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Angry crowds across China ransacked Japanese businesses, smashed Japanese cars and pelted Tokyo's embassy in Beijing with eggs and plastic bottles in weekend protests over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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China said that Vice President Xi Jinping, the man expected to take over as the country's top leader in the next few weeks, will attend an international trade fair this week.
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Japan's prime minister deplored the escalating anti-Japan rallies in China and emphasized his commitment to continue to assert sovereignty over disputed islets, but he also signaled his desire to retain healthy economic ties with Beijing.
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To compete in the fast-growing market for smartphones, Taiwanese PC maker Acer is focusing on affordable models for first-time users in Asia's emerging markets.
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Google objected to Taiwanese PC maker Acer's development of a smartphone that is powered by a rival mobile operating system, the launch of which was delayed this week.
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Beijing Yanjing Brewery has dropped out of talks to buy the brewery operations of beer maker Kingway Brewery Holdings, giving previous bidders—including Anheuser-Busch InBev—a second shot.
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The former police chief of Chongqing city whose flight to a U.S. consulate triggered the scandal surrounding his former boss, Bo Xilai, will stand trial Tuesday on charges including defection, bribery and abuse of power.
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Tensions between Japan and China escalated as an unusually large group of Chinese patrol ships entered Japanese territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea, as Beijing tried to assert its sovereignty.
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The Federal Reserve's move to pump up growth in the U.S. will rouse howls of protest in China. In fact, the Fed is doing the job of Chinese policy makers for them.
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Apple's share of China's smartphone market is shrinking, but the iPhone 5—expected, unlike its predecessors, to be compatible with the country's biggest mobile network—could reverse that.
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Home Depot said it will close seven of its big-box home-improvement stores in China and take a $160 million after-tax charge in the third quarter as a result.
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Australia has a stake in ensuring tensions over territory in the South China Sea don't boil over, and will look to balance the rise of China without threatening the role of the U.S. in the region, foreign minister Bob Carr said.
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Anti-Japanese protests exploded across China on Saturday and Sunday as public anger escalated over Japan's announcement that it planned to purchase contested islands in the East China Sea. The protests turned violent in some cities, including in Beijing, where protesters battled security personnel in an effort to get into the Japanese embassy.
After the man tipped to be China's presumptive next leader went missing for two weeks, state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday broadcast footage of him examining science projects, looking at corn and gesturing robustly while appearing to give a short speech at China Agricultural University. Did he look healthy? See for yourself.
With anti-Japanese vitriol turning increasingly violent in China, recently retired Japanese porn star Sola Aoi produced a piece of social media diplomacy that quickly went viral.
The recent reappearance of one major political figure in China provides a clue that the upcoming 18th Communist Party Congress will be as much about how policy initiatives get handled as it will be about who gets named to the top spots in the scheduled leadership transition.
Like so many auto-parts makers and shippers, the charity organization United Way Worldwide is now following its customers to China. But the potential risk for the U.S.-based network as it teams up with government-run Chinese organizations - instead of lost profits - is reputational.
To save hours that would be spent navigating the maze of government websites, we present China Econtracker, an interactive tool for tracking the country's economic indicators.
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ChinaRealTime: Images from the weekend's violent anti-Japan protests in China: http://t.co/fVBFvJQa
ChinaRealTime: Images from this weekend's violent anti-Japan protests in China: http://t.co/fVBFvJQa
ChinaRealTime: Watch: China's Leader-in-Waiting, Xi Jinping, Walks Around and Looks at Things http://t.co/j9Yemucb
ChinaRealTime: A Japanese ex-porn star's call for Sino-Japanese peace has gone viral in China [SFW] http://t.co/gCswYMKm
ChinaRealTime: Watch: China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping, walks around and looks at things after going missing for two weeks http://t.co/rBddTpt9