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February 09, 2012
BEIJING, China - The celebrity top cop relieved of his duties in a major Chinese city met officials at a U.S. consulate amid unconfirmed reports of an asylum bid, but then left the building, the U.S. State Department said. His whereabouts were unclear Thursday.
Poll suggests Canada wants China's help on the economy
February 09, 2012
BEIJING, China - A new poll suggests Canadians want China's help driving the economy, but don't want them in the driver's seat.
Video: Mom in central China gives birth to 15 pound baby
February 08, 2012
BEIJING, China - A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949.
February 07, 2012
BEIJING, China - China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence.
Reports: China's environmental crises and costs rising
February 07, 2012
SHANGHAI - Environmental accidents are on the rise in China, mainly due to chemicals industry-related traffic and industrial mishaps, and the costs of such damage to the economy are rising.
Harper names goodwill ambassador to China
February 07, 2012
BEIJING, China - The prime minister put some star power behind his high-level trip to China.
China asked to raise human rights with Harper
February 06, 2012
Aboriginals from British Columbia have asked China's president to quiz Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's human rights record during his visit to the Asian country.
Harper heads to China to talk trade, energy
February 06, 2012
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to China today, and in addition to a political entourage, he's bringing along a who's-who of Canada's energy sector.
China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax
February 06, 2012
BEIJING, China - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.
Report says 3 set themselves on fire in China
February 05, 2012
BEIJING, China - Three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China's policies toward Tibetans in a politically sensitive area that already has seen ethnic violence this year, a media report and an activist group said.
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
February 04, 2012
The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down. The double-veto outraged the U.S. and European council members who feared it would embolden the Assad regime.
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
February 04, 2012
Russia and China have vetoed a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down.
China fires 7 officials after toxic cadmium spill
February 04, 2012
BEIJING, China - An environmental protection director and six other officials have been fired after a spill of toxic cadmium in a river in southern China threatened drinking water supplies for millions of people, news reports said Saturday.
Harper heads to China to talk trade
February 03, 2012
OTTAWA - The prime minister heads to China next week to talk trade and senior officials insist human rights will also be part of the discussion.
PM urged to press China on human rights
February 02, 2012
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's second trip China next week comes amid a renewed crackdown on dissent that highlights an issue his hosts would rather leave in the shadows: human rights.
China wants observer status at Arctic Council
February 02, 2012
MONTREAL - China may use the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to try convincing him that it deserves a more prominent role in the Arctic.
China announces $2.5B fund for small businesses
February 01, 2012
BEIJING, China - China announced more help Wednesday for its struggling private business sector, unveiling a $2.5 billion fund to finance new small businesses and promising tax breaks and more lending for entrepreneurs.
D'Alessandro to stay at Inter despite China offer
January 30, 2012
SAO PAULO - Brazilian club Internacional says it has reached a deal to keep Argentine playmaker Andres D'Alessandro despite a good offer for him to play in China.
China boosts police presence in restless Xinjiang
January 30, 2012
BEIJING, China - Thousands of additional police officers are being dispatched to combat religious extremism and other security concerns in China's volatile, heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported Monday.
Tory MP's affair was likely ‘sexpionage’
December 01, 2011
The Conservative government should have been more concerned when one of its MPs was exposed having a relationship with a reporter for China’s state news agency, says a defector from the country’s spy service.
Accidental millionaire arrested in Hong Kong
September 30, 2011
HONG KONG - A New Zealander who went on the run when a bank mistakenly gave him a multimillion-dollar line of credit in 2009 has been arrested in Hong Kong, police said Friday.
Video: Dog plays surrogate mom to white tiger cubs
September 15, 2011
Three white tiger cubs in China have found an unusual surrogate mother.
China in no hurry to enter North American auto market
March 16, 2011
Ever wonder why your jeans, computer, and hockey stick are made in China, but not your car?
Finding fresh and sweet cuisine in Shanghai
March 02, 2011
It’s a rare city that straddles the Old and New Worlds, developing and developed, but Shanghai is one of them.
Will China drag down global markets?
November 16, 2010
Last week was the worst performing week for the broader North American markets since the summer.
Hu in Canada: Will he be part of global economy's solution or remain the problem?
June 22, 2010
When Chinese president Hu Jintao arrives in Canada on Wednesday on a rare state visit in advance of the weekend's G20 summit, he will witness something he rarely if ever sees in his homeland - protesters.
Chinese dance pioneer honoured on the silver screen
May 13, 2010
Mao’s Last Dancer is the inspiring true story (and runner up for the Audience Choice Award at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival) about the first dancer from Mao’s Communist China permitted to study ballet in the U.S.
No yellow brick road needed for this 'Dwarf Empire'
April 14, 2010
The long and the short of it is simple — this is the world’s only Dwarf Empire and if you’re above 1.5 metres, you’re not coming in.
U.S. lawmakers step up attacks on China currency policies ahead of Nov. elections
March 15, 2010
China is once again the country the U.S. Congress loves to hate.
Documentary highlights 'sad reality' of China's migrant workers
February 23, 2010
The idea that cinema represents an escape from reality receives a necessary antidote in the form of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, an annual series dedicated to films with underlying themes of social justice.
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