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China bars AIDS doctor from U.S. for award: activist (Reuters)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:14:00 GMT | Yahoo! News

AIDS activist Gao Yaojie is seen at a hotel during a visit to Shanghai in this March 27, 2004 file photo. Gao, who is known for her fight to expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her going to Washington to be honored by a Hillary Clinton charity, a friend said Monday, Fab. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Christopher Bodeen/File)Reuters - China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday.



Chinese president takes tour to Namibia (AP)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:32:44 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao, top left, and Zambian president Levy Mwanawas, top right, during a welcoming ceremony on Hu's arrival in Lusaka Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007. Hu's visit to Lusaka is expected to focus on new Chinese aid initiatives for Zambia and the inauguration Sunday of a new economic partnership zone in Zambia's Copperbelt province, which has become a key source of copper for China's growing economy. (AP Photo/Joseph J. Schatz)AP - Chinese president Hu Jintao brought his eight-nation African tour Monday to Namibia, a sparsely populated, mineral-rich desert country that hopes to benefit from an influx of Chinese investment and tourists.



China tightens controls on own media (AP)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:14:32 GMT | Yahoo! News

AIDS activist Gao Yaojie is seen at a hotel during a visit to Shanghai in this March 27, 2004 file photo. Gao, who is known for her fight to expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her going to Washington to be honored by a Hillary Clinton charity, a friend said Monday, Fab. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Christopher Bodeen/File)AP - At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.




China warns Japan not to 'sensationalise' island dispute (AFP)

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:33:47 GMT | Yahoo! News

A Chinese ship, sails near the disputed Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea, in 2004. Japan declared the islands part of its territory in 1895 when it took over Taiwan. China and Taiwan renewed their claims to the area after oil deposits were confirmed nearby in the 1970s.(AFP/File/Japan Coast Guard)AFP - China has warned Japan against "sensationalising" research activities by a Chinese vessel in disputed resource-rich waters, the foreign ministry in Beijing confirmed.



U.S. says China sends "mixed signals" on Darfur (Reuters)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:59:10 GMT | Yahoo! News

Actor Don Cheadle listens next to former commander of the UN peace keeping forces in Rwanda Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire (L) at a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Human Rights and the Law on genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan on Capitol Hill in Washington February 5, 2007. Cheadle starred in the movie 'Hotel Rwanda'. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES)Reuters - The United States said on Monday that a visit by China's president to Sudan, when he offered a loan to build a presidential palace, sent "mixed signals" about Beijing's intent to press Khartoum over Darfur.



China's Hu seals economic ties in S.Africa (Reuters)

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:38:51 GMT | Yahoo! News

China's President Hu Jintao (L) and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki touch a crystal ball to launch the China South Africa economic trade and cooperation website at the Union building in Pretoria, South Africa, February 6, 2007. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao signed economic and agricultural deals in South Africa on Tuesday as part of his tour of Africa, where there are concerns such agreements will only hurt the continent's poor countries.



Hu vows mutual benefits as Africa tour continues (AFP)

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:40:31 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao(L) and South Africa president Thabo Mbeki listen to the national anthems upon Hu's arrival at Union Buildings in Pretoria. Hu said Beijing's deepening involvement in Africa should result in a "win-win" situation after talks in Pretoria with the head of the continent's economic powerhouse.(AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao is due to hold more talks with South African leaders after pledging everyone stands to benefit from Beijing's growing influence in the world's poorest continent.



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