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Hawaii and China may reach an agreement by the end of the year to open a new retail warehouse showcasing island products.
General Electric's aviation unit is teaming with Aviation Industry Corp. of China to develop and market electronic systems for commercial aircraft customers, including the C919 narrow-body aircraft that China hopes will compete with jets made by industry giants Boeing and Airbus.
Chemical maker Celanese Corp. said Monday it is expanding one of its manufacturing facilities in China.
Several groups of illegal immigrants from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days, part of an increasing trend that U.S. Border Patrol agents said Monday was being fed by smugglers recruiting tourists to Central and South America.
A new language class is providing an opportunity for Liberians to learn Mandarin as China expands its economic presence in the West African country.
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have filed charges against three Chinese citizens and two corporations for conspiring to illegally export military products.
Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market.
In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
The lawyer for China's most-wanted man says his admission of guilt to smuggling won't end his decade-long bid to stay in Canada.
The California Legislature didn't let a weeks-long budget debate prevent it from unanimously apologizing for the state's past persecution of the Chinese immigrants who built the state's railroads, gold mines and agriculture industry.
Long-simmering economic tensions between the U.S. and China boiled over Tuesday as the Obama administration filed its first unfair-trade case against Beijing, accusing it of restricting exports of materials needed to produce steel, aluminum and other products.
A New Zealander was found guilty Saturday of his wife's murder in a case that sparked an international manhunt after he abandoned his toddler at a train station and fled to the United States.
California's Chinese immigrants helped build ships, levees, irrigation systems and the transcontinental railroad. They worked in farm fields and mines and helped develop the abalone and shrimp industries.
Three Mississippi companies are accused in a federal lawsuit of illegally importing and selling more than 78,000 small engines made in China.
The Environmental Protection Agency has found sulfur and other materials in a small sampling of Chinese-made drywall, which some officials and residents blame for sickening fumes and corroding metal in homes in several states.
Officials in Florida will soon begin air quality tests in homes to determine whether fumes emitted from Chinese-made drywall can make people sick, the state Health Department said Friday.
Ferrari's team principal says there is cause for gloom but no reason to panic after its worst start to a Formula One season in 28 years.
Sebastian Vettel gave Red Bull its first Formula One victory on Sunday, leading throughout a soggy Chinese Grand Prix to end the team's drought in its fifth season and 74th race.
An official says a Chinese engineer held captive by militants for six months in Pakistan has been set free and is safe.
China's president toured the site of a new, Chinese-financed national theater in Senegal on Saturday, a day after signing a bilateral agreement promising the West African nation over $90 million in gifts and loans.
BEIJING – The number eight is considered so auspicious here that the Chinese leadership decided to launch the Summer Olympic Games at 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of the year.
For American parents, bargain prices for toys this holiday season qualify as good news: A Barbie fan who rose before dawn for Wal-Mart’s Black Friday sale could secure the coquettish “Barbie Diamond Castle Princess Liana Doll” for $5 — royally marked down from its regular retail price. At Target, a 10-pack of die-cast Hot Wheels cars also went for just $5, while a radio-controlled helicopter cost a mere $15. The price wars were enough to draw consumers out of their bunkers for their first shopping spree in months.
A German academic journal has apologized for printing sexually suggestive text on the cover of its current issue about China.
Two Chinese survey ships intruded on Japanese waters surrounding disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday but retreated several hours after Tokyo protested to Beijing, Japanese officials said.
A federal appeals court expressed skepticism Monday about a judge's order releasing 17 Turkic Muslims from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Speaking fireA blogger makes a valid point in a recent blog on dawn.com.
Glenn Beck 11/21/09 - "We need to start thinking like the Chinese" [VIDEO]Didn't he just criticize Anita Dunn for thinking like the Chinese?
BBC News - Newsnight - Defector tells of life in North Korean armyNewsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of whom says that he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army before fleeing.
VOA News - Obama Meets with Chinese Premier Before Departing ChinaU.S. President Barack Obama is meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday for a final discussion before leaving China for South Korea
China's rising nationalism troubles WestWhile US President Barack Obama has been sitting down with China's leaders seeking ever closer co-operation, some observers are concerned as to how China will behave as it gets stronger.
The New Face Of Immigration (illegal alien Chinese)China is half way around the world, but the distance isn't stopping Chinese people from paying top dollar to enter the U.S. Illegally. In fact, the number of Chinese immigrants caught in the Arizona desert is up nearly 10 fold in the last year.
US Urges North Korea Not to Escalate Tensions in Yellow SeaWashington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles
Korean Navies Trade Fire in First Incident in Seven YearsNorth and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory"The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa." ...but a number of scholars are not yet convinced.
Millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sexThe first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said.
Chinese crime 'Godmother' jailedA woman described as the "Godmother" of the criminal underworld in the Chinese city of Chongqing has been sentenced to 18 years in jail and a large fine.
Guantanamo Uighurs sent to PalauSix Chinese Uighur prisoners from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau, officials say. Lawyers for three of them said they had "arrived to freedom" early on Sunday.
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China Drywall Emits Gas; No Tie to Illness, U.S. Says (Update 3) U.S. investigators found elevated sulfur emissions from Chinese drywall, though they stopped short of linking the building material to ailments cited by many of the 1,900 homeowners who filed complaints.
The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog has been demanding a settlement from Wells Fargo bank for its involvement in auction rate sales to completely innocent consumers, since July. Auction rate securities were sold as just like cash, completely safe, with no risk.
Toxic Chinese Drywall Creates A Housing DisasterAlong the Gulf Coast and across the country, it's being called a "silent hurricane." Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported from China.
The Roving Runner: One Actress, Many Characters - Well Blog - NYTimes.comIt can be difficult to keep a straight face, or even stay upright, when you are running next to Sarah Jones and she suddenly becomes Chinese or Dominican or Kenyan. Or a Jewish grandmother.
Net set for 'language shake-up'The internet is on the cusp of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal - initially approved in 2 …
Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese LabNow Qiang and Tie have created a metamaterial that distorts space so severely that light entering it (in this case microwaves) cannot escape.
Insurers Dropping Chinese Drywall Policies Thousands of homeowners nationwide who bought new houses constructed from the defective building materials are finding their hopes dashed, their lives in limbo.
Waco Siege "Enforcer" To Rule Over Global UN and Interpol Police Force coming to USFor a taste of what Americans who aren't so favorable to taking orders from foreigners on home soil can expect, consider the fact that the secretary general of Interpol, and one of the men at the forefront of setting up the global police force, is none other than Ronald K.
Chinese Language Class Starts in LiberiaA new language class is providing an opportunity for Liberians to learn Mandarin as China expands its economic presence in the West African country.
In Arizona desert, illegal immigration's mysterious spike (Chinese!?!)Authorities report an almost ten-fold spike in arrests of clandestine migrants from China in the southern Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line.
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