Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Senators praise Utah gov as China ambassador pick (AP)
• Report: US, China must improve climate cooperation (AP)
• Chinese experts grow live mice from skin cells (Reuters)
• China media say 4 dead, 50 missing in landslide (AP)
• Graying Shanghai encourages couples to have 2 kids (AP)
• China's leaders seek economic stability (AP)
• Landslides, floods plague quake-hit southwest China (Reuters)
• China delays launch of first space telescope to 2012 (Reuters)
• Four people dead, 53 missing in China landslide (AFP)
• China news blackout linked to president's son (AFP)
• China's military to launch official Web site (AP)
• Rain hinders efforts to rescue 23 miners in China (AP)

Senators praise Utah gov as China ambassador pick (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 12:57 PM PDT AP - Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said Thursday he would work with the Chinese government to shore up the global economy and to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons effort if he is confirmed as ambassador to China.

Report: US, China must improve climate cooperation (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 11:05 AM PDT AP - The United States and China should use high-level meetings between the two countries next week to negotiate improved cooperation on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, says a new report by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Chinese experts grow live mice from skin cells (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 09:03 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups.

China media say 4 dead, 50 missing in landslide (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 08:17 AM PDT AP - A landslide triggered by heavy rain hit a county in southwestern China's Sichuan province early Thursday, killing at least four people and leaving 50 others missing, state media said.

Graying Shanghai encourages couples to have 2 kids (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 08:03 AM PDT AP - Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to have a second child in a bid to lessen the burden of the city's growing senior population.

China's leaders seek economic stability (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 06:31 AM PDT AP - China's powerful Politburo said Thursday that economic stability and the success of a $586 billion stimulus package are top priorities ahead of the 60th anniversary of Communist rule in October.

Landslides, floods plague quake-hit southwest China (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:52 AM PDT Reuters - Four construction workers are dead and more than 50 missing after a landslide took out a dam project in Sichuan province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China.

China delays launch of first space telescope to 2012 (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:35 AM PDT Reuters - China has delayed the launch of its first space telescope, designed to detect black holes, by two years to 2012 for cost reasons, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

Four people dead, 53 missing in China landslide (AFP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 05:07 AM PDT AFP - Four people were killed and 53 remained missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in a remote and mountainous area of southwest China on Thursday, the government said.

China news blackout linked to president's son (AFP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:03 AM PDT AFP - China's Internet censors blocked news Thursday about a graft probe in Namibia involving a firm linked to the son of President Hu Jintao, as the state-run media ignored the sensitive issue.

China's military to launch official Web site (AP) Posted: 23 Jul 2009 01:57 AM PDT AP - China's Defense Ministry will launch its first official Web site next month in what state media said Thursday was an effort by the secretive military to be more transparent.

Rain hinders efforts to rescue 23 miners in China (AP) Posted: 22 Jul 2009 08:25 PM PDT AP - Heavy rains hindered efforts to rescue 23 miners who became trapped early Thursday in flooding at a mine in northeastern China, a local authority said.

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