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In her first public speaking engagement outside North America, Sarah Palin blamed the financial crisis on government excesses and said China "makes people nervous."

At the U.N.'s highest-level conference yet on climate change, China on Tuesday pledged ambitious plans to plant enough forest to cover an area the size of Norway and use 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources within a decade.

When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing.

The Dalai Lama -- on a visit to Taiwan that includes prayers for recent typhoon victims -- has refuted China's claims that he is there for political reasons.

The lead pollution from an unlicensed manganese smelter is the second incident of mass lead poisoning in the past month.

Stocks slipped, hobbled again by concerns about the ability of China's economy to act as a catalyst for global recovery.

A 50 billion Australian dollar ($41 billion) deal for China to buy Australian natural gas shows current diplomatic tensions between the two countries will not trump their commercial interests, officials said Wednesday.

Villagers in northern China clashed with police outside a lead smelter blamed in the poisoning of more than 600 children, reports said Monday.

Investors on Friday firmly endorsed an Australian dollars 3.5 billion plan for Yanzhou Coal to buy Felix Resources Ltd. in what would be China's biggest investment yet in the Australian minerals sector.

China says the case will help bolster foreign investment, others fear a chilling effect. Rio Tinto’s bribery drama reached a new climax when China formally -- and finally -- arrested four employees of the Australian mining giant on Wednesday. But there are signs that China is beginning to play down the matter by charging the four with less serious crimes than expected, perhaps over fears that China's sovereign fund, along with thousands of state-owned companies, might otherwise be unwelcome in overseas markets in the future.