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China's grip on Tibet tight, but options limited (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 07:41 PM PST Reuters - Tibet is in lockdown, closed to most foreigners. Armed paramilitaries patrol the main city of Lhasa, while police line roads to other towns. Even the movement of locals is restricted.

Months after melamine, China food safety "grim" (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 06:35 PM PST Reuters - China said Monday food security remains "grim," despite campaigns launched after several health scares, the most recent last year's tainted milk formula which killed at least six toddlers and made almost 300,000 sick.

China lunar probe mission ends with planned crash (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 07:57 AM PST AP - China's lunar probe crashed into the moon Sunday in a controlled collision at the end of a 16-month mission, state media reported.

China's lunar probe ends mission (Reuters) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 04:29 AM PST Reuters - China's lunar probe has ended its 16-month life with a planned crash into the moon, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

China plans first space docking for 2011 (AFP) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 02:28 AM PST AFP - China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday.

Wen warns economic crisis spreading in China (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2009 11:11 PM PST AP - Premier Wen Jiabao warned that the impact of the global financial crisis was still spreading in China and the country faces the long and arduous task of combating its effects.

China toughens laws on corruption, insurance: reports (AFP) Posted: 28 Feb 2009 10:13 PM PST AFP - China has tightened laws to hand out stiffer punishments to government officials and their families convicted of bribe-taking and nepotism, state media reported Sunday.

Economic, social fears to dominate China parliament (AFP) Posted: 28 Feb 2009 08:09 PM PST AFP - China's parliament opens this week with the plotline of the annual Communist Party political show centred squarely on the government's plans to rescue the country from economic gloom.

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