China's bad bet against US Gulf News | Chinese-American relations are, once again, in a downswing. China objected to President Barack Obama receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration's arms sales to Taiwan. There was ample precedent for both American decisions, but some Chinese leaders expected Obama ...
Google to pull out of China: report The Examiner | Google is 99.9 percent certain to shut down its Chinese search engine, google.cn, after coming to an impasse with Chinese authorities, according to report in the Financial Times. The report cites an unnamed source "familiar with the company’s thinking." | It's been slightly more th...
Google to pull out of China: report The Examiner | Google is 99.9 percent certain to shut down its Chinese search engine, google.cn, after coming to an impasse with Chinese authorities, according to report in the Financial Times. The report cites an unnamed source "familiar with the company&rs...
Google, China continue Internet censorship battle The Columbus Dispatch | BEIJING - One of China's top Internet regulators bluntly warned yesterday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response from the Beijing government. | The statement by Li Yizh...
Funding for high-speed railway network adequate: official China Daily | BEIJING - An official with the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said on Saturday that China has sufficient money to finance the high-speed railway construction boom on the back of multiple sources of funding. | Yu Bangli, chief economist with MOR, said t...
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Google 99.9% sure to shut China search engine: Report The Times Of India SHANGHAI: Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 per cent" certain to shut its Chinese search...
Heavy security in Tibet ahead of protests' anniversary BBC News | The Chinese security forces have launched a "strike hard campaign" ahead of the second anniversary of riots and protests in Tibet against Chinese rule. | Special police...
China rejects calls to close down tiger farms Zeenews Beijing: China has rejected the calls by India and international community to close down its tiger farms, blamed for perpetuating trade in tiger body parts, saying that the sharp d...
9 killed in construction site accident in S. China city China Daily | SHENZHEN - Nine people were confirmed dead and one injured at a construction site of a residential building in south China's Shenzhen City Saturday afternoon. | The information office of the Shenzhen city government said the accident happened at ar...
At least 13 die in bus oveturn in south China China Daily | GUANGZHOU -Â At least 13 people have been killed after a passenger bus overturned Saturday in south China's Guangdong Province, local officials said. | The accident happened at around 1 p.m. in Huizhou City. The injured have been hospitalized, said...
China steelmakers want govt in ore talks China Daily | SHANGHAI/BEIJING - The vice president of the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) and the heads of more than 10 Chinese steelmakers wrote a joint letter to Premier Wen Jiabao on March 11, asking him to take up the issue of rising iron ore import prices at a national level, the China Securities Journal reported on Saturday, quo...
China should respect Tibetans' human rights: HRW Zeenews Washington: A leading human rights body on Saturday asked China to respect rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in responding to protests in Lhasa and other part of Tibet during the anniversary of March 2008 agitations by Tibetans. | On the eve of the second anniversary of the March 14, 2008, protests in the Tibetan areas, Human Ri...
