diplomatic setbacks since a ...

Chinese workers jailed for high-rise demo in Singapore

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced two Chinese workers to four weeks in jail each for staging a high-rise protest atop construction cranes in December, loc...

China sets sights on S. America resources

Mar 20, 2013 (UPI)

China has set sights on securing long-term supplies of natural resources from Latin America and a share of the region's emerging markets for its exports. Latin ...

China foreign direct investment overseas soars 147%

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese investment overseas in January and February soared 147 percent year-on-year to $18.39 billion, official data showed Tuesday -- more than foreign direct ...

One of Europe's longest ice highways opens in Estonia

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

Spring may be around the corner, but in Estonia residents of one tiny island are celebrating the cold with the opening of a 12-kilometre (seven-mile) ice highwa...

Lego to build Chinese factory to serve Asia

Mar 18, 2013 (AFP)

Danish toy maker Lego said Monday would build a Chinese factory that employs 2,000 people to serve the rapidly growing Asian market. Construction of the 120,000...

Chinese teaching growing in US, helped by Beijing

Mar 16, 2013 (AFP)

Susan Wang couldn't speak English when she arrived in California from Taiwan, aged 16. Now 49, she heads a school offering US children a similar experience, plu...

Kyrgyzstan PM to head gold mine talks

Mar 15, 2013 (UPI)

Kyrgyzstan says a board headed by Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev will seek to renegotiate an agreement with the owner of the country's biggest gold mine. A ...