Tag Archives: China

As trade and investment in Africa explodes – China is now keen t...

May 28, 2012 3 comments

CAPE TOWN, Kristin Palitza (IPS) – The reality of Indian and Chinese investment in Africa is much more complex than the good cop, bad cop image of Asia’s two emerging economic giants. China and India...

China plays big at Zimbabwe’s International trade expo

April 23, 2012 3 comments

Just like journalist Aaaron Wee writes that China’s foreign policy will soon resemble that of the United States a century ago- that of aggression in economic and political dominance in the world, tho...

President Ernest Koroma pays tribute to UNIDO and China as government ...

April 4, 2012 7 comments

President Ernest Bai Koroma has paid glowing tribute to UNIDO and especially its Sierra Leonean born Director-General Dr Kandeh Yumkella for the tremendous support the Organization is providing Sierr...

Amnesty International says China and Russia, the key arms suppliers to...

February 17, 2012 no comments

UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – Russia and China, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council described as key arms suppliers to the embattled regime in Syria, are now accused of supplying we...

China’s finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie and the ...

January 27, 2012 1 comment

BULAWAYO, (IPS) – From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds – the Chinese finger is now in virtually...

Nuclear dangers as the World gets “One Minute Closer to Midnight”

January 26, 2012 no comments

Berlin – “We want a nuclear weapons free world.” More than 80 percent of people around the globe have expressed this overwhelming desire to authors of a new report. But a close look shows that very l...

Chinese have become unwelcome guests in Zimbabwe because of bad labour...

January 10, 2012 no comments

HARARE,  (IPS) – Alec Marembo has built his family fortune making bricks in Dzivarasekwa, a sprawling high-density suburb north of the capital of Zimbabwe. But due to the economic crisis of the last ...

Outrage! as opposition appointed diplomats and civil servants sabotage...

December 28, 2011 no comments

Civil servants and diplomats appointed to key positions of authority and influence by the previous SLPP government in Sierra Leone, are alleged to have gone on the rampage to sabotage, destroy and ru...

As development efforts continue, President Ernest Bai Koroma launches ...

December 21, 2011 no comments

Freetown - The commencement ceremony of the China-aided road rehabilitation project and the construction of the Charlotte Hydro Power Project was marked by an official turning of the sod ceremony by ...

APC party launches Asia branch in China as Secretary General predicts ...

December 20, 2011 1 comment

Secretary -General for the ruling All Peoples’ Congress Party in Sierra Leone, Victor Bockarie Foe has told members of the APC Asia Branch, that even though the party is presently having a majority i...

U.N. Human Rights Chief slams China for failing to arrest Sudan Presid...

June 30, 2011 3 comments

The head of the U.N. human rights commission has criticised China for failing to arrest Sudan’s president so that he can be brought to trial on war crimes charges. U.N. High Commissioner for Hu...

China releases Ai Weiwei but told him to shut up!

June 22, 2011 1 comment

Ai Weiwei, one of China’s renowned artist and  the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists in the Asian country, returned home late Wednesday after nearly three months in ...

Teenage boy sells his kidney to raise money for iPad 2

June 5, 2011 no comments

A young teenager, Xiao Zheng, from the country’s south-eastern Anhui province, is believed to have met a broker on the internet who said he could help him sell his kidney for £1,825. He is said...

China accuses the United States of global internet war to bring down A...

June 3, 2011 no comments

Chinese military officials have accused the U.S. of launching a global a “Internet war” to bring down Arab and other governments, turning the tables on allegations of major online attacks...

China says its aid to Africa is not aimed at grabbing the continent...

April 26, 2011 no comments

Suggestions that its burgeoning foreign aid to Africa is driven by its interest in the impoverished continent’s rich natural resources, has been slammed by China. It says that it helps poorer c...

North Korea border guards appear to have shoot-to-kill orders against ...

April 8, 2011 no comments

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2011 (AFP) – The United States on Friday reported dire human rights abuses in North Korea, including infanticide, and said that border guards appeared to have shoot-to-kill...