A POWERFUL aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China yesterday, causing hundreds of new casualties and straining recovery efforts from the country’s worst earthquake in three decades.

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More than 400 were injured by the shock, the strongest of dozens which have hit since the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.

Under Hu Jintao’s leadership, China is looking abroad but faces obstacles When Lenovo bought IBM’s PC operation in 2005, it was seen as a landmark deal in Chinese corporate history.

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China has evacuated more than 150,000 people living below an swollen lake formed by this month’s devastating earthquake amid fears it could burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday.

As a sponsor of the Beijing Olympics, McDonald’s has built most of its global marketing campaign around the idea of people from all over the world coming together in a festival of sport.

Pushed to the brink by $135 crude, some Asian nations are finally allowing subsidized fuel prices to rise sharply, just the thing to help temper demand.

Supply chain managers aren’t necessarily known for being the life of the party, something Alexander the Great noted more than 2,000 years ago.