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China's panda programme struggling after quake (AFP) Posted: 08 May 2009 07:54 AM PDT AFP - China's quest to save the giant panda has been hit hard by last year's massive Sichuan earthquake, which destroyed a vital food source, inhibited its sex drive and sent tourism revenues diving.

Mystery worms turn on northwest China herdsmen (Reuters) Posted: 08 May 2009 07:00 AM PDT Reuters - An invasion of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said Friday.

Cause of China quake school collapses not yet found (AFP) Posted: 08 May 2009 05:53 AM PDT AFP - China said Friday it had not yet identified why a large number of schools collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, killing thousands of students and devastating bereaved parents.

China vehicle sales hit monthly high of 1.15 mln (AP) Posted: 08 May 2009 05:10 AM PDT AP - China's vehicle sales jumped 25 percent in April from the year before to a record monthly high of 1.15 million units, according to industry figures released Friday.

China vice premier: world economy to get worse (AP) Posted: 08 May 2009 03:40 AM PDT AP - The global financial crisis is still spreading and the world economy is going to get worse before getting better, China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan said in a commentary published Friday.

ExxonMobil starts work on Shanghai tech centre (AFP) Posted: 08 May 2009 12:32 AM PDT AFP - ExxonMobil Chemical broke ground on a 70-million-dollar research and development centre in Shanghai that it says will refocus the global company on growth in Asia.

BOC to withdraw from financing venture with Peugeot (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2009 11:08 PM PDT AFP - Bank of China, one of the country's leading state-run banks, said it is selling its stake in an auto-financing venture with local maker Dongfeng Motors Group and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen.

A year on, China quake survivors face uncertain future (Reuters) Posted: 07 May 2009 09:26 PM PDT Reuters - A massive earthquake toppled Huang Liangju's house a year ago, and she still winces when the hills shudder above her makeshift shelter of planks and plastic sheets.

World must pressure China over Tiananmen: dissidents (AFP) Posted: 07 May 2009 08:40 PM PDT AFP - Dissident victims of China's crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have called for world pressure on Beijing to reverse the official verdict on the incident as its 20th anniversary is approaching.

China vice premier says world economy to worsen: report (Reuters) Posted: 07 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT Reuters - China's vice premier Wang Qishan said the global financial crisis is spreading and the economy will get worse before it gets better, in a written article in the Financial Times on Friday.

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