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China launches mining program in Zambia (AP)

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:36:41 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, and Zambian president Levy Mwanawas, 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 launched a copper mining partnership with Zambia on Sunday and won praise from Zambia's finance minister for his focus on economic investment rather than politics.



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 writers barred from entering Hong Kong (AFP)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:00:55 GMT | Yahoo! News

International PEN President Jiri Grusa at a press conference in Hong Kong. International PEN held a meeting 2-5 February 2007 of writers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan along with writers from other countries to discuss literature and free expression.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - Chinese authorities have warned off or barred more than 20 mainland writers from coming to Hong Kong for a major conference in its latest crackdown on dissent and the media, according to organisers.




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's president in Namibia on Africa economic drive (AFP)

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:14:00 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) shakes hand with Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa after a signing ceremony at the State House in Lusaka. Hu has held talks with his Namibian counterpart on the latest leg of an African tour marked by his largesse towards states where Beijing's economic presence is booming.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has arrived in Namibia on the fifth leg of an African tour which has seen him dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to states fuelling Beijing's economic juggernaut.



China's Hu due in key continental partner South Africa (AFP)

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:45:12 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) and Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba (R) at the start of the signing ceremony after bilateral talks in Windhoek. Hu arrived in Namibia on Monday, the fifth stage of his African journey which is aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between China and Africa.(AFP/Brigitte Weidlich)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao jets in to South Africa on Tuesday to buttress ties with Beijing's main trading partner on the continent and a key ally in pushing the developing world's agenda.



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.



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