Four pandas, including a set of twins, were born in captivity within 14 hours of each other in China. The births, Saturday and into Sunday, were all at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre in south-west Sichuan province, the largest facility for captive Panda's in the world with 71 panda's, according to China's official news station, Xinhua.

A Pennsylvania casket maker has sued again the Chinese firm it sued in 2006 for the same complaint: selling alleged copies of its coffin in Texas. The new lawsuit of the York Group prompted a Houston court to temporarily stop the Wuxi Taihu Tractor Co. from selling caskets allegedly resembling the U. S. firm's product effective Wednesday. The first hearing of the case at Houston district court is scheduled on Friday.

A Pennsylvania casket maker has sued again the Chinese firm it sued in 2006 for the same complaint: selling alleged copies of its coffin in Texas. The new lawsuit of the York Group prompted a Houston court to temporarily stop the Wuxi Taihu Tractor Co. from selling caskets allegedly resembling the U. S. firm's product effective Wednesday. The first hearing of the case at Houston district court is scheduled on Friday.

A 5-year-old Kentucky girl with a rare disease was refused by two airlines to board a plane from Canada to China for her treatment, saying she was too sick to fly. The girl was to receive stem cell treatments for a rare fatal disease at a Beijing hospital. After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, KY, when the airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that she was not fit to fly for 11-hour trip.

Familiar faces on wedding banquets involving a Canadian groom and an Indian bride were the giveaway that aroused the suspicion of Canadian immigration officials that marriage for convenience syndicates were behind the move to fast track the acquisition of resident visas by Indian nationals. After their curiosity was challenged, visa officers compared files of wedding photos submitted as proof of a legitimate wedding, which led to the conclusion syndicates were behind the rent-a-guest modus operandi.