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Digital Publisher of the Year | Saturday 02 January 2010 | China feed
2010 will prove a tricky 12 months at home after a year in which China gained international standing.
The emerging superpower took centre-stage as its leaders got down to business on the world stage.
Mentally disabled Chinese peasants are being kidnapped and made to work in illegal mines, before being murdered in fake accidents for compensation money.
A free-trade zone spanning more than 1.9 billion people will come into life on Jan 1, as China and 10 South-East Asian countries unite to scrap tariffs.
Chinese Communist Party officials are rushing to have cosmetic surgery as they face ever-growing media attention.
China arrested more than 5,000 people in 2009 in a drive to purge the internet of pornography and other "harmful information".
Telegraph View: In coping with the distinguishing features of the past decade, America and its allies need both to accept the limits of military power and to assert their own democratic values.
These pictures show a baby panda trying – and failing – to make a clean getaway from her playpen in the Sichuan Province, China.
A senior Tibetan religious leader, known as a "Living Buddha", has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after being arrested in the wake of protests last year.
Chinese Communist Party officials are rushing to have cosmetic surgery as they face ever-growing media attention.
China arrested more than 5,000 people in 2009 in a drive to purge the internet of pornography and other "harmful information".
Telegraph View: In coping with the distinguishing features of the past decade, America and its allies need both to accept the limits of military power and to assert their own democratic values.
These pictures show a baby panda trying – and failing – to make a clean getaway from her playpen in the Sichuan Province, China.
A senior Tibetan religious leader, known as a "Living Buddha", has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after being arrested in the wake of protests last year.
A well-known Chinese film director has returned to the big screen with his first comedy - a remake of the Coen brothers' Blood Simple - that has drawn the crowds despite sharp criticism.
In a sign of growing military military confidence, China's rapidly-expanding navy considers first foreign naval base.
Bipolar disorder, from which Akmal Shaikh is believed to have suffered, was formerly known as manic depression and involves extreme mood swings from deep depression to overactive “mania”.
Chinese embassy refers to the role Britain played in supplying opium to China following the execution of Akmal Shaikh.
Telegraph View: Gordon Brown shouldn't risk a diplomatic row with the Chinese.
With hindsight we can see that two events within days of each other in late 2001 brought about an epochal change in the world's strategic system.
For China, 2009 was a momentous year. John Foley looks at the challenges the country faces in 2010.
CNR Corp, one of China's top two train makers, limped in with a lukewarm market debut after its $2bn IPO in Shanghai, signalling investors' intolerance for high valuations as a flood of new equity awaits next year.
Ford has reached an agreement to sell Volvo to China's biggest private car group, providing some rare good news for Sweden's automotive industry.
European Union ministers have voted in favour of extending import duties by 15 months on shoes imported from China and Vietnam – despite opposition from member states including the UK.
Leadership coach Steve Tappin is so convinced of the potential of Chinese companies that he gave his business a Chinese name, Xinfu, when he set it up last January.
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has traditionally lived up to its name when managing its $2 trillion portfolio of foreign reserves.
China’s currency regulator, which oversees the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserves, has hired Changhong Zhu from Pimco as its chief investment officer.
The annual "Outrageous Predictions" of Denmark's Saxo Bank are not for the faint-hearted.
Esprit, the Hong Kong-listed lifestyle brand with 800 stores around the world and a vast global wholesale operation, is buying out its venture partner in mainland China as it looks to boost its presence in the country.
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