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China Obama Girl

AP News 10 hours ago

File - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Wang Zifei, is seen at lower center, while listening to President Barack Obama answer questions during his town hall meeting at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China. Wang has become China's ...

China Economy

AP News 11 hours ago

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2009 file photo, a worker labors at a steel mill in a village of Jiangyin city, Jiangsu Province, China. China's stimulus has fueled massive overexpansion in industrial capacity taht could drive a surge in low-priced exports ...

China says Premier Wen to attend climate summit

AFP Global Edition 11 hours ago

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month to demonstrate his nation's willingness to work with the global community, the government said Thursday. "Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the 15th conference of signatories to the United ...

China Christians jailed in church row: lawyer

AFP Asian Edition 11 hours ago

A court in northern China sentenced five church leaders to up to seven years in prison after they tried to stop their place of worship being torn down, their lawyer said Thursday. The five were sentenced by a court in Linfen city, ...

Obama to head to Copenhagen with climate pledge

AFP Global Edition 12 hours ago

President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit to offer the first US plan to cut carbon emissions, officials said, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed. The Obama administration offered to curb US emissions by 17 percent ...

China's Wen to go to Copenhagen climate talks

Reuters Environmental Online Report 12 hours ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend global talks in Copenhagen that aim to forge the basis of a new climate change treaty, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, calling the trip a show of cooperativeness. Foreign Ministry spokesman ...

OBAMA IN CHINA

BusinessWeek 13 hours ago

OBAMA IN CHINA Long on theater, short on specifics. Thus go most visits of U.S. Presidents to China, and Barack Obama's first trip proved no exception. Even as Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Nov. 17 offered a lengthy Joint Statement ...

State-run magazine reports on black jails in China

AP News 17 hours ago

State magazine reports on black jails, raising hopes of government acknowledgment of problem It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them ...

Obama to plead US case at global warming summit

AP Features 21 hours ago

Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress ...

India's PM Singh says assured by U.S. on Pakistan

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 23 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was assured that U.S. influence on Pakistan would help prod Islamabad to crack down on militants who target India. Singh said his talks with President Barack Obama on Tuesday produced ...

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