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Treasury nominee signals more confrontational stance with China over its currency practices.

They were scapegoats in a failed product-safety system, says a lawyer for some of the nearly 300,000 babies sickened by tainted formula.

Parents of babies sickened by formula in China's largest food-tampering scandal vowed Thursday to continue their legal fight over compensation after a court sentenced two men to death in the case and handed down stiff sentences to others.

China's government said the economy expanded 6.8% from a year earlier, confirming a dramatic downturn that has cut growth rates nearly in half in just a single year.

Returning to Beijing after the Cultural Revolution, Li Songtang devoted himself to rescuing scraps of history, work made more urgent by today’s redevelopment.

In China, where many businesses count on a New Years shopping boom for a big share of annual sales, the global slowdown hurts and could further depress its falling growth rate.

China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures.

He is shown in a dozen flattering photographs at a Beijing exhibit marking 30 years of Sino-U.S. diplomatic ties. Many Chinese openly express affection toward Xiao Bush, or 'Young Bush.'

China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.

The parents, who children were sickened by tainted milk, say they will press for long-term health care for the victims, and demand medical research into the illnesses.