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Protesters in Panyu district of Guangzhou Province gather to protest local authorities...Over a thousand citizens of China’s southern Guangzhou Province held a protest on Nov. 23 to express their opposition to local officials building a rubbish incinerator near their homes....

Now, with the holiday season upon us, they want to buy gifts for family and friends and give in to some of their own pent-up demand. They're going to find cashmere sweaters no longer cost $200, 32-inch flat screen TVs...

The new investments funded by China's stimulus plan may swamp world markets and lead to a surge in trade conflicts, an international business group said, in a sign of the rising concerns over the side effects of the government's drive...

The nation’s corporations have long been bracing for the day when they would be required to carry out sharp cuts in the emissions that cause global warming . That day seemed to move a bit closer on Wednesday, when President...

Fisher & Paykel Appliances chairman Gary Paykel has stepped down as the whiteware maker’s chairman and will be replaced temporarily by former Fletcher Building CEO Ralph Waters. F&P, which was forced into a major capital raising initiative including the sale...

The resilience of the Chinese steel sector was surprising, BHP Billiton chief Marius Kloppers has told the company's Australian annual general meeting in Brisbane. "We have no reason to change our long-held view that Chinese growth will continue and will...

If you've never seen The Perils of Gwendoline In The Land Of The Yik Yak , then allow me to enlighten you about this glorious moment in the history of exploitation cinema. This soft-core mindbender from the mid-1980s was directed...

Many engineers, mathematicians and physicists who got their start in Belleville will remember Charles "Dewey" Pruitt for his more than 40 years of teaching at what's now Southwestern Illinois College. His children will remember him for instilling in them the...

What is less well known by the West are movements of popular dissent within China today, particularly those that have been spurred by the book, Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Five years ago, in November 2004, the Nine Commentaries...

Capital spending declined 3.9 per cent from the previous quarter, when it rose a revised 2.1 per cent, the Bureau of Statistics said today...The dollar fell slightly on the news, and was recently trading at 92.68 US cents in Sydney,...