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China says 19 nationals freed from Myanmar kidnap (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:54 AM CST

Reuters - Chinese police said 19 nationals reported kidnapped to Myanmar from a north Chinese city have been freed after families paid ransoms to captors who forced the mostly teenage victims to gamble themselves into deep debt.

Parents express anger over China milk verdicts (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:44 AM CST

AFP - Angry parents of victims in China's milk scandal accused the government Friday of holding show trials and giving little help to their sick children, after the high-profile sentencing of 21 people.

China: Parents of milk victims demand better deal (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 01:48 AM CST

AP - Chinese parents whose children were sickened after drinking contaminated milk pushed the government for greater accountability and compensation Friday, a day after a court handed down two death penalties and long prison terms for 19 other defendants.

China closes 1,250 sites in online porn crackdown (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 11:54 PM CST

AP - China has closed down 1,250 Web sites in its latest crackdown on online pornography but still faces an uphill task in regulating the unwieldy Internet for vulgar content, an official said Friday.

GDP growth declines in China's Guangdong province (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 11:16 PM CST

AP - Guangdong province, China's biggest manufacturing base, has reported a sharp drop in economic growth in 2008 as global financial woes hammered the region often called the "world's factory floor."

China parents press demands in wake of milk sentences (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 10:49 PM CST

Reuters - Chinese parents of children stricken by toxic milk pressed compensation demands on Friday, a day after a court sentenced two people to death and jailed 19 over the scandal in which six infants died.

China ready to mend ties with France: govt (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 01:22 PM CST

AFP - China said Thursday it was ready to mend ties with France following a deep row over Tibet, in its first conciliatory move since tensions flared last year.