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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1
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 The New York Times 
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range
| Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are ta... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s.
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 Asia Times 
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
| By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the implications for US intere... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus)
Cars transit on the streets Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Two years ago, China zoomed past Japan to become the world's No. 2 vehicle market. Now it looks poised to pass the United States to be the biggest. While car sales in China have slowed lately, they haven't plummeted like those in the U.S., where January sales tumbled 37 percent from a year ago to 656,976 vehicles, a 26-year  The Boston Globe 
China passenger car sales up 55 pct in February
| SHANGHAI-China's passenger car sales climbed 55 percent from a year earlier in Feburary, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and sport utility vehicles, an industry gr... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
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Philips Electronics  Inquirer 
Philips sells shares in Hong Kong's TPV
| THE HAGUE—Dutch electronics giant Philips said Tuesday it had finalised the sale of 200 million shares in Hong Kong-based flat screen producer TPV Technology for a net $130 million (95 million euros... (photo: WN)
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Sleeper high-speed bullet train in China The Daily Mail
200mph train could link London and Beijing in just two days
| Rail travel between London and Beijing in just two days could be possible within a decade through an ambitious Chinese project. | The Asian power wants to build the 200... (photo: Creative Commons / Yaohua2000)
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South Korean Army soldier stands guard with his machine gun near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 28, 2009. South Korean and U.S. troops raised their alert Thursday to the highest level since 2006 after North Korea renounced its truce with the allied forces and threatened to strike any ships trying to intercept its vessels. The New York Times
Report: NKorea Has Medium-Range Missile Division
| Filed at 12:14 a.m. ET | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable o... (photo: AP / Lee Jin-man)
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Pu-erh Tea The Examiner
Rare Chinese teas available in the San Jose area.
| Bai Hao Yinzhen white tea.  Wikimedia Commons. | While most of the tea available in San Jose is of the good-quality standard kind, some of the local tea shops, and... (photo: Public Domain / OM2)
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Samsung - LCD - TV - Electronics - Appliance Korea Times
Samsung, LG Display Push LCD Investment
| By Kim Yoo-chul | Samsung Electronics and LG Display, the world's two biggest producers of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, are vowing to boost output, which has so... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Investor look at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Wednesday June 24, 2009, in Shanghai, China. The Boston Globe
China's shares edge up, renewable energy strong
| SHANGHAI, China-China's shares edged up Monday, led by renewable energy stocks on hopes of government support for the industry, but banks were mixed amid talk of possib... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
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