Rio Tinto China Bribery Scandal: Executives Plead ... - Huffingtonpost.com
Tao Wuping, the lawyer for Liu, said all four pleaded guilty. Calls to Hu's lawyer, Duan Qihua, were not answered. Australia's consul-general in Shanghai, Tom Connor, told reporters that Hu "made some admissions regarding these bribery matters ...
Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S. - New York Times
Wortzel , a military strategist and China specialist, told the House Foreign ... Wang said he and his professor had indeed published “Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid” in an international journal called Safety Science ...
I.M.F. Gives Debt Warning for the Wealthiest Nations - New York Times
In a speech at the China Development Forum in Beijing, the I.M.F. official, John P. Lipsky, who is the first deputy managing director, offered a grim prognosis for the world’s wealthiest countries, which are at a level of indebtedness not recorded ...
China issues pollution warning as Beijing skies turn orange - Digital Journal
You can enter up to 10 comma-separated email addresses. As residents woke up to an orange sky, Chinese officials have issued a level five pollution warning as a severe sandstorm is covering more than 300,000 miles. Beijing, China - A severe sandstorm in Beijing has prompted Chinese officials to
Orange sky as year's strongest sandstorm hits China - NECN
... Beijing's streets. The dust covered everything outside with a fine dust, and even found its way into buidings through tiny gaps. The sandstorm also hit the regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, and the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei ...
China's State-Run Media Chastise Google - CBS News
(AP) China's state-controlled media intensified criticism of Google on Monday, accusing the U.S. company of playing politics by threatening to shut down its China-based search engine. Chinese news reports say Google Inc. is on the verge of making ...
More foreign firms feel unwelcome in China - Yahoo Finance
and Chinese firms in China and globally. However, limiting market participants and reducing competition does not encourage innovation," AmCham China President Michael Barbalas said ... Beijing agreed when it joined the WTO in 2001 to treat foreign ...
Email service resumed in China's Xinjiang eight months after riot - Investors Business Daily
URUMQI, March 21 (Xinhua) - Email service was resumed and the restriction on the number of text messages one can send was lifted in northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on Saturday, about eight months after the July 5 riot in the regional capital Urumqi. A local resident named Xiao
China: U.S. has most to lose in ‘trade war’ - msnbc.com
BEIJING - China's commerce minister warned the United States on Sunday that if it launches a "trade war" against China by levying punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, the United States will suffer the most. Chen Deming also said the U.S. government's ...
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China: U.S. would lose ‘trade war’
 China's commerce minister warns White House that tariffs on Chinese imports would hurt Americans most.
IMF warns wealthiest nations about their debt
The IMF warned the world's wealthiest nations Sunday to watch their levels of government debt, saying it could drag down the growth needed to ensure continued economic recovery.
Hazardous sandstorms sweep across China
 Sandstorms whipping across China shrouded cities in an unhealthy cloud of sand and grit, with winds carrying the pollution outside the mainland as far as the island of Taiwan.
164 people face charges over massacres in Nigeria
A Nigerian police spokesman says 164 people will be charged with a variety of offenses, including terrorism, for their suspected roles in the slaughter of more than 200 people in central Nigeria this month.
Karzai meets with al-Qaida-linked group
 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met a senior delegation for peace talks with one of the main insurgent groups fighting against his government and foreign troops.
Iran detains grandson of powerful cleric
Iranian authorities detained the grandson of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the most powerful opposition supporter inside the country's clerical leadership, a news agency reported Monday.
Iraqis go for a little nip, tuck
 Even in the worst spasms of violence that followed the U.S.-led invasion, cosmetic surgery didn't go out of style in Iraq. Now, as the country quiets down, plastic surgery is all the rage.
Leftists crush Sarkozy’s party at ballot box
 French President Nicolas Sarkozy plots strategy with his prime minister after their conservative party's crushing defeat in regional elections.
Official: Bystanders killed in Mexico clash
Two men killed in a shootout between soldiers and gunmen near a prestigious university in this northern Mexican city were graduate students, not suspected drug traffickers, officials said.
Clinton calls for harsh Iran sanctions
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is vowing that the Obama is working on sanctions on Iran "that will bite" to press Tehran to come clean about its suspect atomic program.
A China without Google? Chinese say: So what?
With speculation swirling that Google will soon announce the closure of its China-based Internet portal, the reaction from some Chinese has been hurry up and leave.
Pakistan seeks to probe nuclear secrets scientist
Pakistan wants to investigate a disgraced scientist on charges of transferring nuclear secrets to Iraq and Iran, a government lawyer said Monday, just before important nuclear talks begin with Washington.
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