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Google Searches Blocked On Mainland China – NPR News
Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine was abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising more questions about the Internet company's ability to operate in the country while trying to work around the government's online censorship policies. It... »
Google: Search engine blocked in mainland China – AP – msnbc.com
Google says people in mainland China are being blocked from using its Internet search engine. The company posted a Thursday notice about the new barrier without any other details. A Google representative didn't immediately return a phone message. China... »
WTO backs China in US poultry case: Chinese media – YAHOO!
BEIJING (AFP) – The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled in China's favour in a dispute with the United States over imports of Chinese chicken, state media reported Thursday. China's commerce ministry has received the final ruling from the WTO, w... »
Report: Explosion at China factory injures 100 – Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) -- State media says an explosion at a factory in eastern China has injured about 100 people. The official Xinhua News Agency says the Wednesday morning blast occurred at a plastics factory in downtown Nanjing city in eastern Jiangsu provin... »
Huge blast at China factory kills 5, scores hurt – Boston Herald
B EIJING — A powerful blast caused by a suspected gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least five people and seriously injuring 28. The explosion happened about 10 a.m. in downtown Nanjing, the capital of’ Ji... »
Report: Explosion at China factory injures 100 – Fresno Bee
Fire in metal yard sends smoke over downtown LA Los Angeles firefighters have knocked down a blaze in a metal recycling yard next to a mattress factory that shot a large plume of smoke over downtown. City fire spokesman Cecil Manresa (man-RAY'-zuh) say... »
Report: Explosion at China factory injures 100 – Star-Banner
BEIJING - State media says an explosion at a factory in eastern China has injured about 100 people. The official Xinhua News Agency says the Wednesday morning blast occurred at a plastics factory in downtown Nanjing city in eastern Jiangsu province. Ne... »
Report: China tells finance agencies to limit risk – Jefferson City News Tribune Online
BEIJING (AP) -- The investment arms of Chinese local governments are being told to report how they will limit financial risks as a cleanup of the system begins, a state newspaper said Monday, amid concern banks might be hurt if they cannot repay multib... »
Rights group accuses China of abuses in Tibet – YAHOO!
BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese security forces brutally beat and even shot dead some protesters during unrest in Tibet in 2008, and tortured many in the subsequent crackdown, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday. The New York-based organisation said... »
ANALYSIS: Help from a reluctant China crucial to US efforts to pressure North Korea over nukes – Washington Examiner
WASHINGTON — New U.S. sanctions may make life uncomfortable for North Korea's elite, but the North will not feel real pain unless the United States gets help from a reluctant China, Pyongyang's main economic and diplomatic lifeline. The sanctions ann... »