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China’s stock market advances after 8 straight losing days
The Shanghai Composite is looking up today with a 1 percent gain, but investors are now concerned China's interest rates may be on the rise again.
Day One: Remembering and revisiting China
This week, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and a small team return to China — retracing the steps they took nearly five years ago on a similar trip — to see what has changed.
Chinese prisoners forced to play video games
That's the claim that a former prisoner made to the London newspaper The Guardian. He said that prisoners were forced by prison guards to play…
Ballmer goes to China, blasts China
The Microsoft CEO was in Beijing for the opening of a Microsoft R&D facility. He used the occasion to complain that Microsoft is seeing only…
Foxconn closes Chengdu facility
Not something that I love talking about because it seems so crass but the explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu factory in China looks to have a big…
Third Foxconn worker dies
An explosion of combustible dust at a Foxconn manufacturing facility has resulted in a third death. The victim was a worker at the Foxconn plant in…
Chinese egg and shoe attack possible
Weird headline, I know. Weird story too. A Twitter user who claims to be in China has claimed to have thrown an egg and a shoe at Fang Binxing, the…
Baidu and China sued over censorship
Eight democracy activists living in New York filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against both the Chinese search engine Baidu and the Chinese government….
U.S. presses China on finance reform
China reported today that exports hit a record high last month. Juli Niemann, analyst with Smith Moore and Company, explains how this news will impact trade discussions between the U.S. and China today in Washington.
China’s trade surplus surged in April
China has reported a trade surplus of $11.4 billion, nearly four times greater than expected. Gareth Leather with the Economist Intelligence Unit says this news could impact U.S. and Chinese trade talks.