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China's unofficial lending falters, savers protest
Ms. Zhang, a schoolteacher in the central city of Anyang, lent $43,000 last year to entrepreneurs who couldn't get loans from state banks. Now as growth cools and Beijing cracks down on informal credit, Zhang and thousands of other small lenders are unpaid and angry.Underground lending by ordinary Chinese like Zhang flourished over the past decade, providing trillions of yuan (hundreds of billions

18-year-old Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in Sichuan province

An eighteen-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk has self-immolated himself outside a monastery in western China after shouting slogans in favor of Tibetan independence and spiritual Tibetan leader the

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China faces conflict of law, business in iPad row

Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark — side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that

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'Linsanity' a boon for NBA in China

The excitement surrounding New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is providing a fresh impetus to the NBA's lucrative China business in the wake of Yao Ming's retirement.

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China's heir apparent wraps up US visit in LA

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's pivotal four-day visit to the United State brings him and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday to Los Angeles, where the vast trade imbalance between the two

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China faces conflict of law, business in iPad row

Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark — side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that

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