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www.nytimes.com — In China, where the market for imported passenger cars dates back only about three decades, an entirely alternate set of stereotypes is taking root — and the stakes have never been higher for foreign carmakers.

Take, for example, Mercedes-Benz, a brand that in much of the world suggests moneyed respectability. In China, many people think Mercedes-Benz is the domain of the retiree.

www.latimes.com — In a nation reeling from tainted-food scandals, organic products are mostly reserved for the rich and political elite. Chinese government officials have exclusive suppliers, who do not advertise. They don't want the public to know that their limited supply is sent to Communist Party officials, dining halls reserved for top athletes, foreign diplomats, and others in the elite classes.

www.theaustralian.com.au — Newly translated into English, Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village is a "fictional" account of something very real and very disgusting in the 1990s. The Henan blood catastrophe offers a glimpse one of the most sinister of all the myriad horrors -political, environmental and economic- that have befallen hundreds of millions of people in China since it began its breakneck development 30 years ago.

www.reuters.com — In 2007, two Congressmen privately admonished a Chinese official about the sudden spike in potentially harmful Made-in-China products being shipped around the world.
At the time, China was under fire from the US and other nations for a host of toxic exports - everything from lead paint in toys to poisonous chemical substitutes for ingredients in medicine and pet food.

tvnz.co.nz — Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand to speak out on behalf of Zhao Lianhai, a Chinese activist jailed for inciting social disorder in the wake of the 2008 tainted milk scandal. He founded the Kidney Stone Babies website to provide information for parents and push for more official accountability and compensation.