Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Gang crackdown, lurid mob trials transfix China (AP)
• Obama, Hu vow to work for success of climate talks (AFP)
• US, China to meet next week for trade talks (AP)
• Gore: China, US must cooperate on climate change (AP)
• China sentences six to death in mega-mafia trial (AFP)
• India, China agree to cooperate on climate change (AP)
• China's Hu, Obama discuss climate talks: report (AFP)
• China's military buildup shows need for US dialogue: admiral (AFP)
• China's army to recruit 130,000 college grads (Reuters)
• Growing Chinese military creates uncertainty: U.S (Reuters)
• Admiral: US, China military relations thawing (AP)
• India, China leaders to meet amid war of words (Reuters)
• Dozens 'disappeared' in China's Xinjiang: group (AFP)
• China luxury sales to rise 12 pct in 2009: study (AFP)
• China's BAIC distances itself from arrested worker (AFP)
• Uighur leader urges Japan to press China on rights (AFP)
• China bond sale three times subscribed (AFP)
• Report: Myanmar timber still smuggled to China (AP)
• China secretly detained 43 Uighur men, group says (AP)

Gang crackdown, lurid mob trials transfix China (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 02:37 PM PDT AP - After she refused a corrupt cop's demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the hospital for nearly a month.

Obama, Hu vow to work for success of climate talks (AFP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao vowed in a phone call to work together to assure the success of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said Wednesday.

US, China to meet next week for trade talks (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 08:01 AM PDT AP - Obama administration officials said Wednesday they plan to raise a range of trade issues, from copyright piracy to China's restrictions on U.S. farm products, during two days of high-level talks next week in China.

Gore: China, US must cooperate on climate change (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 08:01 AM PDT AP - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that cooperation between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is crucial to tackling the climate change crisis.

China sentences six to death in mega-mafia trial (AFP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:57 AM PDT AFP - A court in southwest China sentenced six people to death Wednesday in trials that have lifted the lid on the murky underworld in Chongqing, with sordid tales of sex, gambling and corruption.

India, China agree to cooperate on climate change (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:29 AM PDT AP - India and China, both major polluters and crucial players in fighting global warming, agreed Wednesday to stand together on climate change issues at a major global conference later this year.

China's Hu, Obama discuss climate talks: report (AFP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:24 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday with the leaders voicing hope for progress at December climate change talks, China's state media reported.

China's military buildup shows need for US dialogue: admiral (AFP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT AFP - Beijing's "unprecedented" arms buildup has raised concern in the region and underscored the need to promote dialogue between Chinese and US military leaders, a top US officer said on Wednesday.

China's army to recruit 130,000 college grads (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 05:14 AM PDT Reuters - China's army will recruit 130,000 graduates from Chinese universities and colleges this winter to raise the quality of the armed forces and help solve the job crisis facing graduates.

Growing Chinese military creates uncertainty: U.S (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 04:56 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. military needs better dialogue with China to avoid "mistakes and miscalculations" given an unprecedented military expansion stoking uncertainty in the region, top U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.

Admiral: US, China military relations thawing (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 04:35 AM PDT AP - Military relations between the United States and China have begun to thaw after a year of limited contact, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Pacific Command said Wednesday.

India, China leaders to meet amid war of words (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 03:12 AM PDT Reuters - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Saturday, hoping to douse an escalating verbal duel between the Asian giants centered around their decades-old border dispute.

Dozens 'disappeared' in China's Xinjiang: group (AFP) Posted: 21 Oct 2009 01:18 AM PDT AFP - Dozens of members of China's Uighur minority including children remain unaccounted for more than three months after security forces rounded them up amid ethnic clashes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

China luxury sales to rise 12 pct in 2009: study (AFP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:38 PM PDT AFP - Sales of luxury goods in China are forecast to rise 12 percent this year, a global consulting firm said Wednesday, bucking the downward trend seen in other major markets hit hard by the financial crisis.

China's BAIC distances itself from arrested worker (AFP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT AFP - Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co (BAIC) sought Wednesday to distance itself from an employee indicted in the US for industrial espionage, saying it respected intellectual property rights.

Uighur leader urges Japan to press China on rights (AFP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:22 PM PDT AFP - Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, alleging that China has "destroyed" her Muslim people, is urging Japan's new government not to ignore their plight as it presses to bolster ties with Beijing.

China bond sale three times subscribed (AFP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT AFP - China's sale of six billion yuan in government bonds in Hong Kong, the first such offer outside the mainland, was three times subscribed, the finance ministry has said.

Report: Myanmar timber still smuggled to China (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:56 PM PDT AP - There has been a sharp decline in timber illegally imported into China from Myanmar, but smugglers are still supplying Chinese companies that export the wood to Europe, America and throughout the world, an environmental watchdog agency said Wednesday.

China secretly detained 43 Uighur men, group says (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 06:59 PM PDT AP - Three months after deadly ethnic rioting in China's far west, dozens of men from the Uighur ethnic group remain unaccounted for after being detained in police sweeps, a human rights group said Wednesday.

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