Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Paris mayor gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenship (AP)
• Frantic search for survivors of China avalanche (AFP)
• China influence to grow faster than most expect: Soros (Reuters)
• Former Tiananmen soldier depicts crackdown through art (AFP)
• Chinese rescuers attempt to save 27 trapped miners (AP)
• Chinese bus blaze may have been sabotage: report (AFP)

Paris mayor gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenship (AP) Posted: 07 Jun 2009 11:58 AM PDT AP - Paris' mayor has conferred a certificate of honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama, in a move that could further strain France's relations with China.

Frantic search for survivors of China avalanche (AFP) Posted: 07 Jun 2009 08:48 AM PDT AFP - Rescue workers are frantically digging and blasting through landslide debris in southwest China on Sunday, hoping to locate scores of people believed trapped under tonnes of rock, the government said.

China influence to grow faster than most expect: Soros (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:44 AM PDT Reuters - Financier George Soros said on Sunday that China's global influence is set to grow faster than most people expect, with its isolation from the global financial system and a heavy state role in banking aiding a relatively swift economic recovery.

Former Tiananmen soldier depicts crackdown through art (AFP) Posted: 07 Jun 2009 01:09 AM PDT AFP - An eerie realism permeates Chen Guang's oil paintings of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, for he was one of the first soldiers to arrive in the square on the night China?s democratic hopes were crushed.

Chinese rescuers attempt to save 27 trapped miners (AP) Posted: 07 Jun 2009 12:58 AM PDT AP - Rescuers blasted through mud and debris Sunday to try and reach 27 miners trapped after a massive landslide buried an iron ore plant and several homes in southwestern China, leaving 26 people dead and dozens missing.

Chinese bus blaze may have been sabotage: report (AFP) Posted: 06 Jun 2009 09:24 PM PDT AFP - Preliminary investigations suggest a fierce blaze which gutted a bus leaving 25 people dead and 76 injured in southwest China may have been started deliberately, according to state press.

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