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A majority of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API's) used in manufacturing medicines worldwide are sourced from India and china. Have a look at the line graph and you will see the sharp rise in the API filings to the Food and Drug Administration from these two nations since 1997.

Scientists in Shenzhen have invented a robot that can cook.

The inventors, Fanxing Science and Technology CO. Ltd, say the robot can cook ...

John references a Sydney Morning Herald article which reported that the iTunes store is blocked in China allegedly due to Olympic athletes downloading pro-Tibetan music in (not so) silent protest.

Apple’s first China store is getting close to opening. But how close? TradingMarkets.com reported that the new SanLiTun store would be operational on July 19, well before the Opening Ceremonies kick off on August 8. However, ChinaTechNews, citing a popular Chinese news portal, Sina.com, reports that it won’t be until August. Beijing Apple fans, suss out the truth for us, will ya?

Coal is big, and getting bigger. As oil and natural gas prices soar, the world is relying ever more on the cheap, black-burning mainstay of the Industrial Revolution.

And nowhere is coal bigger than in China.

Just four days after British company Marks and Spencer opened its first store on the Chinese mainland, an Indian man died at the new store when he fell from an escalator on the fourth floor.

Chinese companies are setting up shop in the U.S. because it is actually cheaper or almost cheaper to set up shop here. But the more the west goes to China and drives up costs (particularly raw materials and HR costs), the more that China might be tempted to bring more of that capital here.

Direct from Grape Wall of China: "We ate and drank, ate and drank, ate and drank, then ate and drank some more - all in the name of research. The inaugural International Congress of Chinese Cuisine & Wine met in Beijing in May and put the livers and stomachs of some 100 participants to the test.

This post from Defence Tech isn't directly about China, but you can bet that a lot of Chinese are paying attention to Japan's new piece of military hardware.