Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Senior U.S. official on China trade resigns (Reuters)
• China's President Hu signs up for microblogging (AFP)
• 23 suspects to stand trial in China for CCTV fire (AP)
• U.S. pinpoints code writer behind Google attack: report (Reuters)
• China throws birthday bash for Zimbabwe's Mugabe (Reuters)
• Interest in China school after Google hack report (AFP)

Senior U.S. official on China trade resigns (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST Reuters - A senior American trade official in charge of handling disputes with China has left the U.S. Trade Representative's office to take a job in the private sector, his new employer said on Monday.

China's President Hu signs up for microblogging (AFP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 09:41 AM PST AFP - China's President Hu Jintao has set up a microblogging account that has drawn thousands of followers as of Monday, in a country where social networking sites remain tightly controlled.

23 suspects to stand trial in China for CCTV fire (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 06:03 AM PST AP - Twenty-three people will go on trial this week for alleged involvement in a deadly fire triggered by an illegal fireworks display that gutted a hotel at the new headquarters of China's main television network last year, a court official said Monday.

U.S. pinpoints code writer behind Google attack: report (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 05:52 AM PST Reuters - U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware programme used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

China throws birthday bash for Zimbabwe's Mugabe (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2010 03:31 AM PST Reuters - China said on Monday its embassy in Zimbabwe had thrown a birthday party for President Robert Mugabe, a rare sign of foreign support for a leader reviled by many Zimbabweans and criticized by the United States and Europe.

Interest in China school after Google hack report (AFP) Posted: 21 Feb 2010 11:35 PM PST AFP - A Chinese school accused last week of links to cyberattacks on Google that have strained Sino-US ties has since received a flood of calls from students interested in attending.

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