ChinaChina congress: Hu Jintao opens party meeting on leadership change
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”.  China: Barbie’s reign may be short-livedAlthough 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. Sleeping Baby PandasA 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] Apple rejects China pollution allegationsIn 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. China shutdown’ of fake Apple storesA total of five self-branded ‘Apple stores’ were found to be operating without authorisation from Apple. New details about global warming: sulfur in China caused pausingScientists 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. Feds weigh suit against Home Depot for allegedly selling prohibited goods to U.S. governmentSAN 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. Nitrite, probably in milk, kills 3 Chinese childrenOfficial 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 says North Korea ties survived “tempests”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.” Why the U.S. Could Be Intensifying a Global Currency WarFormally, 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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