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China's grab for Congo's mineral wealth is behind the current wave of fightingToday

Exactly 100 years ago the behaviour of colonial agents of Belgian King Leopold II provoked just that. Then, Congo was "the issue," igniting a publicity firestorm from Europe to the US that drew vast crowds to public debates to condemn the behaviour of Leopold's representatives as they pillaged the Congo river basin for natural rubber. Today, history is repeating itself, with China, not Belgium, leading the exploitation of the country.

Child in US custody fight adjusts to new countryToday

At dinner in a Chinese restaurant near their home Anna He closes her eyes and puts her hands together in Chongqing, China, Friday, Oct.

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered cropsToday

Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.

'See these plants? They can tolerate the cold,' Zeng says as he walks through a checkerboard of test fields sown with different rice varieties on the outskirts of Kunming, capital of southwestern China's Yunnan province.

'We can extract the cold-tolerant gene from this plant and use it in a genetically manipulated variety to improve its cold tolerance,' Zeng says.

Police kill knifeman in Chinese supermarketYesterday

BEIJING: Police yesterday killed a man who was keeping a nurse hostage after stabbing three customers at a branch of supermarket giant Carrefour in China, state media reported.

China pledges to fight AIDS discriminationYesterday

Chinese health authorities and the U.N. AIDS agency pledged to fight discrimination against people with the disease in China with the unveiling Sunday of a massive red ribbon, the symbol of AIDS awareness, at the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing.

Organizers said the fear of being stigmatized at work or in their communities is discouraging many people at risk of HIV infection from being tested. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus.