US says China's Baidu, Taobao markets for piracy

The U.S. government has labeled China's top search engine, Baidu, and a accepted e-commerce platform "notorious markets" connected to sales of plagiarized and fake goods.

The two companies were amongst 33 websites or public markets in China, Russia, India and additional countries that the U.S. Trade legislative body office said Monday make easy trade in music, clothing and other goods that are false or unauthorized copies.

China is a leading basis of fake and counterfeit goods in spite of repeated government crackdowns. Beijing launched its latest enforcement attempt in October and says it hopes to attain lasting results.

The USTR statement said Baidu links to websites that sell pirated or imitation goods while external merchants use Taobao, an e-commerce platform operated by Alibaba Group Ltd., to sell infringing items. It said the list was not a legal judgment but an effort to call concentration to abuses and encourage governments to end them.

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Hu urges closer US-China ties as world powers

Chinese President Hu Jintao deprived of his country is an armed danger despite its arms increase and pushed the U.S. on Thursday for earlier collaboration between the global powers. He urge the United States to treat China "with respect and as equals" after encounter a fresh bombardment of criticism from lawmakers in excess of human rights.

In a luncheon speech to American business managerial, Hu also urged the U.S. to go on to know China's rule over Taiwan and Tibet.

"China-U.S. relations will take pleasure in smooth and sturdy growth when the two countries switch well issues involving each other's most important interests. Otherwise, our relationships will suffer unvarying trouble or still tension," Hu said as he enfolded up his state visit to Washington.

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US, China ink $45 bln in export deals

The United States and China have proclaimed a raft of trade deals worth $45 billion, as the two powers tried to slender disputes by tethering their monetary fortunes.

Lauding 70 trade accords with exporters in 12 US states, presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao edged away from the fevered rhetoric of new months to stress mutual dependency, despite remaining tensions.

Obama spoken trust that relations could be recast, setting aside "old stereotypes" and allow US firms to more without difficulty assistance from China's immediate expansion.

"I extremely deem that China's passive rise is good for the world, and it's good for America," Obama insisted Wednesday.

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White House calls on China to restrain N. Korea

The White House on Thursday called on China to rein in its North Korean allies in order to "stabilize" the alienated peninsula as the top bureaucrat in the US military returned from the region.

"China is in a place to have strong influence over the actions and the presentation of the North Koreans," White House press escritoire Robert Gibbs told reporters.

"It is our conviction that they should use their influence in that country to become stable the region," he added, when asked about a visit to the district by Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Mullen was predictable to brief US President Barack Obama about the trip, which came as part of a flurry of tactful activity aimed at reducing stress on the peninsula after a deadly North Korean attack last month.

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Setbacks aside, Obama claims stronger global hand

President Barack Obama claimed a stronger hand on the world stage Friday despite electoral defeats at home, breakdown to get a free-trade accord with South Korea and lackluster worldwide hold for his get-tough policy with China on deal and currency dispute.

"It wasn't any easier to talk about money when I was first chosen and my poll numbers were at 65 percent," Obama argued at the close of the G-20 summit, following frankly reproachful Beijing of undervalue its currency.

The president flew to Japan for the APEC peak without the coveted trade deal with Korea or a united front with additional countries against China's currency policy. He also endured a gusher of censure from other countries about a decision by the U.S. central bank to pump $600 billion into the U.S. economy, something China, Germany and others consider could grow weaker the dollar and lead to inflation.

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China tells U.S. to keep out of South China Sea dispute

China tells the United States not to get in the way in a regional argument over claims to the South China Sea, saying it would only make difficult the matter.

Japan's NHK TV report last week that the United States and Southeast Asian country may proclaim a joint declaration on September 24 that obliquely presses China over its recent behavior near disputed isles in the South China Sea.

China has been more and more strident in declaring its territorial claims, particularly maritime ones.

In the past week, it has balanced high-level exchanges with Japan and assured tough counter-measures following a court there extended the custody of the captain of a Chinese boat which collided with two Japanese coastguard ships near borderline islands.

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Flooding ravages large swaths of Asia

China – saviors lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid groups choked the road into the distant Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing Monday from landslides reasoned by heavy rain that has flooded swaths of Asia and increase misery to millions.

In Pakistan, the United Nations said the government's approximation of 13.8 million people exaggerated by the country's worst-ever floods go beyond the joint total of three recent mega disasters — the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Saviors in hilly Indian-controlled Kashmir raced to rescue dozens of trapped foreign trekkers and find 500 people still absent in flash floods that have killed 140.

In China, the death toll bounded to 337 late Monday after Sunday's landslides in the northwestern region of Gansu — the deadliest occurrence so far in the country's worst flooding in a decade. A debris-blocked swollen river burst, swamping entire mountain villages in the county seat of Zhouqu and ripping homes from their basics.

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Gunman kills 3 judges in China court

A man shot dead three judges and wounded another three before killing himself in a court office in central China Tuesday, state news said.

The alleged gunman, Zhu Jun, barged into an office at a local court in Yongzhou City, in Hunan province, just after 10 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Monday) and shot the judges, authorities told the Xinhua news agency.

Zhu, 46, headed a security squad in Lingling District, Xinhua reported. Earlier that morning, Zhu took a submachine gun and two pistols from a subordinate and said he would have the guns examined by higher authorities, Xinhua said.

Zhu, who lived with his parents, had a son and was divorced from his wife, Xinhua reported.

The investigation showed Zhu committed the attack to take revenge on the court, Xinhua said.

Zhu's family and colleagues told police Zhu thought the court unjustly handled the property division when the couple divorced three years ago, Xinhua said.

The victims were not involved in Zhu's divorce case, police said, according to Xinhua.

Zhu was on sick leave at home for two months and only came back to work three days ago, they said.

Dad tries to auction off chained son

• Impoverished dad tries to sell his son
• Angry onlookers break up auction
• He wasn't interested in the money

AN impoverished father has tied his eight-year-old boy in a post and tried to auction him off to the highest bidder in China.

Yong Tsui attempted to entice passers-by into making an offer with assurances that his son, Fai, was a hard worker, The Daily Mail reports.

However, the auction came to a violent end after onlookers heard bidders asking how little they would have to feed the boy.

Several people attacked Mr Yong, with one putting him in a headlock until police arrived.

Mr Yong told officers in Wuhan, central China, that his wife had died three years ago and that he could no longer afford to take care of the boy.

"He has no job, no home and no money. He says he wasn't interested in the money, just finding a home for the boy," said police, who have put boy into care.


Mr Yong was reportedly inspired to auction his boy after reading about a rickshaw driver who chained his two-year-old son to a lamppost while he went out to work because he couldn't afford childcare.

Pictures of the toddler, Cheng Jingdan, were published around the world and led to nursery giving him a free place.

Child abduction and child slavery is rife in China.

Last week police in Wuhan freed two naked girls who had been locked in a basement for almost a year.

They were rescued after a repairman found a note they had managed to smuggle out in a broken television.