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Forms GSMA partnership to drive development of embedded mobile connectivity
[2008 GSMA Mobile Asia Congress, Macau – 19 November 2008] Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. (”Huawei”), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions worldwide, has announced that to date it has shipped over 20 million mobile broadband units to over 115 countries covering Europe, Asia [...]

China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, two of the country’s three largest state-run carriers, have applied for emergency government subsidies to keep them airborne in the face of rising costs and falling passenger demand.
The airlines told the Financial Times that they had applied to the government for the subsidies after industry-wide losses in the [...]

There was no indication that Jing Hua Wu posed any danger when he walked into the offices of his Santa Clara employer Friday, a few hours after he’d been fired. So there was no reason for three top company officials to refuse his request for a meeting.
But some time after Wu and the three executives [...]

LONDON: China has “done everything it could” to talk to the Dalai Lama, a senior Chinese official said, insisting that Beijing was still open for
further meetings.
“China has done everything it can to talk to the Dalai Lama. The door is still open,” Zhu Weiqun, a vice minister of the United Front Work Department, said in [...]

BEIJING: China faces a new problem with the tainted milk that has sickened babies and battered public confidence: How to get rid of the toxic
stuff.
It has been burned, buried and mixed into coal. One trash-hauling company dumped a load into a river, turning the waters a frothy white and raising fears about the safety of [...]

BEIJING: Eleven people were killed and 39 injured when a speeding bus overturned on an expressway in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province,
state media reported.
Officials said the bus, carrying 50 passengers, was travelling at 130 kilometres (81 miles) per hour when it crashed on Saturday afternoon, according to Xinhua news agency.
“Patrolling traffic police and highway administration staff [...]

BEIJING: China has sent an Olympic ticket tout to jail for 2-½ years, and fined him 450,000 yuan ($65,950) for illegally selling on over 500
passes to the Summer Games, in the biggest such case to come to court in Beijing.
The 41-year-old had agreed to arranged tickets for two companies at prices 50% to 60% [...]

BEIJING: Taxi drivers in a small tourist town in south China have forced Communist authorities to actually reward strikers. In a rare
development, the government has decided to suspend three senior officials and accept the demand of striking taxi drivers.
The twin decisions to accept the demand of strikers and punish officials came after the police had [...]

Pressure mounts on Beijing, with its huge foreign exchange reserves, to do more to help alleviate the financial crisis.
Reporting from Shanghai — As global leaders gather today for an economic summit in Washington, no one may feel the spotlight’s glare as much as Chinese President Hu Jintao.
In the weeks leading up to this meeting of [...]

Precautionary move to test dairy products for melamine contamination
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials on Thursday ordered dozens of imported foods from China held at the border as possible health risks. Most are ethnic treats, including snacks, drinks and chocolates.
The Food and Drug Administration has had an import alert in place since Oct. 10 for specific [...]

CHANG’AN, China — Wang Denggui, father of three, arrived more than a year ago in the palm-lined streets of this southern town with a single goal: toil in a factory to save for his children’s school tuition.
But the plans of Mr. Wang and thousands of co-workers unraveled at noon on Nov. 1, when the Taiwanese [...]

At least 5 children who died of kidney problems drank suspect formula
LITI VILLAGE, China - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.
Her grandmother wrapped the 9-month-old in a wool blanket. Her father handed the body to village men for [...]