http://www.news24.com/Tags/Places/china Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:16:07 +0200 The United States on Wednesday downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan to the bottom of a US table for failing to make greater efforts to combat human trafficking. http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-lashes-China-Russia-for-sex-trade-20130619 Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, the state media reports. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/China-Death-penalty-for-polluters-20130619 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices. http://www.news24.com/World/News/UNs-Ban-warns-of-new-peacekeeping-threats-20130619 Chinese shares were down 0.81% in early trading due to worries over a share glut that could be triggered by the resumption of new stock offers, dealers say. http://www.fin24.com/Markets/International-Markets/China-shares-down-081-in-morning-trade-20130619 A dolphin has died in China after tourists hoisted it out of the water to pose with it for photographs, state media has said. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Dolphin-dies-after-tourist-abuse-20130618 Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will launch a new smartphone to better compete with high-end rivals. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Huawei-to-launch-new-smartphone-20130618 China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Chinese-supercomputer-worlds-fastest-20130617 The young intelligence technician who leaked details of the vast US programme to monitor private internet traffic has dismissed claims that he was working as a Chinese agent. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Snowden-dismisses-claim-he-is-Chinese-spy-20130617 China's cabinet has announced measures to curb the country's notorious air pollution, one of the many environmental challenges facing the country that are increasingly angering the public. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/China-moves-to-curb-air-pollution-20130615 The US is confident it will bring Edward Snowden to justice for "extremely damaging" leaks about secret internet surveillance programmes, US Attorney General Eric Holder says. http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-Snowden-will-be-held-accountable-20130614 The wife of China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest an 11-year prison term given to her brother. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Liu-Xiaobos-wife-pens-letter-to-leader-20130614 A popular newspaper has urged China's leadership to milk a former US contractor for more information rather than send him home, saying his revelations concern China's national interest. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Chinese-paper-Snowden-could-be-useful-20130614 China's latest manned space craft, the Shenzhou-10 has docked with their space station the Tiangong-1. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Shenzhou-10-docks-with-space-lab-20130613 South Africa and China will work together on labour issues, such as collective bargaining and industrial relations, says Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/SA-China-to-team-up-on-labour-issues-20130613 A Fin24 user with a fencing startup is thinking of a joint venture with a Chinese supplier and wants to know if this would be a good move. http://www.fin24.com/Entrepreneurs/Question-And-Answers/Is-a-Chinese-firm-a-good-JV-partner-20130613 Chinese state security officials have detained a journalist who recently disappeared after completing a documentary on labour camp abuses, says the photographer's sister and close friend. http://www.news24.com/World/News/China-detains-labour-abuse-journalist-20130613 Three Chinese astronauts entered a space module after carrying out a successful docking manoeuvre, state media has said. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/China-astronauts-enter-space-module-20130613 Thousands of men travelled from rural China to seek their fortunes mining gold in west Africa - but now their dreams are in tatters with a wave of arrests and allegations of deadly violence. http://www.news24.com/World/News/China-miners-African-gold-rush-tarnished-20130613 China says it "has no information to offer" about a former US government subcontractor who exposed massive US phone and internet spying and has taken refuge in Hong Kong. http://www.news24.com/World/News/No-information-to-offer-on-Snowden-China-20130613 Tibetans setting themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule are having little effect on Beijing's policies, says exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Dalai-Lama-Self-immolation-not-much-use-20130613