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Meet Lu Tianna, new U.S. senator (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Jan 2009 09:12 PM CST McClatchy Newspapers - She is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the new Democratic senator from New York State who took Hillary Clinton’s seat, and the word is she speaks Mandarin Chinese. Not only that, she does so with “good, straight tones.”

Lawmakers see efforts to calm Chinese currency row (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:27 PM CST Reuters - President Barack Obama is expected to contact his Chinese counterpart soon and assure Beijing that Washington is not seeking a "currency war" a lawmaker closely involved in U.S.-China issues said on Thursday.

U.S. won't unilaterally block China exports: Biden (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST Reuters - The United States will insist China play by international trade rules, but will not move unilaterally to keep out China's exports, Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.

New species of babbler bird discovered in China (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:09 AM CST AP - A new species of the fist-sized babbler bird has been found in a network of underground caves in southwestern China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday.

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