Yahoo! News: World - China

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• U.S. delays China yuan probe in aluminum case (Reuters)
• Tibetan monks ordered out of China's quake zone (AP)
• China clones woollier cashmere goats (AFP)
• Day of mourning for China's earthquake victims (Reuters)
• Two jailed for life over Shanghai building failure (AFP)
• 2 China lawyers who defended Falun Gong face ban (AP)
• China's Ding breezes into second snooker round (AFP)
• China's Geely challenge: High hopes, hard reality (AP)
• Shanghai's Expo trials get crowded, rocky start (AP)
• China orders quarterly mortgage stress tests (AFP)

U.S. delays China yuan probe in aluminum case (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday delayed a decision on investigating whether China's currency practices are an illegal trade subsidy that justify imposing countervailing duties.

Tibetan monks ordered out of China's quake zone (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:26 AM PDT AP - Earthquake survivors say it was the Tibetan monks who helped first, bringing food, pitching tents and digging through rubble after disaster hit far western China a week ago, killing thousands.

China clones woollier cashmere goats (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:12 AM PDT AFP - Scientists in China have cloned a dozen goats engineered with a gene that boosts wool growth, with a view to increasing output of cashmere fibre, state-run media reported Wednesday.

Day of mourning for China's earthquake victims (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:22 AM PDT Reuters - Horns and sirens sounded and crowds bowed their heads in mourning on Wednesday in the western Chinese province where an earthquake a week ago devastated the heavily Tibetan county of Yushu.

Two jailed for life over Shanghai building failure (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:27 AM PDT AFP - Two bosses of a property development company that built a 13-storey building which fell over in Shanghai last year have been jailed for life on graft charges, state media reported on Wednesday.

2 China lawyers who defended Falun Gong face ban (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:38 AM PDT AP - Two Chinese lawyers who represented a Falun Gong practitioner face the permanent loss of their legal licenses — a new government tactic to tighten its grip on human rights defenders.

China's Ding breezes into second snooker round (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:32 AM PDT AFP - A sombre Ding Junhui breezed into the last 16 of the world championship on Wednesday, quickly wrapping up a 10-1 win over Stuart Pettman before expressing his sadness over last week's deadly earthquake in China.

China's Geely challenge: High hopes, hard reality (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:55 AM PDT AP - Chinese tycoon Li Shufu's car company Geely has a knack for giving its vehicles oddball names: Gleagle, King Kong, Englon.

Shanghai's Expo trials get crowded, rocky start (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:01 AM PDT AP - Visitors to Shanghai's World Expo say organizers have plenty of kinks to iron out before the event — the biggest-ever World's Fair — formally opens on May Day.

China orders quarterly mortgage stress tests (AFP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:38 AM PDT AFP - Chinese banking regulators have ordered lenders to conduct quarterly stress tests on mortgages as the government tries to clamp down on bad loans and rein in real estate speculation.

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