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Brazil's Lula signs oil, financial agreements with China (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 09:27 AM PDT AFP - Brazil's president said Tuesday in China that the two nations had achieved a century's worth of results in a mere generation, as he witnessed the signing of several large business deals cementing ties.

Petrobras agrees $10 bln loan from Chinese bank (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 08:45 AM PDT AFP - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras Tuesday signed a 10-billion-dollar loan agreement with Beijing-controlled China Development Bank to fund its strategic needs, the company's chairman told reporters.

Brazil's Silva looks to boost ties with China (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 07:54 AM PDT AP - China and Brazil signed a raft of agreements Tuesday including a $10 billion loan for the South American country's state energy company and a deal to send oil to China amid stronger ties between the two developing world giants.

China defends Tiananmen crackdown, ignores memoir (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 07:08 AM PDT AP - China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday defended the brutal quelling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, while ignoring questions about a new memoir by a former Communist Party leader ousted for opposing the crackdown.

Coke steps up China juice marketing (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 04:57 AM PDT AFP - Coca-Cola on Tuesday launched a juice marketing offensive in China, making good on a vow to put more power behind its brands after Beijing shot down its bid to buy a leading Chinese juice maker.

China boosts subsidies for car, appliance buyers (AP) Posted: 19 May 2009 03:39 AM PDT AP - China will subsidize purchases of cars and home appliances to replace older models, expanding a program first introduced in rural areas to major cities, the government said Tuesday in its latest move to stimulate the economy.

China brushes aside Zhao's Tiananmen memoirs (Reuters) Posted: 19 May 2009 02:37 AM PDT Reuters - A Chinese government spokesman on Tuesday brushed aside questions about a top official purged for opposing the armed crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, saying the official verdict on the demonstrations still stood.

China releases last Tiananmen 'hooligan' (AFP) Posted: 19 May 2009 01:07 AM PDT AFP - The last known prisoner incarcerated for "hooliganism" during China's 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement has been released after nearly 20 years in jail, a US-based rights group said.

AP reporter quarantined in China after Cancun stop (AP) Posted: 18 May 2009 10:50 PM PDT AP - There are four of them waiting for us, tottering about the hotel parking lot in yellow biohazard suits.

Last Tiananmen 'hooligan' released from prison (AP) Posted: 18 May 2009 09:41 PM PDT AP - The last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the suppression, a rights group said Tuesday.

New target in China graft sweep (AP) Posted: 18 May 2009 08:43 PM PDT AP - A senior official in southern Guangdong province has been detained in an apparent corruption sweep that has already targeted other major figures in the wealthy region on the cutting-edge of China's economic reforms.

Report: Chinese climber dies on Everest (AP) Posted: 18 May 2009 08:30 PM PDT AP - An amateur Chinese mountain climber died of altitude sickness early Tuesday while descending Mount Everest on the Chinese side just hours after reaching the summit, state media reported.

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