China Group Asserts That It Bombed Buses (Washington Post)
BEIJING, July 26 -- A group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party has released a video asserting responsibility for deadly bus bombings last week in China's western Yunnan province and other recent incidents, and threatening attacks during the Olympic Games.

China mustn't use security fears to curb dissent: Rice (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China must deal with security threats in the runup to the Olympics but avoid using them as "a cover" to muzzle political dissent, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned here Saturday.

China's largest oil and gas producer cuts jobs: state media (AFP via Yahoo! News)
China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, is to cut 5 percent of its workforce as it seeks to control costs after a fall in profits, state media said Saturday.

Parents of China quake victims can have second child (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Couples whose only child was killed or seriously injured in the May 12 Sichuan province earthquake may have another, winning an exemption from China's strict family planning rules, the China Daily said on Saturday.

Hot Rivalry: The U.S.-China In a Gold Medal Rush (Newsweek)
From its inception, Beijing 2008 was ballyhooed as a nation's coming-out party, one that would presage the Chinese Century. But you don't get your very own century without first establishing supremacy in international sports. Four years ago in Athens, China finished a surprising second in Olympic gold medals, ahead of Russia and just four behind the United States. If subsequent world titles are ...

Gymnastics: Olympics Face-off for U.S. and China (Newsweek)
China's girls on bars and beams are adorable. Ours are, too. More important, though, the Chinese and U.S. women's gymnastics teams are the best in the world, making this the one sport in which the two Olympic powers can really go to the mats. The American squad might be even more accomplished than the gold-winning "Magnificent Seven" from Atlanta in 1996. Its four leading lights—Shawn Johnson, ...

Quake shakes 1-kid rule in China (New York Daily News)
China has decided to allow parents whose children died or were disabled in May's earthquake to have more children, waiving strict family-planning controls. The Sichuan provincial legislature passed exemptions Friday to relax family planning laws.

Rice warns China on Olympic security (USA Today)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned China on Saturday not to use its massive Olympic security apparatus to crack down on legitimate dissent.

Ha Jin wants to visit China (AP via Yahoo! News)
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books.

China bends 1-child rule in quake area (AP via Yahoo! News)
Parents whose children died or were disabled in China's devastating earthquake will be allowed to have more children after lawmakers in the hardest-hit province waived strict family-planning controls, state media reported Saturday.