
Elisabeth C.H./ internet slow posted a photo: My husband has brought clothing from Shanghai to our sweet granddaughter Layla. I hope it fits, Layla's birthday this Sunday ...:))
BEIJING (AP) — China’s deteriorating human rights record is a growing concern for the United States, even as overall ties between the countries become more entwined, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said Wednesday. With China drawing criticism from candidates in the U.S. presidential election and Beijing changing Communist Party leaders next year, Locke said the...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (UPI) — China will not interfere in Taiwan’s 2012 elections, a spokesman for the Communist-run mainland said Wednesday. Yang Yi of the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office made the remark at a press briefing on cross-Strait negotiations, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Yi said the negotiations have noting to...
Computerworld - China can use its power of government control to bring major changes quickly, and it is moving to expand parallel programming training to help its supercomputing efforts — and possibly its outsourcing industry, too. The Chinese Ministry of Education said Tuesday that it will offer Nvidia’s Cuda (Compute Unified Device Architecture) at...
BEIJING — China said Wednesday it is increasing security around South Korea’s embassy in Beijing after a window was broken there amid tensions over allegations in South Korea that a Chinese fisherman fatally stabbed a coast guard officer. South Korea’s news agency Yonhap cited an anonymous official as saying it was unclear if the broken...
Afterward, Ms. Lei, an insurance company worker, gushed about the Western-style play, which opened the inaugural Chengdu International Theater Festival in October. “I felt the things they were talking about could have been my own life, all our lives. It’s like it walked right into my heart,” Ms. Lei said of the play, which...
SHANGHAI (AP) — China has imposed duties on imports of some U.S.-made vehicles, claiming damage from foreign automakers due to dumping and subsidies in the latest round of trade friction between the two countries. The Commerce Ministry said Wednesday that the duties would be imposed for two years on imported cars and sport utility...
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — China announced plans to impose anti-dumping duties on some vehicles imported from the U.S. after failing to block a U.S. tariff on Chinese tires. Punitive duties will be as high as 12.9 percent for autos from General Motors Co. and 8.8 percent for Chrysler Group LLC, China’s commerce ministry said...