Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Tibetan plateau quake kills at least 23: report (Reuters)
• Opening statements begin in Hawaii spy trial (AP)
• Tibetan plateau quake kills at least four: report (Reuters)
• Western Chinese province struck by 6.9 earthquake (AP)
• Obama hopes for yuan move, but China pushes back (Reuters)
• A rise in China's currency would have slow impact (AP)
• Geithner says will press China on fair trade rules (Reuters)
• China plans to curb foreign investment in polluting sectors (AFP)
• China says U.N. action on Iran must aid diplomacy (Reuters)
• China's Hu rebuffs Obama on yuan (AP)
• Japan says China subs, warships came near Okinawa (AP)
• Man with cleaver rampages near China school, 2 die (AP)
• China says mine flood 'could have been avoided' (AFP)
• China says military ties with US still suspended (AP)
• Hu tells Obama: China to make its own call on yuan (Reuters)
• Obama presses Hu on yuan exchange rate (AFP)
• China's Tencent to buy into Russian Internet firm (AFP)
• China Eastern in global alliances airlines talks (AFP)
• China stabbings spur public call for school security (Reuters)
• Obama, Hu in Iran sanctions breakthrough: US (AFP)

Tibetan plateau quake kills at least 23: report (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:11 PM PDT Reuters - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 23 people and trapped many others in collapsed houses in the ethnic Tibetan town of Yushu, Qinghai province, on the mountainous Tibetan plateau.

Opening statements begin in Hawaii spy trial (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:51 PM PDT AP - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of betraying the U.S. by selling military secrets to China for greed and money, but his defense countered that the information he passed on was "obvious" and "well-known."

Tibetan plateau quake kills at least four: report (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:28 PM PDT Reuters - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least four people and trapped many others in collapsed houses in the ethnic Tibetan town of Yushu, Qinghai province, on the mountainous Tibetan plateau.

Western Chinese province struck by 6.9 earthquake (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:40 PM PDT AP - A series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the remote rural area, though witnesses described houses quickly crumbling.

Obama hopes for yuan move, but China pushes back (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:54 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that China had yet to set a timetable for reforming the yuan despite "frank" conversations with President Hu Jintao and a Chinese spokesman said Beijing would not bow to foreign pressure on currency reform.

A rise in China's currency would have slow impact (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:56 PM PDT AP - Despite its latest public pushback, China is expected to soon let its currency rise against the dollar, a long-sought goal of U.S. manufacturers.

Geithner says will press China on fair trade rules (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday the Obama administration will push China forcefully to open its markets and maintain fair trading rules.

China plans to curb foreign investment in polluting sectors (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:24 AM PDT AFP - China said Tuesday it planned to curb foreign investment in polluting sectors and instead direct it into high technology and new energy.

China says U.N. action on Iran must aid diplomacy (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:41 AM PDT Reuters - China said on Tuesday it wanted any U.N. Security Council action on Iran to promote a diplomatic way out of the nuclear standoff, edging closer to openly backing a resolution while hedging on sanctions.

China's Hu rebuffs Obama on yuan (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:17 AM PDT AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao rebuffed U.S. calls to re-value China's currency, telling President Barack Obama that any tinkering with the yuan will be done by Beijing in accord with domestic interests.

Japan says China subs, warships came near Okinawa (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:35 AM PDT AP - Two Chinese submarines and several warships were spotted in international waters off Japan's southern island of Okinawa at the weekend, and Tokyo is investigating what the military vessels were doing there, the defense minister said Tuesday.

Man with cleaver rampages near China school, 2 die (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:53 AM PDT AP - A mentally ill Chinese man rampaged with a meat cleaver near an elementary school, hacking to death a second grader and an elderly woman, the local government said Tuesday. Five others were wounded in the second random attack on schoolchildren in China in three weeks.

China says mine flood 'could have been avoided' (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:45 AM PDT AFP - China's work safety watchdog said Tuesday a coal mine flood that has so far killed 36 people could have been prevented, as rescue workers still searched for two missing people.

China says military ties with US still suspended (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:29 AM PDT AP - Military exchanges between China and the United States are still suspended, a People's Liberation Army spokesman said Tuesday, despite a recent warming of relations between the countries.

Hu tells Obama: China to make its own call on yuan (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:39 AM PDT Reuters - China will chart its own course in reforming the yuan, President Hu Jintao told President Barack Obama, reinforcing the view that Beijing is likely to tip-toe, not leap, toward appreciation.

Obama presses Hu on yuan exchange rate (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:32 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama has kept up the pressure on China to revalue its yuan, telling President Hu Jintao to adopt a more "market-oriented" exchange rate for the Chinese currency.

China's Tencent to buy into Russian Internet firm (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:59 PM PDT AFP - Chinese Internet portal Tencent Holdings said it will acquire a 10.26 percent stake in Digital Sky Technologies Ltd (DST), a Russian Internet investment firm and Facebook shareholder.

China Eastern in global alliances airlines talks (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:51 PM PDT AFP - China Eastern Airlines said Tuesday it is in talks with all the three global airline alliances after a French newspaper reported that the carrier is set to join the SkyTeam Alliance.

China stabbings spur public call for school security (Reuters) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:59 PM PDT Reuters - A knife-wielding man attacked pupils and parents outside a primary school in southwestern China, killing a boy and an older woman and reviving public calls for better school security, state media reported.

Obama, Hu in Iran sanctions breakthrough: US (AFP) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 07:21 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have agreed to jointly push for new nuclear sanctions on Iran, US officials said, heralding an apparent diplomatic breakthrough.

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