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File - Chinese soldiers look at cars confiscated from a company owned by fugitive smuggling suspect Lai Changxing, including a bullet-proofed Mercedes Benz, at an anti-smuggling exhibition in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004.
(photo: AP / Greg Baker)
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
Denver Post
| BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. | The official Xinhua News Agency repo...
A man walks past screens inside the London Stock Exchange in the City of London, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. World stocks skidded lower Thursday, stung by the Federal Reserve's pessimistic assessment of the U.S. economy and the perceived ineffectiveness of measures to kickstart growth. Britain's FTSE 100 dropped 3.2 percent to 5,121.71 and Germany's DAX stumbled 3.4 percent to 5,249.80. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
(photo: AP / Matt Dunham)
World stocks fall after optimism fizzles on China
Newsday
| TOKYO - (AP) -- World stock markets fell Monday as optimism over a move by China's central bank to encourage lending were offset by lingering uncertainty about crisis-struck Greece. | European stocks plummeted in early trading. 's 100 fell 1.8 percent and Germny's DAX tumbled 2.2 percent. France's...
China second quarter GDP growth seen at 7.5 percent: government think-tank
Reuters
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual economic growth could slow to 7.5 percent in the second quarter, largely due to curbs on the property sector and headwinds from external demand, the State Information Center, a government think-tank, said in a rep...
China second quarter GDP growth seen at 7.5 percent: government think-tank
Chicago Tribune
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual economic growth could slow to 7.5 percent in the second quarter, largely due to curbs on the property sector and headwinds from external demand, the State Information Center, a government think-tank, said in a rep...
China second quarter GDP growth seen at 7.5 percent: government think-tank
Daily Press
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual economic growth could slow to 7.5 percent in the second quarter, largely due to curbs on the property sector and headwinds from external demand, the State Information Center, a government think-tank, said in a rep...
Ten Myths About Modern China
Forbes
| One of the 10 most popular myths on China is that its economic power has maxed out and it's all downhill from here. | ...
South China Headlines
FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012. and released by the U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, holds hands with U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, at a hospital in Beijing.
(photo: AP / U.S. Embassy Beijing Press Office, File)
China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US'
BBC News
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. | The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. | Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after esc...
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World stocks mixed amid bargain-hunting vs caution
Atlanta Journal
| BANGKOK — Asian stocks eked out gains Thursday as traders hunted for bargains after sharp selling in recent days, but markets in Europe fell amid intensifying fears of a messy exit by Greece from the euro common currency. More business news | Westmoreland cries foul at FDIC deals New Yorkers defrauded Atlantans Delta: Glitch caused fare woe...



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