New horizons and challenges in China's public schools for parent involvement.
Introduction The People's Republic of China, or using more current discourse, China, has revolutionized its economic bases and in doing so has become an emerging giant in business and commerce. With its population of 1.3 billion and its capital, Beijing with 13.8 million people, the significant economic...

Bittersweet 16th.
Byline: Curtis Anderson The Register-Guard Maria Mutola can see the finish line. It looms a mere two months ahead, in the sweltering August heat of Beijing, China, where the 35-year-old native of Mozambique plans to retire after competing in the 800 meters in her sixth...

Company Watch - AVIC China Aviation Industry Corp.
Jun 23, 2008 China is gearing up efforts to consolidate the manufacture of large commercial trunk aircraft with the merger of AVIC I and AVIC II, now scheduled to occur in July. The companies held a mobilization conference last weekend and established a group led by...

Aircraft Finance & Leasing News - Asia / Pacific.
Jun 23, 2008 AVIC, China Aviation Industry Corp. China is gearing up efforts to consolidate the manufacture of large commercial trunk aircraft with the merger of AVIC I and AVIC II, now scheduled to occur in July. The companies held a mobilization conference last weekend...

PPD Rolls Out Web-based Technology to Analyze Near Real-time Lab Data.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-25 June 2008-PPD Rolls Out Web-based Technology to Analyze Near Real-time Lab Data(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com PPD announced it has launched PPD Clicks, a secure Web site to provide clients with near real-time lab data from its global central lab facilities in Highland...

Google announced that its search engine would be made available to China's 100 million users with restrictions on politically sensitive terms and websites mandated by Beijing.
* Google announced that its search engine would be made available to China's 100 million users with restrictions on politically sensitive terms and websites mandated by Beijing. China's efforts to build a great wall around the Internet are probably vain in the long run, for though you can block...

PM Wen Jiabao of China gets new five-year term.
BEIJING, China (AP) -- Premier Wen Jiabao was appointed to a second five-year term as China's top economic official Sunday, leading efforts to cool soaring inflation and showcase the country to the world at the Beijing Olympics. Wen was named by China's ceremonial legislature as it approved...

Superpower play: China wants to announce its hegemonic ambitions with Olympic victory--but may fall short of the gold.
DESPITE THE COMBINED efforts of Steven Spielberg, the Dalai Lama, Muslim separatists, Western human-rights campaigners, and green activists, the Beijing Olympics are going to happen. At 08:08:08 on Aug. 8, 2008, China's Communist top brass will be crammed into Beijing's "bird's nest" stadium for the start of the Games....

Ethnic issue in Tibet protests.
Byline: LINDSAY BECK, Reuters BEIJING - China's leaders have long feared the impact of the country's yawning wealth gap on social stability. When protests in Tibet, its poorest region, flared into riots, their nightmare looked very real. The March 14 riot in Lhasa, the capital...

Ethnic issue in Tibet protests.
Byline: Lindsay Beck, Reuters BEIJING - China's leaders have long feared the impact of the country's yawning wealth gap on social stability. When protests in Tibet, its poorest region, flared into riots, their nightmare looked very real. The March 14 riot in Lhasa,...