Wednesday, February 22, 2006

News

East Meets West, Adding Pounds and Peril: May Chen is slender and healthy, a lively little girl whose parents left their rural Chinese village just a decade ago in search of a better life. But at age 9, still in pigtails, she is already coming face to face with the forces that many say are making America fat and diabetic.

China's Changing Economic Balance: Its trade surplus continues to cause friction, but a World Bank report indicates that domestic demand is starting to drive the nation's growth.

China cracking down on junk e-mail: China is cracking down on junk e-mail and "illegal" mobile phone text messages. A new regulation will ban sending e-mail for advertising purposes to people without their permission

Beijing tries to "civilise" residents ahead of Olympics: Beijing will launch a major "civilisation" campaign to target spitting, littering and etiquette in an effort to clean up the city's image ahead of the 2008 Olympics.


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