The China Guide Leads China Tourism Trends with its No Shopping Tours
Beijing, Nov 09, 2009 /PRNewswire-Asia via COMTEX/ ----Tourism in China is rooted strongly in the belief that travelers should be taken to tourist factory shops where they will drop lots of cash on overpriced goods. The "factory" is a small workshop showing how goods such as jade, silk or cloisonne are produced, followed by a warehouse-sized shop of expensive fixed price goods. The guide and tour company get a large commission on how much tourists spend. Travelers are looking for companies who...

JP Morgan sees overseas firms listing in China soon
* China Mobile , CNOOC seen as likely listing candidates * JP Morgan sees a handful of foreign listings within 12 mths * NASDAQ, NYSE Euronext express interest in listing (Adds comments from stock exchange official ) Beijing, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The first red-chip and foreigncompanies could list shares on the Shanghai stock exchange nextyear, Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at J.P. Morgan,said on Monday.

Communist Party official dies of excessive drinking in eastern China, the third case in a year
Beijing — A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such Alcohol Poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday. Shen Hao, secretary of the Communist Party of Xiaogang Village in eastern Anhui province, was found dead in bed last week after binge drinking while entertaining business associates during an official banquet, the China Daily newspaper...

China Executes 9 Over Uighur Riots
Nine people convicted of murder and Arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify the executed, but previous statements suggest that they are Uighurs. The riots in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, left 197 people dead as Uighurs clashed with Han Chinese. Uighur activists slammed the executions as token measures to appease the Han community’s desire for revenge, the BBC reports.

Obama to visit Asia as domestic issues smolder
By Patricia Zengerle Washington (Reuters) - Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States. The trip, which starts on Thursday, will take Obama to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore. But the critical leg will come in China, where Obama will have to navigate an increasingly complex relationship with the...

Obama to visit Asia as issues smoulder back home
By Patricia Zengerle Washington (Reuters) - Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States. The trip, which starts on Thursday, will take Obama to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore. But the critical leg will come in China, where Obama will have to navigate an increasingly complex relationship with the...

Obama to visit Asia as domestic issues smolder
Washington (Reuters) - Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States. The trip, which starts on Thursday, will take Obama to an Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore. But the critical leg will come in China, where Obama will have to navigate an increasingly complex relationship with the country that is the...

Endemol sells 'Best Years' to China
LONDON -- Global entertainment powerhouse Endemol has secured another commission in China -- its fourth in two years. “The Best Years of Our Lives,” which has aired in both Spain and Italy, will be broadcast in a prime slot on Shanghai Media Group’s Dragon TV. Show has been licensed in partnership with media rights agency IPCN and will be sponsored by U.S. auto giant Ford. Initial run will be for seven 60-minute shows. “The Best Years of Our Lives” sets two teams against one a

Obama warns of strains unless US, China balance growth
*To succeed, China, U.S. have to work together-Obama *He says he will raise currency issue with China *Obama will ask Beijing to do more to open markets *Also looking for progress on climate ahead of Copenhagen *Rejects criticism of stance on Human Rights in China Washington, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The United States sees China as a vital partner and competitor, but the two countries need to address economic imbalances or risk "enormous strains" on their relationship, President Barack Obama...

China plans to enter jumbo jet market
Beijing – Along with plans to put a man on The Moon and develop its own Aircraft carrier, China's sky-high ambition now includes building its own Made-in-China jumbo jet, to one day compete with Boeing and Airbus for a share of the lucrative commercial aviation marketplace. The project, still in the early development stages, calls for the first Chinese jumbo jet, dubbed the C919, to make its maiden flight in 2014, with the first commercial delivery two years after that. The jet is being...

Nine people executed for summer's ethnic riots in western China
Nine people have been executed for participating in violent ethnic riots in China’s mainly Muslim north west that left nearly 200 people dead. The nine are the first people to be put to death for their part in the July 5 riots, when members of the Uighur minority rampaged through the streets of the city of Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, hacking, stabbing and burning majority Han Chinese. Two days later, mobs of Han Chinese took to the streets in revenge. The verdicts against the nine were...

Eight Uighurs Executed in China
The executions were the first attributed to the Xinjiang violence. The events began on July 5th when Uighurs in the regional capital of Urumqi attacked Han people. Two days later, the Uighurs faced retaliatory attacks. The Han make up China's dominant ethnicity, while the Uighur minority is a Turkic Muslim ethnic group. The nine had been convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the unrest. The executions were reported by the official China News Service on Monday. The service did...

Nine executed over rioting in China
The nine were put to death recently after a final review of the verdicts by the Supreme People's Court as required by law, the news service said, but gave no specific date or other details. They had been convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the riots in the western city of Urumqi in China's worst ethnic violence in decades. Hundreds of people were rounded up in the wake of the riots, in which Uighurs attacked members of China's Han ethnic majority on July 5, only to face...

China executes 9
The state-run China News Service reported Monday that nine people have been executed in connection with ethnic riots last July that killed about 200 people in

China Executes 9 for Ethnic Riots
After months of alleged Uighur disappearances following July's ethnic riots in China's Xinjiang province, the People's Republic of China has executed nine of the 12 individuals sentenced to death for their roles in the riots. Uighurs, members of a Muslim ethnic minority within China's borders, faced a government crackdown after riots took the lives of an estimated 200 in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi last summer. Following the announcement of the nine executions, China's state-controlled press...

China Has Executed Nine Uighurs
By Mark Memmott Nine Uighurs have been executed by the Chinese government for taking part in ethnic violence that rocked the country's far west in July, Chinese state media reported today. According to the Associated Press, the state news service did not report when the executions were carried out or give any other details. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reported , the violence in Urumqi left hundreds dead over the summer. The unrest began when Uighurs (a mostly Muslim, Turkic minority) protested over...

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in Prison with no chance of Parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide. The cases being heard Monday involve two Florida convicts. Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman when he was 13. Terrance Graham was implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17. Graham, now 22, and Sullivan, now 33, are in Florida Prisons, which hold more...

Surf's up in China: PHOTO
Clutching her surfboard, Guo Shujuan strolls down a beach on southern China's Hainan Island and glides into waves that pound a shoreline littered with rubbish and broken bottles.

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in Prison with no chance of Parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide. The cases being heard Monday involve two Florida convicts. Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman when he was 13. Terrance Graham was implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17. Graham, now 22, and Sullivan, now 33, are in Florida Prisons, which hold...

High court to look at life in prison for juveniles
Washington -- The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in Prison with no chance of Parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide. The cases being heard Monday involve two Florida convicts. Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman when he was 13. Terrance Graham was implicated in armed robberies when he was 16 and 17. Graham, now 22, and Sullivan, now 33, are in Florida Prisons, which hold more...

U.S. Supreme Court to Look at Life Imprisonment for Non-Homicide Juvenile Offenders: PHOTO
The US Supreme Court on Monday will consider whether sentencing a juvenile to life in Prison without the possibility of Parole for a non-homicide violates the Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. In 2005, SCOTUS decided that it was unconstitutional to execute juveniles who had committed Murder. The Court will hear two cases from Florida, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida. Florida has locked away far more juveniles than any other state.  Terrance Graham was...

China, like U.S., tackles thorny health care reform
By Lucy Hornby HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Construction worker Li Fuxing had been in the wealthy Chinese city of Hangzhou for less than a month when a falling beam smashed his knee, landing him with Hospital bills equivalent to half a year's wages. In striped pyjamas and a cast, he is another test case in China's experiment in providing affordable Health Care to 1.4 billion people, an endeavour expected to cost $124 billion (74 billion pounds) over the three years to 2011. As debate rages in...

Asia drawn to a rising China's orbit looks to Obama's trip for signs of US staying power
Beijing — Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from the nation that has been America's rock in Asia for decades. Even more, Tokyo's new rhetoric underscored how China's rapid rise to power is challenging Washington's once-dominant sway in the region. This is the reality President Barack Obama confronts as he...

Asia drawn to a rising China's orbit looks to Obama's trip for signs of US staying power
Beijing — Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from the nation that has been America's rock in Asia for decades. Even more, Tokyo's new rhetoric underscored how China's rapid rise to power is challenging Washington's once-dominant sway in the region. This is the reality President Barack Obama confronts as he...

Asia drawn to a rising China's orbit looks to Obama's trip for signs of US staying power
Beijing — Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from the nation that has been America's rock in Asia for decades. Even more, Tokyo's new rhetoric underscored how China's rapid rise to power is challenging Washington's once-dominant sway in the region. This is the reality President Barack Obama confronts as he...