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Radioactive material found in China: state media (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:11 PM PDT AFP - Chinese authorities said late Friday they had found potentially deadly radioactive material that went missing from a factory earlier this week, state press reported.

China challenges US global financial leadership (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:04 AM PDT AP - The only major economy still growing at a fast clip, China is being unusually forthright in challenging the U.S.-led global order ahead of an April 2 summit on the financial crisis.

China marks 50 years since exile of Dalai Lama (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PDT AP - Testimonials about the misery of life in old Tibet kicked off celebrations Friday for the newest holiday on China's political calendar — an anniversary that marks the communist government's overturning of the region's feudal hierarchy.

Tibet's Panchen Lama, Beijing's propaganda tool (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 07:46 AM PDT AFP - China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure is increasingly being used by Beijing as a tool in its propaganda offensive against the exiled Dalai Lama, say experts.

Chinalco 'agrees loans' to fund Rio Tinto deal (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 06:51 AM PDT AFP - Aluminum Corp of China, or Chinalco, signed loan agreements Friday with four Chinese banks to fund its 19.5-billion-dollar investment in mining giant Rio Tinto, Chinese state media said.

China: 37 die in 2 unrelated bus accidents (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:17 AM PDT AP - A minibus collided with two trucks and a bus tumbled into a mountain gorge in two unrelated crashes Friday, killing a total of 37 people, police and a state news agency reported.

Radioactive material lost in China: state media (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:44 AM PDT AFP - Chinese authorities have ordered an all-out search for a missing nuclear scale that contained a dangerous radioactive component, state press said Friday.

Chinalco 'to agree loan' to fund Rio Tinto deal (AFP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:36 AM PDT AFP - Aluminum Corp of China, or Chinalco, was to sign a loan agreement Friday with four Chinese banks to fund its 19.5-billion-dollar investment in mining giant Rio Tinto, Chinese media said.

Australia sets conditions on China mine purchase (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:03 AM PDT AP - Australia threw up an obstacle Friday to a state-owned Chinese metals company's bid to acquire miner Oz Minerals Ltd., saying the purchase cannot include a key gold and copper mine in a military area.

Second soldier attacked in southwest China: group (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:08 AM PDT Reuters - A Chinese soldier was stabbed and wounded by an unidentified assailant, a rights groups said on Friday, days after a soldier was shot dead in a nearby city, attacks likely to worry stability-obsessed Beijing.

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:28 AM PDT AP - Chinese health officials said Friday that hand, foot and mouth disease has sickened 41,000 people across the country and killed 18 children so far this year.

Tibet serf debate shadows China's "emancipation day" (Reuters) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:24 AM PDT Reuters - Lots of salty yak butter tea and an end to harsh beatings marked the start of the 1960s for farmer Kigya, who grew up shackled to the estate of a local nobleman by the inherited ties that once bound most Tibetans.

Analysis: Clinton pushes for stronger China role (AP) Posted: 27 Mar 2009 12:36 AM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has moved aggressively and quickly to secure a stronger role in what she has called the world's most important relationship: U.S. dealings with China. But military and economic tensions between the two powers keep getting in her way.

China's Panchen Lama criticizes "unscrupulous" foes (Reuters) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 11:53 PM PDT Reuters - The young Tibetan anointed by China as its Buddhist figurehead for the region said Tibet faces assaults on stability from an "unscrupulous" individual, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled denunciation of the Dalai Lama.

China says industrial profits down 37 percent (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:53 PM PDT AP - Profits at China's oil producers, steel makers and other major industrial companies fell sharply in January and February as sales were battered by the global economic crisis, data showed Friday.

Beijing puts Tibet's Panchen Lama on show (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:23 PM PDT AFP - China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure is increasingly being used by Beijing as a tool in its propaganda offensive against the exiled Dalai Lama, say experts.

China aviation giant spins off branch: report (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:54 PM PDT AFP - China's largest aircraft maker has spun off a 7.3 billion dollar independent defence manufacturing branch that will seek to produce top military hardware for global markets, state media said Friday.

China says Pentagon report will hurt military ties (Reuters) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 05:41 PM PDT Reuters - The United States' latest report on China's growing military power throws new obstacles in the way of restoring defense ties between the two powers, a Chinese spokesman said in the latest broadside at Washington.

China court rejects appeal in tainted milk scandal (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:05 AM PDT AFP - A court in northern China on Thursday upheld a sentence of life in prison for the former head of the company at the centre of last year's scandal over contaminated milk, state media reported.

China court upholds 5 sentences in milk scandal (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 07:48 AM PDT AP - An appeals court Thursday reaffirmed death sentences of three people for their roles in contaminating milk that sickened tens of thousands of babies, making it almost certain they will be executed in one of China's worst food safety scandals.

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