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China guaranteed its first gold medal at the East Asian Games with victories in both semifinals of the men's snooker competition Friday. China is expected to dominate the nine-region event after a successful Olympic campaign on home turf -- it won 51 gold medals in Beijing last year -- and it locked up its first gold medal a day before the official start of competition.
China are expected to dominate the medals table at the East Asian Games, bringing a powerful squad to Hong Kong including star hurdler Liu Xiang, "diving queen" Guo Jingjing and badminton idol Lin Dan.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China Vanke Co. Chairman Wang Shi said real-estate bubbles in some of China’s biggest cities may spread to other places in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an interview with Wang.
A young giant panda who became a major draw after his birth at Washington's National Zoo will return to China next year for breeding.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell, paring a weekly gain for the benchmark index, as mining companies declined on lower metals prices. Zijin Mining Group Co.
In a bid to raise cash to cover losses at its South Korean subsidiary, G.M. may be giving up influence in China, an analyst said.
Xinhua Sports & Entertainment Limited , a leading sports and entertainment media company in China, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire NuCom Online Corporation .
Tai Shan, the Washington National Zoo's only surviving giant panda cub born in captivity and a huge attraction, will return to China early next year.
TAISHAN, China -- Hundreds, maybe thousands, of towers rise from the rice fields here in a tableau that is more Tuscan countryside than Chinese landscape.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Soybeans gained in Chicago, reversing an earlier decline, after China said imports this month may rise to an all-time high.
Supporters of top Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo on Friday urged continued international pressure on Beijing as they prepare to mark the first anniversary of his detention.
President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly altered the timing of his upcoming appearance at an international climate summit in Copenhagen, hoping to capitalize on steps by India and China and build a more meaningful political accord, a White House official told The Associated Press. The move means Obama will be at the summit on Dec. 18, considered a crucial period when more leaders will be in ...
China has announced that five more people have been sentenced to death for murder and other crimes committed during riots that rocked the western Xinjiang region in July.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of China Ltd. and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. rose in Shanghai trading as remarks by the industry regulator eased concerns that banks will have to raise funds to comply with stricter capital rules.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai’s debt crisis should be a “wake-up call” for China, which needs to prevent a similar situation in its “speculation-driven” property market, said a researcher with China’s Academy of Social Sciences.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia can’t replicate the “high single digit” economic growth of China and India because of impediments to investment and high credit costs, according to Credit Suisse Group AG.
The main Chinese partner of General Motors Co. has suspended trading in its shares amid press reports that GM plans to sell the automaker about half its India operations and one percent of its China car business.
Washington's National Zoo is sending its beloved four-year-old panda, Tai Shan, to China under the terms of a loan agreement that brought the cub's parents to the nation's capital.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Shanghai Futures Exchange may launch a range of new futures including silver and lead contracts, the China Securities Journal reported today, citing Yang Maijun, president of the exchange.
Amnesty International reported today that China's Supreme Court must carefully review the death sentences imposed on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China.
Chanos sees a bubble in China, China sees a bubble in gold and Bernanke sees no bubbles at all.
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