Reuters - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it did not have sufficient legal grounds to investigate if China's currency practices effectively subsidize its exports in separate trade cases brought by U.S. aluminum and paper producers.
AP - The Obama administration, under congressional pressure to take a tough stance on Chinese trade policies, determined Tuesday that Beijing unfairly subsidized $514 million in aluminum products last year.
Reuters - General Motors expects competitive pricing for its electric Chevrolet Volt in China as it hopes to gain a foothold in China's fledgling environmentally friendly car industry with the highly anticipated car.
AFP - China will spend billions of dollars treating sewage and planting forests to arrest massive environmental degradation along the Yangtze river and its Three Gorges reservoir, officials said Tuesday.
AFP - Nearly 60 students and teachers at a technical school in northwest China, including some from a town ravaged by mudslides this month, have been hospitalised with dysentery, state media said Tuesday.
AFP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday wowed Chinese visitors at the World Expo by bringing something no other global leader has -- the FIFA World Cup.
AFP - North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-Il emphasised the "rising generation" during a visit to China that analysts said was part of an elaborate transition to his nation's second dynastic succession.
Reuters - Chinese police "accidentally" shot dead an ethnic Tibetan during a protest in southwestern China two weeks ago, state news agency Xinhua said Monday.