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09 December 2009 11:07 AM | Tagged: china moves indict dissident subversion
BEIJING - Police have finally presented a case against prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has been jailed for a year without charge after helping produce a high-profile manifesto calling for sweeping democratic reforms in China, a lawyer said Wedne

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09 December 2009 8:39 AM | Tagged: china club cancel year champions league campaign
BEIJING, Dec 9 - Chinese club Henan arecancelling the lunar New Year holiday in a bid to make a bigimpression in their first Asian Champions League (To query or comment on this story emailsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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09 December 2009 6:37 AM | Tagged: china bright spot climate green bulbs
BEIJING - As the world's top producer of energy-efficient light bulbs and a potentially massive market for them, China is seen as pivotal to greater worldwide acceptance of environmentally-friendly lighting. While also the largest producer of less-

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09 December 2009 5:49 AM | Tagged: china humiliating early exit east asian games
HONG KONG, Dec 9 - Chinese soccer suffered yetanother humiliation this week when the national under-21 teamfailed to get out of the group stage at the East Asian Games.A 1-0 victory over hosts Hong Kong on Tuesday was notenough to prevent the defen

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09 December 2009 2:27 AM | Tagged: china duo uk quarters robertson edged out
TELFORD, England - China will have two players in the last eight of the UK Championship, snooker's second most important tournament, after Liang Wenbo and Ding Junhui both won here on Tuesday. But Australia's Neil Robertson lost to John Higgins 9-8

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09 December 2009 1:57 AM | Tagged: rights growing threat china analysts
LONDON - Human rights are increasingly under threat in China, according to a British firm which analyses dangers for business worldwide, while also describing risks in Russia, Nigeria and India as extreme. While Afghanistan and Somalia are the wors

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08 December 2009 10:57 PM | Tagged: car sales race china india
Passenger car sales for November in the two fastest growing emerging markets, India and China, provided a further sign that momentum in the car industry is shifting to Asia.China car sales nearly doubled during the month against a year earlier, whil

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08 December 2009 2:57 PM | Tagged: manager training china
As trade with China becomes more and more important, the EU and China have set up a special training programme for small businesses. What are they learning?Copyright © 2009 euronews