The District Court today sentenced a 26-year-old man, who was charged with attempted theft and conspiracy to steal, to 33 months in jail.

U.S. food and drug regulators will start working in China next month once Beijing gives its final approval, the top U.S. health official said Tuesday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the Food and Drug Administration is planning to open an office in China as part of a change in strategy following product [...]

Today in Xinhua:
A Chinese scholar from one of China's most prestigious universities claimed slums should be allowed to exist in China's big cities to provide shelters for the urban poor.
"It is no shame for big cities to have such areas. On the contrary, Shenzhen and other cities should take initiatives to build cheap [...]

An
article that was sitting in my mailbox that was just waiting for comment was entitled "EU and US team up on Chinese toys" from BBC News. It's a little old, but since the news was not covered on any of the blogs I frequent, I thought I would talk about it:
The EU and [...]

Customs officers have shut down a pirated optical disc syndicate, arresting four men and two women, aged 19 to 36.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded Tuesday that CNN's Jack Cafferty apologize for remarks he made last week, in which he called the Chinese "goons and thugs" and said products manufactured in China are "junk."
"Cafferty used the microphone in his hands to slander China and the Chinese people (and) seriously violated professional ethics of journalism and [...]