The UK drinks group says it is confident that a bid to take control of Shui Jing Fang, a Chinese brand of premium white spirit, would not be blocked by Beijing
Reuters - China could be about to allow its currency to strengthen by as much as 5 percent to slow down the country's fast-growing economy, Goldman Sachs' chief economist was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Chinese authorities have broken a hacking-tool dissemination ring, according to state media. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK
AP - China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
AFP - Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.
China moved swiftly to suspend military exchanges with the U.S. after Washington's announcement of arms sales to Taiwan, widening rifts in their far-reaching relationship.
AP - Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
The Christian Science Monitor - The rift between the corporate giant Google and the giant country China, with 338 million people online, has revealed a disturbing fact.
AP - Even if its stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, Google Inc. still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world's most populous Internet market.
Reuters - The Great Wall never looked so tasty: a team of Chinese confectioners have built a 10 meter (33 ft) long replica of the structure entirely out of chocolate in a bid to entice Chinese to eat more of the sweet stuff.
