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June 2007
- FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript
  
  Associated Press | Jun 27, 07 7:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" has turned up at a Philadelphia auction house, having gone missing in 1966. The FBI was called in after the daughter of one of the author's secretaries tried to put it for sale, the AP reports. Buck died in1973, believing the 400-page manuscript of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel had been stolen. More »
- China Shutters Scores of Food Factories
  
  Associated Press | Jun 27, 07 12:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chinese government has closed 180 factories that were using dangerous and illegal ingredients, such as formaldehyde, in food products. The relatively large number of plants casts serious doubt on Beijing's insistence that the recent rash of tainted products originated with a small number of sources, the AP reports: A government official said the shutdowns were "not isolated cases." More »
- China Raises Profile in Africa
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Jun 27, 07 9:28 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China is increasing the number of UN peackekeepers it sends to Africa and raising its profile on the continent, creating a kind of "peace corps" to address problems from job shortages to health care, the Christian Science Monitor reports. China, itself a developing nation, appears determined to both do good and do well in large and small ways. More »
- Chinese Kids Tire of Communism
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jun 26, 07 11:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chinese kids are bored stiff with the Communist philosophy still force-fed in their university system. Classes in Marxism have been mandatory since Mao, but cell-phone-weilding students entranced by China's burgeoning capitalist infrastructure are having trouble relating. "It's something like fiction," one student says of the readings in Das Kapital. More »
- Murdoch Kowtows to China
  
  New York Times | Jun 26, 07 8:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's imperial ambitions in China have been marked by relentless cozying to its communist regime—motivated by equal parts opportunism and sinophilia—the Times reports. Murdoch's China outlets have toed the party line energetically, and the mogul, whose wife is a high-powered mainlander, has even personally lashed the Dalai Lama. More »
- Internet Users Slam Chinese Censorship
  
  Reuters | Jun 20, 07 4:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Frustration with government curbs on the Internet is growing among China's 140M web users. Wikipedia has been banned, and the censors recently shuttered photo-sharing web site Flickr, after a user uploaded a picture of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tens of thousands of human monitors and an elaborate filter system keep watch over China's browsers. More »
- China's CO2 Output Passes US
  
  BBC | Jun 20, 07 5:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China has overtaken the US as the world's biggest CO2 emitter. A Dutch study says China is coughing up 9% more fossil fuel into the air than last year, compared with a 1.4% increase from the superpower across the Pacific. And the trend is up: China's industry is growing so fast, it's building two new power stations a week to meet energy demands. More »
- Safety of Chinese-Made Toys Is Hardly Child's Play
  
  New York Times | Jun 19, 07 7:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The latest Chinese products posing safety problems for consumers are children's toys, joining toothpaste, pet food, and drugs on an increasingly worrisome list, the New York Times reports. Last week's recall of Thomas & Friends train toys brought the total number of toys recalled by the US this year to for safety reasons to 24—all made in China. More »
- EU Set to Ban Cat and Dog Fur
  
  BBC | Jun 19, 07 6:14 AM CDT