links for 2007-07-06

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Democratic front-runners in the November 2008 presidential race, signed on last week as co-sponsors of bipartisan legislation that was unveiled on June 13, Senate aides said.

But a company in the United States says the Chinese drug is basically stolen property, rushed to market with inadequate testing and in violation of patent rights.

The arrangement could be the first since normalization of China-Japan ties in 1972.

Fan Yinlong, an official with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, said Wednesday the city will cut traffic by about 1 million vehicles for two weeks in August. The period will roughly coincide with the dates for the 2008 Olympics — A

Rear Adm. Rick Wren, the commander of the Japan-based aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk’s battle group, told The Associated Press that Washington wants China to become a stabilizing force in Asia, but that it has some reservations about Beijing’s military e

Chrysler Group signed a deal Wednesday with China’s biggest automaker, Chery, to launch a low-cost production venture that could export the first Chinese-made cars to the United States.

Where Deng, the late political patriarch, dumped Maoism and reintroduced market economics, Mr Chen has transformed Nasdaq-listed Shanda’s business model by scrapping subscription fees for its “massively multiplayer online role-playing games”, or MMO

What’s interesting about the piece is that is reveals a great deal about Xinhua’s self-perceived role as the gatekeeper between Chinese news and English speaking world.