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Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.

China began taking 30 percent of its cars in the capital off the roads in an attempt to make permanent some of the traffic restrictions imposed during the Olympic Games, officials and reports said.

Researchers in China are reporting a discovery that could turn rice straw into an inexpensive new renewable source of biofuel.

Their new study describes a way to boost production of biofuel from rice straw by almost 65 percent.

The growth in China's carbon dioxide emissions is far outpacing the previously expected trajectory for the country, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases even more difficult, according to a new analysis.

The US Pharmacopeial Convention and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the purpose of working together to strengthen the quality of medicines and foods in the United States and China.