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Coke might abandon China juice company takeover: report (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 06:46 PM PDT Reuters - The Coca Cola Company might abandon its proposed $2.4 billion takeover of China's leading juice company after Chinese antitrust regulators indicated it would have to relinquish the brand, the Financial Times reported, quoting people familiar with the matter.

Bomb lobbed at police station in China's west (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 07:04 AM PDT AP - A bomb blast in an unoccupied police station in a Tibetan area in western China has added to tensions during a sensitive month marking the anniversaries of violent anti-government uprisings and the Dalai Lama's exile to India.

Rio names new chairman as Chinalco row escalates (Reuters) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 06:13 AM PDT Reuters - Rio Tinto named a new chairman to help get a planned $19.5 billion tie-up with China's Chinalco approved, as Australian politicians opposed to the deal raised their level of protest on Tuesday.

Exxon Mobil to build tech center in Shanghai (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 04:14 AM PDT AP - Exxon Mobil Chemical Co., one of the world's biggest petrochemical companies, said Tuesday it plans to build a technology center in Shanghai to support its business in the region.

China voices concern as tensions flare in Koreas (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 03:48 AM PDT AP - China expressed concern Tuesday over tensions on the Korean peninsula, as North Korea's premier arrived in Beijing ahead of his country's plans to launch a rocket next month.

China's milk victims complain of intimidation (AP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 02:42 AM PDT AP - Local authorities have been pressuring at least a half-dozen families of victims in China's tainted milk scandal into dropping lawsuits demanding compensation from the dairies, victims' advocates said Tuesday.

China concerned over situation on Korean peninsula (AFP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:51 AM PDT AFP - China voiced concern on Tuesday over growing uncertainties on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea is pushing ahead with preparations for what the United States says will be a missile test.

Bomb blast in Tibetan area: police (AFP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:28 AM PDT AFP - Police in a Tibetan-dominated region of southwest China confirmed Tuesday a government office was rocked by a bomb explosion, but said the incident was not serious.

China to boost Africa investment fund: FT (AFP) Posted: 17 Mar 2009 12:25 AM PDT AFP - China will boost its state-run Africa investment fund by two billion dollars, so as to snap up opportunities left by Western investors leaving the continent, the Financial Times said Tuesday.

China labour leader freed after 7 years in jail (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 11:45 PM PDT AFP - A prominent Chinese labour leader has been freed after serving a seven-year prison term for subversion, where he endured beatings and persecution, his daughter and a rights group said Tuesday.

China jails 2 ethnic minorities for protests (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 10:25 PM PDT AP - Authorities in China's far west Muslim minority region have sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for organizing nonviolent rallies and another to eight years imprisonment for raising a separatist flag, an overseas advocacy group said Tuesday.

China labor activist free after 7 years jail (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 08:56 PM PDT AP - A labor leader who led some of the largest protests in communist Chinese history and was released from jail this week after serving a seven-year sentence said Tuesday he has no regrets about the activism that led to his arrest.

Modernization poses new challenges for Tibetans (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:23 PM PDT Reuters - Steeped in centuries-old, devoutly Buddhist traditions, Tibetans today face harsh choices as they fight to hold on to their unique identity without getting left behind in China's headlong rush toward modernity.

Amusing, mystifying labels in China (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:22 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - I’m in the city of Manzhouli along China’s far northern border with Russia. It’s snowing like crazy outside and I’ve just woken up in my bone-dry hotel room with a terrible thirst.

China: Importers need to share blame for emissions (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 02:31 PM PDT AP - Countries buying Chinese goods should be held responsible for the heat-trapping gases released during manufacturing in China, one of its top officials said Monday.

Bomb thrown at China government office: report (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 07:58 AM PDT Reuters - A government office in an ethnic Tibetan part of China's southwestern province of Sichuan was hit by a bomb early on Monday but no casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news agency said.

China's last eunuch spills sex secrets (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:02 AM PDT Reuters - Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.

China's Gobi desert source of rare dinosaur find (AP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 04:19 AM PDT AP - Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert.

China's CITIC Securities teams with US brokerage (AFP) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 03:33 AM PDT AFP - A subsidiary of China's largest listed brokerage, CITIC Securities, said Monday it had set up a finance joint venture with US investment banking firm Evercore Partners Inc.

Australia extends Chinalco-Rio deal probe (Reuters) Posted: 16 Mar 2009 03:04 AM PDT Reuters - Australia extended its review of Chinese aluminum maker Chinalco's $19.5 billion investment in global miner Rio Tinto on Monday as major Rio shareholders voiced growing concern over the deal.

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