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International Herald Tribune - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
Eight Buddhist monks convicted of bombing a government building in Tibet during an anti-government uprising in March have been sentenced to prison, two of them for life terms, a judge said Tuesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 14, 6:44 am EDT
China is ordering all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be taken off the shelves for melamine testing, a news report said Tuesday, the first time Beijing has issued a blanket recall of products since the tainted dairy scandal broke last month.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 14, 6:02 am EDT
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari hailed China as "the future of the world" ahead of his arrival in Beijing on Tuesday for a trip that is expected to see him seek urgent financial help.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 14, 3:06 am EDT
China's defense minister has demanded that the U.S. cancel a $6.5 billion arms sale to Taiwan, saying it created "obstacles" in relations between Beijing and Washington.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 14, 7:43 am EDT
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in China Tuesday for a trip that was expected to see him seek help for his country's embattled economy and the expansion of its nuclear energy industry.
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ABC News - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
China jails 8 Buddhist monks found guilty of bombing building in Tibet.
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Newsday - Tue Oct 14, 2:22 am EDT
BEIJING (AP) _ Eight Buddhist monks convicted of bombing a government building in Tibet during an anti-government uprising in March have been sentenced to prison, two of them for life, a judge said Tuesday.
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UPI - Tue Oct 14, 6:41 am EDT
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- China's trade surplus in September, driven by slowing imports, hit a record $29.3 billion, up 22.59 percent from the same month of last year.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Oct 14, 7:31 am EDT
Beijing - A court in China's Tibet Autonomous Region has sentenced eight Tibetan monks to between five years and life in prison after convicting them of bombing a local government office, the London-based Free Tibet Campaign said on Tuesday. The grou...
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Los Angeles Times - Tue Oct 14, 6:27 am EDT
BEIJING -- China and Russia have jointly unveiled boundary markers in a final step toward resolving a territorial dispute along their eastern border.
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UPI - Tue Oct 14, 6:46 am EDT
BEIJING, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Asif Ali Zardari, on his first trip to China since becoming president of Pakistan, planned to show the world "how close" are the ties between the two nations.
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New York Times - 4 minutes ago
China ordered a recall of all milk products produced before Sept. 14 and still on the shelves so the products can be tested for the chemical melamine.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Oct 14, 7:09 am EDT
China's trade surplus with the United States held steady at $17.5 billion in September, the national customs agency announced Tuesday.
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Journal of Commerce Online - 9 minutes ago
China saw its global trade surplus hit a record $29.3 billion in September, up 22.59 percent from the same month a year ago, the Beijing government announced.
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Bloomberg - Tue Oct 14, 7:21 am EDT
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Air China Ltd. , facing its first drop in full-year domestic traffic since 2003, forecast an increase of as much as 10 percent next year as the nation's growth shields the carrier from a global economic slowdown.
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Bloomberg - Tue Oct 14, 6:41 am EDT
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China's foreign-exchange reserves rose to a world record $1.906 trillion, helping to strengthen the nation's finances as the credit crisis threatens to trigger a global economic slump.
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Bloomberg - Tue Oct 14, 6:36 am EDT
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- China's stocks fell, with the benchmark index reversing gains in the last half hour of trading, led by steelmakers and brokerages on signs of slowing earnings.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Oct 14, 1:16 am EDT
Beijing - As house sales and prices tumble in China amid heightened uncertainty brought by the global financial turmoil, millions of would-be first-time buyers are locked in a standoff with giant, government-backed property developers. Developers ex...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Oct 13, 7:49 am EDT
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis hopes to sell 25 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine annually into China's largely untapped domestic market once its plant in the southern city of Shenzhen goes onstream in 2012.
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Nasdaq - Tue Oct 14, 7:17 am EDT
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China Premier Wen Jiabao said the global financial turmoil is having a limited impact on China that is controllable.