Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Charles River Labs to buy China medical company (AP)
• Multi-nationals go for 'guanxi' at China's Expo (AFP)
• Murphy gets better of Ding as Rocket sinks Williams in snooker (AFP)
• Tibetan writer detained after quake critique (AP)
• Sparkle returns to Shanghai's elite nightlife (AFP)
• As they fold, Indonesia garment makers blame China (AP)
• China seen staking "middle" role at nuclear talks (Reuters)
• China quake leaves 8,000 monks homeless: state media (AFP)

Charles River Labs to buy China medical company (AP) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:05 PM PDT AP - Medical research equipment and services company Charles River Laboratories International Inc. plans to buy WuXi PharmaTech, a Chinese pharmaceutical outsourcing company, for $1.6 billion.

Multi-nationals go for 'guanxi' at China's Expo (AFP) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:24 AM PDT AFP - Coca-Cola is flying in hip-hop stars, Barclays is bringing English football's Premier League trophy and General Motors will offer a glimpse of the future as foreign firms woo China's massive market at the Shanghai Expo.

Murphy gets better of Ding as Rocket sinks Williams in snooker (AFP) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT AFP - China's number one Ding Junhui crashed out of the snooker World Championship on Monday as 2005 champion Shaun Murphy moved into the quarters with a 13-10 victory.

Tibetan writer detained after quake critique (AP) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:35 AM PDT AP - A Tibetan writer who had signed an open letter critical of the Chinese government's quake relief efforts in western Qinghai province has been detained by police, according to a family friend.

Sparkle returns to Shanghai's elite nightlife (AFP) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:05 AM PDT AFP - With its gilded youth and glitzy bars, Shanghai, host city of this year's World Expo, is rapidly reviving the thing for which it was once truly famous: nightlife.

As they fold, Indonesia garment makers blame China (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:36 PM PDT AP - Mufardi Rusli's neighbors hunch over tables covered in brightly colored fabric, the whirring of their sewing machines echoing across his Jakarta neighborhood. For Rusli, the sound is a bitter reminder of the $2 line of jackets that bankrupted him, costing him a garment business it took 15 years to build.

China seen staking "middle" role at nuclear talks (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:48 PM PDT Reuters - China is likely to stake out a position between the big nuclear weapons states and the non-nuclear-armed countries at an international conference next month, a prominent Swedish think tank said on Monday.

China quake leaves 8,000 monks homeless: state media (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:50 PM PDT AFP - The quake in China's remote northwest has left more than 8,000 monks homeless after damaging nearly 90 monasteries, state media said Monday, as the focus of relief work moved onto resettling survivors.

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