China Launches $1B Africa Fund
China launched a $1 billion fund Tuesday to finance trade and investment by Chinese companies in Africa as part of efforts to nurture commercial ties with the resource-rich continent.
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Activists Criticize China Media Controls
Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday criticized China's new controls on foreign news agencies as harmful to Chinese society and a possible threat to coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. -
China Trying to Tighten Media Control
BEIJING - China's jailing of a Hong Kong reporter as a spy reflects a deepening dilemma for the communist government: how to tighten control over information in an increasingly open, Internet-savvy s
