Late starters face uphill task in China
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As the widespread coverage of Yi Jianlian's NBA move reaffirmed China's love affair with basketball, a first-round pick from the 2004 NFL draft was in Beijing on Friday to promote "America's favorite sport".
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China's first plan for climate change will seek to fortify the country against damage from global warming but also against international pressure to cut greenhouse gas pollution that Beijing calls the cost of growth.
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China's ruling party opens its annual plenary session Thursday, with the communist elite battling to bolster its waning image amid an apparent power struggle between President Hu Jintao and military leader Jiang Zemin.
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The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon. The league flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China, featuring the Houston Rockets &#151; with Chinese-born star Yao Ming &#151; and the Sacramento Kings.
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Ahead of the Beijing Olympics, Chinese have been told to line up, use proper English and stop spitting. Now police are being told that slack behavior such as shooting the breeze or smoking could get them in trouble.
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The Chinese powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday. Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing? Hardly looked like it with the way they performed and everyone else stumbled.
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The9 looks to grow in China, but its earnings are going the wrong way.
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Asian powerhouses China and India have to grapple with some critical problems in their financial systems amid a projected slowdown in global economic growth, experts warn.
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STUTTGART, Germany -- China powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday, and now the questions are: Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing, and if so, how?
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Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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This is only February, and six months remain before the Beijing Olympics, but many elite track and field athletes are already establishing their Olympic credentials or trying and not succeeding.
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China&#39;s first Formula One race officially got underway Friday as cars took to the track for the first official practice. Michael Schumacher, who has already wrapped up his seventh circuit title was 15th in his first run on the brand-new, 3.388-mile track.
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Two NBA basketball teams, the Houston Rockets and Sacramento Kings have arrived in Shanghai preparing for China&#39;s inaugural NBA game, with both teams having a Chinese player.
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Millions of Chinese workers, many headed home for the New Year's holiday, face delays amid some of the country's worst weather in the last 50 years.
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For one thing, even if Chinese growth slowed in the third quarter, it won&#39;t indicate whether Asia&#39;s second-biggest economy is avoiding a hard landing.
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As unusually cold weather blankets much of central and southern China in snow and closes roads, one student had a bright idea about how to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday -- he would ski.