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Sportswear firm Adidas AG is shifting some orders from a factory in south China that has been at the center of one of the country's biggest labor strikes, underlining a rising challenge for firms doing business in China where an increasingly savvy workforce is pushing harder for its rights.

Today is Thursday, April 24, the 114th day of 2014. There are 251 days left in the year.

Sina Corp, which runs the Weibo micro blogging site, loses 7.5% in value after China revokes two of its licences to publish.

China's official news agency says authorities plan to revoke two crucial publication licenses for web giant Sina.com because pornographic content was found on its sites.

A leading photovoltaic module manufacturer in China will cooperate with a French PV module manufacturer to satisfy the demands of the French national tender program, the company said.

Violence erupted on Vietnam's border with China last week when five Chinese civilians and two Vietnamese border guards were killed.

Pop star Justin Bieber has been lurching from crisis to crisis in recent months, but his latest faux pas could be his biggest, risking the affections of possibly a billion Beliebers.

A cleaner folds a cloth wipe near a Rolls-Royce Wraith displayed at the China Auto show in Beijing, Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

An initial peek at April manufacturing data Wednesda y suggests China's economy is beginning to stabilize after growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of the year.

U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington welcomes China's rise but that engagement with Beijing would not come at the expense of its Asian allies - as Chinese state media greeted his arrival in the region with a broadside accusing the United States of wanting to "cage" the emerging superpower.

Workers process laptop accessories at a factory in Dazu, Chongqing Municipality, April 22, 2014.

A prominent Chinese labor activist has been missing for more than 24 hours and his wife suspects he was detained by state security agents after trying to help workers involved in China's biggest strike in years organize their case.

Benzene was found in tap water supplied by the Lanzhou Veolia Water Company in the northwestern city of Lanzhou on April 10, forcing the city of 3.6 million people to turn off supplies in one district.

The Australian dollar has plunged by more than three-quarters of a cent, slipping below US93 as softer-than-expected inflation figures and as Chinese manufacturing activity slowed for the fourth-straight month.

A trip to the southwest of Guangzhou, to the town of Kaiping, offers a parallel reality that thrusts the traveler into a magical realm.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Israeli journalists on Tuesday that if peace talks do not continue, Israel will have to take on the burden of governing Palestinian lands.

Shandong Airlines, one of China's smaller carriers, said it has agreed to buy 50 passenger planes from US manufacturer Boeing for $4.6 billion, in another sign of the country's growing demand for air travel.

The on-off work stoppage at Yue Yuen Industrial Ltd.'s massive factory complex in southern China, which employs more than 40,000 workers, has stretched into the second week as both sides have failed to reach an agreement.

China's regulator posted draft initial public offering prospectuses for 18 Chinese firms on Monday, bringing the total number of potential issuers up to 46, with state media estimating they could raise as much as 22.6 billion yuan from investors.

Naval officials from the U.S. and nearly two dozen Asia-Pacific nations adopted an agreement Tuesday aimed at heading off accidents and miscommunication at sea to reduce the possibility of conflict amid rising frictions between an increasingly assertive China and its neighbors.