China

Chinese President Hu Jintao has opened a Communist Party congress that begins a once-in-a-decade power transfer with a stark warning on corruption.
Addressing more than 2,000 delegates, Mr Hu said that a failure to tackle the issue “could prove fatal to the party”.
Although three decades of economic growth averaging 10 percent a year have lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty, name-brand Western toys remain out of reach for most families.
A group of giant panda cubs napping at a nursery in the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China’s Sichuan province. [SEE PHOTOS]
In a report, “The Other Side of Apple II,” a coalition of Chinese non-governmental environmental organizations detailed alleged pollution caused by Apple’s supply chains in China, among those companies handling iPhone and iPad parts.
A total of five self-branded ‘Apple stores’ were found to be operating without authorisation from Apple.
Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth’s temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record. The answer seems counterintuitive. It’s all that sulfur pollution in the air from China’s massive coal-burning, according to a new study.
SAN FRANCISCO — The photograph on the Home Depot Web site shows a line of smiling soldiers unloading a truck stacked with power tools and other company wares.
The company says this shows “federal dollars go farther at The Home Depot.” San Francisco Attorney Paul Scott says the photo also shows the company providing Chinese-made products in violation of the Buy American Act, and the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating.
Official media say three children have died from nitrite poisoning after drinking milk from two dairies in northwestern China. Thirty-five others, mostly children, were sickened and are being treated.
China, pushed again by Washington to bring North Korea to heel after last week’s artillery attack on the South, told Pyongyang their relationship had withstood international “tempests.”
Formally, at least, the U.S. and China have avoided fighting an all-out currency war. Beijing has attempted to appease anger in Washington over its undervalued yuan by allowing it to (very) slowly creep upward against the dollar.
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