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BofA sells $7.3B stake in China Construction Bank (AP) Posted: 14 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT AP - Bank of America Corp. has sold part of its stake in China Construction Bank to Asian investors for about $7.3 billion as it looks to raise funds to meet government capital requirements.

US senators urge release of Chinese rights lawyer (AFP) Posted: 14 May 2009 03:41 PM PDT AFP - Four US senators on Thursday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free prominent human rights lawyer and rights advocate Gao Zhisheng on the eve of the 100th day since he was taken by security forces.

Obama says U.S. can't keep borrowing from China (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama raised the prospect on Thursday that China and other nations could stop buying U.S. debt and said the United States needed to tackle its deficit to avoid long-term economic damage.

Deposed Chinese leader's memoir out before June 4 (AP) Posted: 14 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT AP - It took hours of secret recordings and years of clandestine planning to get the material smuggled out and translated.

160 in China hospital over possible factory pollution: report (AFP) Posted: 14 May 2009 09:02 AM PDT AFP - More than 160 people have been hospitalised and hundreds of others have been sickened in northeastern China in a suspected case of pollution caused by a chemical plant, local media said Thursday.

Fallen Chinese leader reveals Tiananmen secrets (AFP) Posted: 14 May 2009 08:52 AM PDT AFP - The memoir of a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 pro-democracy protesters has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.

China says U.S. currency bill tempts protectionism (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2009 04:26 AM PDT Reuters - China rejected claims it has manipulated yuan exchange rate policies to tilt trade flows against the United States, saying on Thursday that proposed legislation before the U.S. Congress could stoke protectionism.

China's Zhao decries June 4 "tragedy" from the grave (Reuters) Posted: 14 May 2009 03:29 AM PDT Reuters - Two decades after his downfall and four years after his death, reformist Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang has broken the official silence on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, denouncing the killings of protesters as a "tragedy."

China denies spying claims made in US court case (AP) Posted: 14 May 2009 02:05 AM PDT AP - China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied spying accusations made in a court case against a U.S. Defense Department official, accusing Washington of clinging to a "Cold War mentality."

Chinese lawyers say they were beaten, detained (AP) Posted: 14 May 2009 12:14 AM PDT AP - A Chinese lawyer says he and a colleague were detained and beaten by police while visiting the family of a man who died under suspicious circumstances in a labor camp.

Chinese imports could bring GM political troubles (AP) Posted: 13 May 2009 08:59 PM PDT AP - As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.

Exiled Tiananmen-era dissident detained in China (AP) Posted: 13 May 2009 08:13 PM PDT AP - An exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has been secretly detained in south China for more than six months after trying to return to his homeland for the first time since 2002, his family said.

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