AP – China’s inflation spiked higher in February, adding to pressure on Beijing to prevent overheating and keep the recovery in the world’s third-largest economy on track.
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AFP – China said Thursday that consumer prices rose in February for the fourth straight month while new lending slowed sharply from a month earlier, as the government stepped up efforts to tame inflation.

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SPACE.com – China has selected two military air transport pilots as
its first female astronauts, the country’s state media reported Wednesday. The
only hitch? The women had to be hitched – as in married – to make the cut.
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AP – Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda.

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AFP – A Chinese editor involved in authoring an unusually bold editorial that demanded reform of a controversial household registration system says he and others have suffered retaliation.

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