Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Now a good time for China property tax: researcher (Reuters)
• Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China (AP)
• China's Alarming Spate of School Knifings (Time.com)
• Shanghai ready to welcome world to Expo (AFP)
• US congratulates China on lifting HIV visitors ban (AFP)
• U.S. piles more duties on China, Indonesia paper (Reuters)
• China will undertake greater global role: Wen (AFP)
• Wen vows fairness for foreign, Chinese companies (AP)
• 32 hurt in latest China school knife attack (AFP)
• Chinese man stabs children in kindergarten, 31 hurt (Reuters)
• Deadly school attacks in China (AP)
• Sarkozys see Great Wall, Ming Tombs on China visit (AP)
• China urges banks to broaden profit channels (Reuters)

Now a good time for China property tax: researcher (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:11 PM PDT Reuters - It would be feasible for China to launch a property tax in the near term because economic growth is sufficiently strong, a senior researcher with the Ministry of Finance said in remarks published on Friday.

Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT AP - The screams of the 4-year-olds inside the kindergarten could be heard out in the street. When people ran in to investigate, they found what one witness said was a scene "too horrible to imagine" — blood everywhere as a knife-wielding man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard Thursday in the second such school attack in China in two days.

China's Alarming Spate of School Knifings (Time.com) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 03:45 PM PDT Time.com - Violent crime is rare in the People's Republic because of a ban on guns but that has not stopped a recent string of assaults on children

Shanghai ready to welcome world to Expo (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 03:43 PM PDT AFP - Shanghai is set to open the World Expo Friday by setting the skies along its riverfront ablaze with fireworks, welcoming the huge showcase of culture and technology with a bang.

US congratulates China on lifting HIV visitors ban (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 03:09 PM PDT AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated China on Thursday for lifting travel restrictions for foreigners with HIV and AIDS.

U.S. piles more duties on China, Indonesia paper (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - The United States on Thursday slapped additional preliminary duties on hundreds of million of dollars of glossy magazine-quality paper from China, as U.S.-Sino trade disputes continued to pile up, two private sector sources said on Thursday.

China will undertake greater global role: Wen (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:57 AM PDT AFP - China pledged to take a greater role in global issues Thursday as it vowed to work with the European Union on nuclear non-proliferation, energy security and climate change.

Wen vows fairness for foreign, Chinese companies (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:14 AM PDT AP - China's premier promised foreign companies equal treatment with Chinese rivals Thursday in Beijing's most high-profile effort yet to quell complaints it is trying to squeeze foreign competitors out of its markets.

32 hurt in latest China school knife attack (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:15 AM PDT AFP - A jobless knife-wielding man injured 32 people, mostly young children, at a kindergarten in eastern China Thursday in the country's third school stabbing frenzy since last month.

Chinese man stabs children in kindergarten, 31 hurt (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:08 AM PDT Reuters - A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern China, state media reported on Thursday, the fourth such stabbing case in recent weeks.

Deadly school attacks in China (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:02 AM PDT AP - China has witnessed a series of assaults by knife-wielding attackers on schools in recent years. Many have been blamed on personal grudges or people with psychiatric problems:

Sarkozys see Great Wall, Ming Tombs on China visit (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:53 AM PDT AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, walked the centuries-old Great Wall and wandered the imperial Ming Tombs on a sightseeing stop Thursday during their visit to China.

China urges banks to broaden profit channels (Reuters) Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:37 PM PDT Reuters - Chinese banks must develop new revenue streams because they can no longer rely on plump net interest margins for their profits, the country's chief banking regulator said on Thursday.

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