Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks (Reuters)
• U.S. launches first trade probe of 2010 against China (Reuters)
• Clinton calls for Chinese probe into Google cyberattacks (AFP)
• China declares crisis past, inflation a concern (AP)
• China: Google case not linked to ties with US (AP)
• Police, rioters clash in China over land: reports (AFP)
• China economy booms, poised to overtake Japan (AFP)
• Clinton says cyber attacks merit "consequences" (Reuters)
• China economy soars, sets stage for policy tightening (Reuters)
• Roubini calls on China to tighten monetary policy (Reuters)
• 300,000 more to move for Three Gorges Dam: report (AFP)
• China posts scorching growth but prices heat up (AFP)
• Baidu lawsuit 'without merit': US web firm (AFP)
• China jails former Tiananmen protest leader: lawyer (AFP)

Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.

U.S. launches first trade probe of 2010 against China (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:13 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. government will investigate charges that Chinese companies are selling oil well drill pipe in the United States at unfairly low prices, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.

Clinton calls for Chinese probe into Google cyberattacks (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:23 AM PST AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China on Thursday to investigate cyberattacks on Google and other US companies and called on US technology firms not to support Internet censorship.

China declares crisis past, inflation a concern (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:56 AM PST AP - China declared it is over the global crisis and signaled a shift in focus to controlling inflation, sparking concern it could hamper growth and the country's contribution to a worldwide rebound.

China: Google case not linked to ties with US (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:17 AM PST AP - Google's threat to pull out of China over concerns about censorship and security should not affect ties with the United States, a top Chinese official said Thursday, seeking to contain the government's dispute with the Internet giant.

Police, rioters clash in China over land: reports (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 09:11 AM PST AFP - Villagers tossed petrol bombs in a clash with police in southern China that left up to 10 injured, the latest in a rash of violent incidents linked to land disputes, state press reports said Thursday.

China economy booms, poised to overtake Japan (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:49 AM PST AFP - China appears to be on the brink of overtaking beleaguered Japan as the world's second-biggest economy after another blistering performance in 2009, analysts said on Thursday.

Clinton says cyber attacks merit "consequences" (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:16 AM PST Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned that Internet technologies were a mixed blessing because they are used by al Qaeda to spread hatred and by authoritarian states to crush dissent.

China economy soars, sets stage for policy tightening (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:37 AM PST Reuters - China easily beat its 2009 growth target after a blistering fourth quarter performance that set the stage for further monetary tightening and put it on course to overtake Japan to become the world's second-largest economy.

Roubini calls on China to tighten monetary policy (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:14 AM PST Reuters - Beijing needs to tighten its monetary policy to head off asset bubbles, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said on Thursday.

300,000 more to move for Three Gorges Dam: report (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:03 AM PST AFP - An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and its huge reservoir, state media reported on Thursday.

China posts scorching growth but prices heat up (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:38 AM PST AFP - China's red-hot economy expanded by 8.7 percent in 2009 but inflation surged towards the end of the year, according to government data released Thursday that laid bare the risks of overheating.

Baidu lawsuit 'without merit': US web firm (AFP) Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:18 AM PST AFP - A US web company on Thursday rejected as baseless a lawsuit filed against it by China's top Internet search engine Baidu, which is seeking damages over a hacker attack.

China jails former Tiananmen protest leader: lawyer (AFP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 11:15 PM PST AFP - A former leader of the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests has been jailed for nine years for fraud, after authorities in Hong Kong handed him over to China, his lawyer and a rights group said Thursday.

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