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International Herald Tribune - BEIJING : For the past decade, when Chinese leaders had a mission of national importance, they gave it to one woman. Wu Yi oversaw negotiations in the 1990s on China's entry to the World Trade Organization, winning a reputation as tough but ...

Boston Globe - Got Mongolian Milk? The NBA does. The largest milk seller in China represents one of six new NBA marketing partners signed since the start of last season. Why did that merit mention by commissioner David Stern during a recent press conference in ...

Boston Globe - BEIJING -- China has discussed tensions in Sudan and Myanmar with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. But a ministry statement did not release details of the Saturday night telephone call between Foreign Minister ...

Washington Post - BEIJING -- President Hu Jintao emerged politically stronger after the Communist Party announced a new leadership lineup Monday, giving him his second five-year term. But it also promoted two potential successors, a move that could spark a disruptive ...

CNBC - SHANGHAI (XFN-ASIA) - China B-shares closed lower led by large caps, with investors concerned about Wall Street's plunge on Friday, dealers said. Large property developers listed in Shenzhen, which led the gains in the previous session, were hit by ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Group of Seven's united campaign for faster yuan gains means China risks increasing tensions with major trading partners as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet ...

Washington Post - BEIJING, Oct. 22 -- Xi Jinping, the son of a Chinese guerrilla leader who rose through the ranks to become Communist Party chief in business-friendly Shanghai , was designated Monday as the most likely successor to President Hu Jintao as leader of ...

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Instead of presents, Mary Naden gives her teenaged children skateboard lessons or takes them on outings -- an effort, she says, to avoid buying goods made in China. "I like my cheap goods, too, but there's something that just ...

Boston Globe - BEIJING -- A fire at an illegal shoe factory in southeastern China killed 36 people and injured at least 20, authorities said Monday. The blaze broke out Sunday night in a workshop making shoe uppers, and was extinguished one hour later, the official ...

Forbes - BEIJING (Thomson Financial) - Thirty-four people were killed and 21 injured in a fire at an unlicensed shoe factory in southeast China, state media reported Monday. The fire at the workshop, located near Putian city in Fujian province, broke out at 9 ...