Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Geithner: US wants bigger role for China in IMF (AP)
• China: Sanctions not the way push Iran on nukes (AP)
• China launches climate project with Britain, Switzerland: govt (AFP)
• China to host top-level summit with Japan and SKorea (AFP)
• Official denies Tibet ban for foreign visitors (AP)
• China faces new US trade complaint over paper (AP)
• China army promotes Mao Zedong grandson to general (AP)
• Australia defends military block to China investment (AFP)
• China start-up IPOs set high prices, stir worries (Reuters)
• China gets serious about carbon emissions, global warming (The Christian Science Monitor)

Geithner: US wants bigger role for China in IMF (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:32 PM PDT AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. supports China's bid for greater voting rights in international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank for itself and other fast-growing economies despite European reservations.

China: Sanctions not the way push Iran on nukes (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 12:16 PM PDT AP - China rejected the idea Thursday that more sanctions would pressure Iran to give up its nuclear program.

China launches climate project with Britain, Switzerland: govt (AFP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:13 AM PDT AFP - China has launched with Britain and Switzerland a project aimed at finding ways for the Asian giant to tackle climate change and mitigate its effects, officials said Thursday.

China to host top-level summit with Japan and SKorea (AFP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:12 AM PDT AFP - The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will meet in Beijing on October 10, the foreign ministry said here Thursday, for a summit likely to include discussions on North Korea's nuclear programme.

Official denies Tibet ban for foreign visitors (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:58 AM PDT AP - A Chinese official on Thursday denied reports that Tibet will be closed to foreign visitors over the sensitive Oct. 1 national day period.

China faces new US trade complaint over paper (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:39 AM PDT AP - A U.S. labor union and three paper companies have filed a new trade complaint over imports of Chinese paper, possibly fueling tensions between Washington and Beijing amid disputes over tires and other goods.

China army promotes Mao Zedong grandson to general (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:39 AM PDT AP - Mao Zedong's only grandson has become the youngest general in the People's Liberation Army at age 39, a Chinese newspaper said Thursday.

Australia defends military block to China investment (AFP) Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:16 PM PDT AFP - Australia's defence minister on Thursday stood by national security objections to a Chinese steelmaker gaining access to a mining project on a sensitive rocket-testing site.

China start-up IPOs set high prices, stir worries (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2009 10:54 PM PDT Reuters - The first 10 firms due to list on China's Nasdaq-style second board, ChiNext, plan to sell shares at prices 50 percent above their mainboard peers, just as worries over speculation spurred officials to tighten trading rules.

China gets serious about carbon emissions, global warming (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The pledge that Chinese President Hu Jintao made at Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York – to put the brakes on China's carbon dioxide emissions – may have been short on specifics.

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