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Chinese bank gets approval for 1st US branch (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 03:46 AM CST AP - State-owned China Construction Bank Corp., the country's second-largest commercial lender, said Tuesday it has received U.S. government approval to open its first United States branch in New York City.

China shares retreat on profit-taking (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:31 AM CST AP - Chinese shares fell Tuesday for the first time in a week on profit-taking as investors sold financial and real estate stocks that gained in previous sessions.

China's Chery says talks with Chrysler scrapped (AFP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:04 AM CST AFP - Struggling US auto giant Chrysler has ended cooperation talks with China's largest independent car maker Chery Automotive Co, citing the global economic slowdown, the Chinese company said Tuesday.

Public security forces undermine China's HIV fight: rights group (AFP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:49 AM CST AFP - The harassment and imprisonment of drug users in China is undermining the country's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, activist group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Chinese factory workers protest unpaid salary (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:37 AM CST AP - Hundreds of workers gathered outside a Shanghai electrical components factory this week to demand pay and protest layoffs, as recession-related unrest spread to China's commercial capital.

China media reports psychiatric hospital abuse (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:16 AM CST AP - A Chinese newspaper report alleging authorities locked up people in mental hospitals for criticizing the state and filing complaints about corruption has focused rare attention on the usually taboo topic of psychiatric abuse in China.

30 years after reform, China farmers once again hope for change (AFP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 12:21 AM CST AFP - Thirty years ago, 18 farmers in this rural backwater of east China entered a pact to carry out a bold economic experiment, and became heroes of reform almost overnight.

Chrysler, China's Chery call off cooperation talks (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:31 PM CST AP - Chrysler and China's biggest domestic automaker said Tuesday they have called off talks on cooperation due to the global financial crisis.

Young Chinese face the unknown - economic hardship (Reuters) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:18 PM CST Reuters - While his father grew up wondering where his next meal would come from, Beijing resident Ran Zhao wonders whether he should buy a car, study in the United States or try to build up his fledgling snake medicine business.

China to probe mental hospital abuses: state media (AFP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:04 PM CST AFP - Chinese authorities are probing charges that a city in the east of the country locked up citizens in mental hospitals to prevent them complaining about local injustices, state press said Tuesday.

China ups efforts to rid food of illegal additives (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 10:58 PM CST AP - China is launching a four-month food safety campaign Wednesday that will include inspections of food makers to weed out illegal or excessive chemicals in food, in the country's latest move to restore trust hurt by a tainted milk scandal.

Winter and economy chilling China quake zone (Reuters) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 10:36 PM CST Reuters - Seven months after the Sichuan earthquake leveled wide swathes of southwest China, millions of victims are battling biting cold and a fast-cooling economy to rebuild their shattered lives.

Crackdown on drugs hurts China AIDS fight: report (Reuters) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 07:03 PM CST Reuters - China's efforts to combat the spread of AIDS among drug users is being undermined by its harsh treatment of drug addicts, Human Rights Watch warned in a report Tuesday.

Official: China wants to put $10B in Brazil oil (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:57 PM CST AP - China wants to loan Brazil's state oil company $10 billion to help develop massive new oil fields in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's top energy official said in comments published Monday.

Sarkozy praises China amid uproar over Dalai Lama (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:41 AM CST AP - France sought to assuage Chinese feelings on Monday after President Nicolas Sarkozy's weekend meeting with the Dalai Lama, hoping to avoid a repetition of the backlash against French goods sparked by pro-Tibetan protests on the streets of Paris earlier this year.

China court refuses to accept tainted milk lawsuit (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 07:26 AM CST AP - A court on Monday refused to accept a lawsuit filed against a Chinese dairy by dozens of families who said their children were sickened or killed by tainted milk, lawyers involved in the case said.

"Made in China" label battered by product scandals (Reuters) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 07:18 AM CST Reuters - Milk, toothpaste, cough syrup, pet food, eels, blood thinner, car parts, pork, eggs, honey, chicken, dumplings, cooking oil and rice -- if you can fake it or taint it, you can almost guarantee it's happened in China.

China auto sales fall in November (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 05:24 AM CST AP - China's passenger car sales fell 10.3 percent in November from a year earlier as stalling economic growth sapped consumer confidence, state media reports said Monday.

Dalai Lama says oppression continues in Tibet (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 04:59 AM CST AP - The Dalai Lama says conditions in Tibet have "not improved at all" since the Olympics Games in Beijing.

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