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Tibet unrest looms in post-Dalai Lama era (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:36 AM CDT

Reuters - A spell in hospital by the Dalai Lama highlights enormous complexities likely to arise when the 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner does pass away.

Coca-Cola to buy China juice maker for $2.4bln (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:28 AM CDT

AFP - Coca Cola moved Wednesday to further strengthen its global reach by announcing plans to buy Huiyuan Juice Group for 2.4 billion dollars, the US soft drink maker's biggest acquisition in China.

China premier warns of winter hardship in quake zone (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 02:08 AM CDT

AFP - Premier Wen Jiabao has warned winter will bring hardship for people in China's quake zone, as he indicated the confirmed death toll from the disaster was over 80,000, state media reported Wednesday.

China reopens major highway destroyed by quake (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 12:29 AM CDT

AP - Workers reopened a major highway in southwestern China that was destroyed by a massive earthquake in May, speeding up rebuilding efforts, state media said Wednesday.

China warns of post-quake hardship as winter nears (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 09:24 PM CDT

Reuters - China faces tough tasks rebuilding homes and roads across its earthquake-hit southwest as winter approaches, Premier Wen Jiabao said near the epicenter of the devastating May 12 quake.

Correction: China Tibet Monastery story (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 11:21 AM CDT

AP - In an Aug. 29 story about the reopening of Drepung Monastery in Tibet, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a journalist who visited the region in July and mentioned the monastery in an online posting. The journalist's name is Kathleen McLaughlin, not Catherine McLoughlin.

China allocates nearly four million dollars for Sichuan earthquake (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 10:45 AM CDT

AFP - China allocated nearly four million dollars Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people.

US says no clean-energy exports to China affected by controls (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 09:09 AM CDT

AFP - The United States does not maintain controls on clean energy exports, a senior American trade envoy said Tuesday, while addressing Chinese concerns over billions of dollars in potential trade.