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China tightening trade with North Korea
TUMEN, China — In a concrete building on the northern edge of this city across the border from North Korea, young pony-tailed women wearing hoodies sew sportswear. The building has no flashy logo or company name on the outside, only a blue-and-red...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Pyongyang (North Korea), Career and Workplace, China, Barack Obama
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Snowden alleges U.S. hacking against China, Hong Kong
BEIJING -- Edward Snowden told Hong Kong media that the United States is involved in extensive hacking operations directed against China and Hong Kong. In an interview with the South China Morning Post published on the newspaper’s website early...
Tags: Computer Crime, Newspaper and Magazine, China, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Xi Jinping
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China, in dramatic shift, signals interest in U.S.-led trade talks
WASHINGTON -- Since the U.S. and other nations began talks on an Asia-Pacific free-trade pact, Chinese officials had pretty much looked at the deal with suspicion, as another attempt to contain China's rise in the world. Now, however, Beijing is...Tags: China, Trade Policy, Japan
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Defense chief Chuck Hagel seeks to reassure Asia allies
SINGAPORE — Chuck Hagel emerged from combat in the Vietnam War with two Purple Hearts and "a sense of how important it would be for America to engage wisely in Asia," as he put it to top defense officials gathered here. Now, more than a year after...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, Singapore, Budgets and Budgeting, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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For Villaraigosa, no lame-duck treatment in Beijing
BEIJING -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa might be leaving office at the end of next month, but he nonetheless got a personal audience Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The meeting came in advance of Xi’s scheduled trip to...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, China
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New leadership looking to revamp China's economic growth model
BEIJING — For years China has fueled its booming growth with investments aggressively pushed by local officials, who have used their power to secure land and take other measures to boost government coffers and economic output. But much of the...
Tags: Property, Productivity, China, Heritage Foundation, Government
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Desmond Tutu's plea: Stand up for Liu Xiaobo
By all reports, when President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in California this week for their first summit, their most important task will be to establish a strong rapport so they can manage the increasingly critical and complex U.S.-...
Tags: Iran, Nobel Prize Awards, China, Liu Xiaobo, Xi Jinping
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China poultry plant fire kills 119
BEIJING -- A fire ignited by an explosion quickly engulfed a poultry plant in northeastern China on Monday, killing at least 119 workers who were trapped inside behind locked doors. The fire, perhaps the deadliest ever in China’s poultry industry,...
Tags: Bird Flu, Livestock Farming, China, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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The Week Ahead: Syria festers, Cuba connects, China's Xi tours
No escaping the conundrum of Syria's war Monday-Tuesday, June 3-4 – Russian and European leaders face an agenda packed with economic and political issues at their two-day summit in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. But as with most...
Tags: Arab Spring, Taliban, Cuba, Mexico, Government
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Obama to press China's Xi to stop cyber attacks
WASHINGTON — In January 2010, when Google accused Chinese hackers of infiltrating its network to track emails of human rights activists, the Obama administration didn't disclose what U.S. diplomats in Beijing believed: China's Politburo had directed...
Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Adobe Systems Inc., Government, Human Rights, National Government
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Bringing art to the middle class in China
BEIJING — As the world's top collectors, gallerists and dealers converged in Hong Kong a week ago for Art Basel, the city's inaugural edition of one of the world's premier art shows, a very different kind of art venture was launching in the...
Tags: Luxury Vehicles, Fine Artists, Art Basel, Hong Kong, Ai Weiwei
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In China, kindergarten rivalry takes deadly turn
LIANGHE, China — When kindergarten was dismissed on that April afternoon, 6-year-old Ren Xinyi and her younger cousin hurried home. They were eager to check out a plastic bag they had spotted on the way to school that morning with their grandmother,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, China, Physical Conditions, Teachers
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