China
Dalai Lama: China unrealistic on Tibet, talks futile
LONDON - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday resuming talks with China on his homeland's future was futile unless it adopted a "realistic" stance, adding it was useless trying to convince Beijing he was not seeking full independence.
Russia jails two men for giving China nuke secrets
MOSCOW - Russia has jailed two university professors for passing top secret information on Moscow's next generation nuclear missile system to China, sentencing each of them to at least 12 years in jail, local media reported on Wednesday.
Sinopec weighing bid for Chesapeake assets: FT
- China's Sinopec Corp is contemplating a multibillion dollar bid for Chesapeake Energy Corp assets, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
China says rare earth price gap based on quality, customs
BEIJING - China denied on Wednesday that it interferes with prices on the global rare earths market amid a trade dispute with other major economies, saying product quality variations account for the price gap between the metals it produces for export and domestic use.
Cambodia ponders fate of Frenchman in Bo Xilai case
PHNOM PENH - A French architect embroiled in China's biggest political scandal in two decades is in custody in Cambodia where authorities are deciding whether he should be extradited to China, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
Europe, China worries dampen Asia business sentiment in second quarter: survey
SINGAPORE/MUMBAI - Asia's top companies are less upbeat on their business outlook than in the first quarter, with mounting concern over the euro zone crisis and a slowdown in China's growth, according to the latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asia Business Sentiment Survey, published on Wednesday.
Obama says China, Russia "not signed on" for Assad's removal
LOS CABOS, Mexico - U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia and China have "not signed on" to any plan for the removal from power of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but that they recognize the dangers of an all-out civil war in the country.
Africans protest in China as man dies in police custody
BEIJING - More than 100 Africans protested on Tuesday outside a police station in China's southern Guangdong province after an African man died in police custody, state news agency Xinhua said, citing local authorities.
China may lean on RRR cuts in policy easing if slowdown persists
BEIJING - China's central bank could rely on cutting the amount of cash the banks must hold as reserves to bolster growth but reserve further interest rate cuts as the last-resort policy option, economists familiar with Beijing's policy-making process said.
China rounds off push for bigger IMF war chest
LOS CABOS, Mexico - China on Monday offered $43 billion to the IMF's crisis-fighting reserves, rounding off a global push to nearly double the Fund's war chest to $456 billion to help protect countries from fallout from the euro zone debt crisis.
Reuters Breakingviews
The China Files
Can China keep up the astonishing growth rate it has witnessed in the past three decades? And if not, what strain will this put on the country's political system? Reuters Breakingviews editor Hugo Dixon looks at China's future in this series. Commentary
Are African governments suppressing art?
The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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