China

LAYTON -- A local family is welcoming into their home a 14-month-old girl whom they named years before she was even born.

WASHINGTON — China’s high-flying economy is starting to lose altitude. The big question is whether the world’s economic superstar will shrink gradually — or so fast that it harms a fragile global economy.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday weighed whether to punish China for undervaluing its currency and taking away American jobs. At issue is whether legislation would boost the American economy, as its supporters argue, or initiate a damaging trade war with a major partner.

BEIJING -- China launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power.

BEIJING -- Public criticism grew Tuesday in China over the government's explanation for the weekend crash of two high-speed trains that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 190.

The brewing dissatisfaction offered a rare challenge to China's reputation for being able to build massive infrastructure at a rapid clip.

KAYSVILLE -- Dallin Abendroth, a Davis High School senior, has received a scholarship to travel to China for the summer.

Abendroth was awarded the National Security Language Initiative for Youth Scholarship for 2011.

LOS ANGELES -- On the surface, Yi Qing Chen appeared to be a straight-laced businessman exporting plastic junk from the U.S. to China.

Secretly, Chen was a smuggler willing to sneak into the U.S. whatever would fit into 40-foot shipping containers -- be it fake Marlboros, or ultimately, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles that could target F-15 or F-16 fighter jets, authorities say.

Chen, who was convicted last October of trafficking in counterfeit cigarettes, distributing drugs, and conspiring to import the missiles, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison.