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Taiwan's leader, Chinese envoy meet amid protests (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 03:03 AM CST AP - Taiwan's president and the most senior Communist Chinese official to ever visit the island held a brief but historic meeting Thursday, capping what the Taiwanese leader described as a successful trip even as anti-China protesters battled police outside.

China rejects 'semi-independence' for Tibet: state media (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:56 AM CST AFP - A senior Chinese official told envoys of the Dalai Lama in Beijing that even "semi-independence" for Tibet was out of the question, Chinese state media said Thursday.

Agricultural Bank of China receives 19-billion-dollar bailout (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:42 AM CST AFP - Agricultural Bank of China said it signed an agreement Thursday for a 19-billion-dollar government cash injection as it took a decisive step in its preparations for an eventual stock listing.

Chinese stocks resume slide amid regional slump (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:35 AM CST AP - Chinese shares resumed their slide Thursday as regional markets followed declines overnight on Wall Street. Miners and financials led the drop.

Taiwan's Ma meets China envoy as thousands protest (Reuters) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 01:54 AM CST Reuters - Taiwan's president met briefly on Thursday with a Chinese official in one of the highest-level contacts between the two sides since the Chinese civil war, while thousands of protesters clashed with riot police outside.

China flexes military hardware muscle (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 12:56 AM CST AFP - China's unprecedented display of military hardware at the country's primary airshow was a warning to industry rivals of its global ambitions as a defence manufacturer, analysts said.

China points finger at foreign milk products (Reuters) Posted: 06 Nov 2008 12:46 AM CST Reuters - China, embroiled in a tainted milk scandal that has made thousands of infants sick, has published a list of foreign companies that failed to meet quality standards for imported products ranging from milk powder to rosewater.

Five dead as truck targets crowd outside China school: state media (AFP) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 10:36 PM CST AFP - Five people, mostly students, were killed and about 20 others injured after a man intentionally drove a truck into a crowd outside a high school in southern China, state media reported Thursday.

China to spend $146 bln on quake reconstruction (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 09:41 PM CST Reuters - China will spend 1 trillion yuan ($146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the Sichuan earthquake, local media reported on Thursday, citing the country's top planning agency.

4 people killed after truck driver rams students (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 08:51 PM CST AP - State media says a truck driver killed 4 people and injured 20 by driving into a crowd of high school students coming out of class in southern China.

Teens killed when man drives truck into China school (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 06:17 PM CST Reuters - At least four people were killed and 20 injured when a man seeking revenge for a traffic dispute with police drove his truck into a crowded schoolyard in southern China, the Xinhua news agency said late Wednesday.

China sentences 55 Tibet protesters over riots (AP) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 12:21 PM CST AP - The Chinese government has sentenced 55 people in connection with deadly riots in March protesting Beijing's rule over Tibet, state media reported late Tuesday.

China vows closer Latin American ties ahead of Hu visit (AFP) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 10:31 AM CST AFP - China vowed closer trade, energy and military ties with Latin American and Caribbean countries in a policy paper released on Wednesday ahead of a planned trip to the region by President Hu Jintao.

China commissions huge telescope near Beijing (Reuters) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 06:34 AM CST Reuters - China is commissioning a strangely shaped telescope in the forested hills northeast of Beijing that Chinese scientists said will be the world's most efficient tool for mapping the galaxy in three dimensions.

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