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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 ...

Forbes - BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China unveiled its new line-up for the Political Bureau of the ruling Communist Party, adding two new members with economic experience to the powerful 25-member body. The two, who are among a total of 10 new members, are Wang ...

Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party unveiled on Monday a new leadership line-up, including two men likely to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head Premier Wen Jiabao. Xi Jinping, who has been chief of Shanghai, and ...

MSN MoneyCentral - ... Holdings Company Limited CLWT today announced that its subsidiary, Yixing PACT Environmental Technology Company Ltd. ("PACT") has recently been awarded contracts worth about US$ 2.4 million by a USA Aluminum company based in Qinhuangdao, China ...

Reuters India - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has gone to great pains to show it's open and willing to have more debate at this week's key Congress, but when it comes to voting, almost everyone still votes "yes". At the closing ceremony on ...