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Oil slips after China orders industrial capacity cuts
World oil prices slipped on Friday after China ordered industrial production capacity cuts in the face of slowing economic growth.
27 July 2013
Nazarbayev condoles to China over quake in Gansu
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a telegram of condolences to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the earthquake in Gansu.
26 July 2013
Debt, shadow finance bedevil China's economy
Decades of breakneck expansion have given China gleaming skyscrapers and sleek railways, but brought piles of debt.
26 July 2013
Kazakhstan to increase grain export via China
Kazakhstan is considering additional grain shipments to South-East Asia via China.
25 July 2013
Wells Fargo deposes China's ICBC as world's biggest bank
The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has lost its standing as the world's largest bank by market capitalisation to US-based Wells Fargo.
25 July 2013
Major China coal plant drains lake, wells: Greenpeace
A major Chinese state-owned coal producer has caused "drastic drops" in groundwater near one of its projects.
23 July 2013
'Wild Swans' author Jung Chang speaks of China dream
It may be unclear what exactly Beijing means by its aspirational "China Dream" slogan, but for banned "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang it's a positive step.
23 July 2013
Rescuers battle to find China quake survivors
Rescuers battled through dusty rubble Tuesday to try to reach victims of two shallow earthquakes in China that killed at least 89 people.
23 July 2013
At least 19 dead in twin China quakes: government official
At least 19 people were killed when two shallow earthquakes struck northwest China early Monday, a local government official told AFP as rescuers battled to reach survivors.
22 July 2013
Japan wins rights to explore for rare metals in Pacific
Japan on Saturday said it had won the rights to explore for cobalt-rich crusts in the Pacific, a move that could reduce its dependence on China for rare metals.
21 July 2013
G20 gets 'action plan' to fight tax avoidance
The OECD has presented the G20 nations with a bold strategy to crack down on tax avoidance by corporate giants and the super rich, and so boost overstretched national budgets.
20 July 2013
Huawei spies for China, says ex-CIA chief
The former head of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden said Friday it "goes without saying" that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei spies for Beijing.
20 July 2013
US 'concerned' over detention of Chinese lawyer
The United States on Thursday called on China to release a human rights lawyer who has campaigned against government corruption.
19 July 2013
Global poll sees China rising, but high marks for US
The world increasingly believes China will become the top superpower but the United States enjoys a better image in most regions.
19 July 2013
Ranking Chinese military official to check on Kazakhstan Navy in Aktau
Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China Fan Changlong has arrived in Astana.
18 July 2013
Website owner arrested for posting 'Canadian Psycho' video
A website owner has been arrested for posting an 11 minute video depicting an ex-porn actor's grisly killing and dismemberment of a 33-year-old Chinese student.
18 July 2013
Vice-Chairman of China's Central Military Commission expected in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Defense Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov has met Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Kazakhstan Zhou Li.
17 July 2013
Revealed: Secret of bees' honeycomb
For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb.
17 July 2013
Typhoon kills three, forces evacuation of 500,000 in China
Eastern China was battered Sunday by strong winds and torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which left three people dead and forced half a million people to evacuate their homes.
15 July 2013
China island centenarians claim secret of long life
The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day.
15 July 2013