After 60 years, China's Communists mean business BEIJING (Reuters) - Shortly after the Communist Party took power in China, capitalists in Shanghai paraded through the streets with drums and flags, asking the Party to take over their businesses. Non-embryonic stem cells pass major hurdle in mice WASHINGTON - Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance in mice in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn't involve destroying embryos. Australia presses China on Rio Tinto arrest SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia on Saturday made high-level representations in China over the arrest of a top mining executive on bribery claims, as diplomatic tensions deepened between the key trading partners.
Censor-defying Chinese director back at Cannes BEIJING (AFP) - Defying the authorities, controversial Chinese director Lou Ye is offering a movie on love and homosexuality at the Cannes film festival this week that was shot on the quiet in east China despite a state work ban.