Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Chavez: China may surpass US as No.1 trade partner (AP)
• Merck to build Asian R&D center in Beijing (AP)
• China probe finds Coke yogurt poisoning likely (Reuters)
• China braces as European crisis adds to strains (AP)
• Exclusive: Shell strikes shale gas in China (Reuters)
• China probe clears Coke yogurt drink batch of toxins (Reuters)

Chavez: China may surpass US as No.1 trade partner (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST AP - President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that China could surpass U.S. as Venezuela's No. 1 trade partner due to a strategic alliance between the two countries.

Merck to build Asian R&D center in Beijing (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 08:15 AM PST AP - Drugmaker Merck & Co. is setting up a new research and development headquarters for Asia in Beijing.

China probe finds Coke yogurt poisoning likely (Reuters) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:38 AM PST Reuters - Chinese police believe a child who died after drinking a Coca Cola-made yogurt drink was probably the victim of deliberate poisoning, official media said on Tuesday after a testing agency found no toxins in samples from the same batch of the drink.

China braces as European crisis adds to strains (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:19 AM PST AP - Europe's festering debt crisis is adding to strains on China just as the country is pricking its property bubble and facing a manufacturing downturn, limiting the ability of the world's No. 2 economy to prop up global growth.

Exclusive: Shell strikes shale gas in China (Reuters) Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:29 AM PST Reuters - Royal Dutch Shell Plc has found shale gas in China, a development that could cap imports in a market natural gas producers are hoping will drive demand.

China probe clears Coke yogurt drink batch of toxins (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:59 PM PST Reuters - A Chinese agency said it had not found toxic pesticides in samples from a production batch of Coca Cola-made yogurt drinks, an official news agency reported, narrowing suspicions the drink may have caused the death of a child who consumed yogurt from the same batch.

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