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• China to send scientists into space
BEIJING - China's military-backed space program will send scientists on future manned missions as its demand for technical expertise rises, state media reported Friday. Plans call for the program to begin setting up space laboratories after 2012, the ...
• Paulson urges China to keep currency reforms
WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, preparing for his final round of economic talks with China, said Tuesday that Beijing must keep letting its currency rise in value against the dollar to help ease trade tensions with the United States ...
• China tests gambling on horses, once a major vice
From a community effort to put out a fire to snow-covered vineyards, a look at some of the week’s most compelling images. BEIJING - Organized gambling on horse races has returned to mainland China for the first time since the ruling Communist Party ...
• China's Internet cafes switching to Chinese OS
BEIJING - Requirements that Internet cafes in a southern Chinese city install Chinese-developed operating systems are raising new concerns over cyber snooping by authorities, a U.S. government-funded radio station reported Wednesday. The new rules ...
• China pledges to fight AIDS discrimination
Nov. 25: Thousands of anti-government protesters sealed off Bangkok's new international airport Tuesday, leaving holiday travelers stranded and bewildered as scores of flights were canceled. NBC's Ian Williams reports. BEIJING - Chinese health ...