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Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media
(AFP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:28:24 GMT
 AFP - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.
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China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead
(AFP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:05:06 GMT
 AFP - Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.
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Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur
(AP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:08:15 GMT
AP - Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades.
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Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack
(Reuters)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:38:57 GMT
Reuters - A blast rocked a local tax office in central China, killing at least four people and injuring 19, in what police say appeared to be a deliberate attack, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.
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Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China
(AP)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:33:19 GMT
AP - An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.
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Jury weighs B-2 engineer's alleged secret-selling
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:07:08 GMT
AP - A federal jury in Hawaii has started deliberating in the trial of a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of selling military secrets to China.
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Four dead, 19 hurt in China tax office blast: state media
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:39:13 GMT
 AFP - Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.
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Shanghai journalists attacked after shampoo report
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:08:42 GMT
 AFP - Shanghai's National Business Daily said an editor and several journalists were attacked Friday by men claiming to work for a shampoo maker whose products have been alleged to contain toxic chemicals.
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US expert: China oil spill far bigger than stated
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:07:44 GMT
 AP - China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported — bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago — and some of the oil was dumped deliberately to avoid further disaster, an American expert said Friday.
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China races to recover chemical barrels from river
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:03:06 GMT
 AFP - Workers on Friday struggled to recover 3,000 barrels filled with hazardous chemicals that were swept into a river in northeast China by floods, amid fears some had sunk, state media said.
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China says convertible yuan the ultimate goal
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:46:05 GMT
 AFP - China wants the yuan to be fully convertible and such currencies are generally free-floating, a top central bank official said Friday, six weeks after Beijing pledged to loosen its grip on the yuan.
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China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:40:36 GMT
Reuters - China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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China says it opposes EU sanctions against Iran
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:26:00 GMT
AP - China said Friday that it opposes the sanctions the European Union is imposing on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying it supports Iran's renewed efforts to hold talks on a possible swap of nuclear fuel.
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China opposes new EU sanctions on Iran
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:33:43 GMT
Reuters - China said on Friday that it did not approve of tougher new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran, and welcomed Tehran's offer to return to negotiations on a nuclear fuel swap without conditions.
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Charles River Labs calls off WuXi Pharmatech buy
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:07:03 GMT
AP - Charles River Laboratories International Inc., a U.S. medical research equipment and services company, said Friday it is canceling a $1.6 billion acquisition of WuXi PharmaTech after shareholder objections.
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Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to travel US
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:14:26 GMT
 AP - Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare sweeping views to the north, south, east and west above the golden-tiled rooftops of the imperial palace.
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Taiwanese wary about China amid warming ties
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:07:31 GMT
 AP - In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble's comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can't help thinking it's all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.
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China criticizes Clinton comments on island chains
(AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:50:58 GMT
 AP - China's military on Friday criticized remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea resolved peacefully.
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China naval drill in South China Sea: state media
(AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:03:10 GMT
 AFP - China this week staged a large naval and air exercise on its southeast coast, as South Korea and the United States conducted their own naval drill opposed by Beijing, state media said Friday.
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China to crack down on pro-Cantonese protesters
(Reuters)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:56:00 GMT
Reuters - Authorities in China's southern city of Guangzhou will punish people who try and organize any more protests in support of the Cantonese dialect, a state-run newspaper said on Friday.
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