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May 07, 2012
In particularly disturbing international news, South Korean customs agents have confiscated thousands of pills containing the powdered flesh of dead babies.
May 04, 2012
China said on Friday blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply to study abroad, a move praised by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
May 03, 2012
If this tram's a' rockin', it might fall off its tracks and crash into the ground below.
April 18, 2012
Customers in China love Starbucks so much they stay for hours and hours and sometimes don't even buy a drink.
Baffling food trend: Eggs cooked in urine of Chinese school boys
March 30, 2012
Would you eat eggs cooked in the urine of young boys if it prevented heat stroke or joint pain?
China goes to war against Harry Potter and Lady Gaga
January 05, 2012
As we finish up our "War on Terror", China's Hu Jintao seems to be fighting a "War on Western Pop Culture".
The Kardashians using 'slave labor' for their fashion lines
December 21, 2011
Are Chinese teenagers is squalid working conditions making the lavish designs of the Kardashian fashion brands?
China to hit US auto imports with duties
December 18, 2011
China will impose punitive duties of up to 22 percent on large cars and SUVs exported from the United States, China’s Commerce Ministry said last week. It’s the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world’s two largest economies.
Christian Bale assaulted by Chinese guards
December 16, 2011
Christian Bale gets punched and shoved by Chinese guards upon attempting to visit a blind lawyer who was illegally confined to his home.
Big trouble brewing for Chinatown?
December 06, 2011
China’s downtown enclave in Lower Manhattan is shrinking and some Chinatown residents say it’s because their homeland’s booming economy is beckoning.
Pakistan lets China in on chopper
August 14, 2011
Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown “stealth” helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported yesterday.
China eyed in barrage of hackings
August 03, 2011
Security experts announced yesterday the discovery of an unprecedented series of cyber attacks spanning five years that affected the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations.
Ai Weiwei: Celebrated artist free after months of captivity
June 22, 2011
Renowned artist Ai Weiwei, 54, was released by the Chinese government yesterday after months of incarceration.
In China, leper stigma sticks
June 13, 2011
For decades, China’s lepers were forgotten about on the remote Dajin Island. Construction works have forced them back onto the mainland.
Feds track Gmail hack; China denial
June 02, 2011
Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.
How do you say ‘Google’ in Chinese? Try Baidu
May 30, 2011
Google has come to dominate our lifestyle, so much so that we have a verb for it. But in China, that word falls on deaf ears, thanks to the dominance of Baidu.
What songs would have been appropriate for Bob Dylan to sing in China?
April 11, 2011
Something is happening, and Maureen Dowd doesn't know what it is.
Police smother call for protests
February 27, 2011
An online call for anti-government protests across China yesterday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East.
China rising to occasion
January 20, 2011
Just in case you are wondering, let me confirm that I’d make a lousy president. There is no way that I could have survived the visit of China’s President Hu Jintao this week without provoking some kind of international incident which would no doubt be known for years afterward as the Abbott and Costello Affair.
Pressure on China
January 20, 2011
Lawmakers pressed China’s President Hu Jintao to get tough on North Korea and improve human rights on Thursday, but trod more softly on the currency dispute that is a major irritant between the world's top two economies.
US, China play nice, strike deal for $45B
January 19, 2011
The United States and China unveiled $45 billion in export deals yesterday as Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao sought to paper over deep rifts about trade, money and security.
Chinese ties urged
January 10, 2011
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart said stronger military ties were needed to avoid missteps between the two global giants.
China to lead in innovation
December 05, 2010
China is set to become the world’s most important center for innovation by 2020, according to a public opinion survey published today.
China: We didn’t hack Internet
November 18, 2010
China Telecom Corp., the nation’s biggest fixed-line phone carrier, denied it hijacked Internet traffic, after a U.S. government report said the company wrongly diverted international Web data.
Two Chinese face trial in US
October 27, 2010
Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Hungary and are awaiting extradition to the United States, where they face charges of seeking to buy microchips banned from export to China, state media said yesterday.
Countries’ boat battle deepens
September 20, 2010
BEIJING. China suspended high-level exchanges with Japan
yesterday and promised tough countermeasures after a Japanese court
extended the detention of a Chinese captain whose trawler collided with
two Japanese coast guard ships.
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