Yahoo! News: World - China

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• U.S., China resume human rights talks (Reuters)
• Pest munches up China fields after GM crop sprays halt (Reuters)
• US, China begin human rights talks (AP)
• Cut the political jargon, urges China's vice president (AFP)
• China police chief vows to strike at school attackers (AFP)
• Neighbors thought China attacker was a good man (AP)
• Ford, Mazda aim to break up 3-way China JV: sources (Reuters)
• China Valves net income up 123 pct in 1st quarter (AP)
• China Mobile expresses interest in iPad (AFP)
• Chinese wrongly jailed for 11 years given $96,000 (AP)
• Chinese police arrested in 'back from dead' case (AFP)
• China vice president calls for reducing jargon use (AP)
• China school killer erupted after lease row (Reuters)

U.S., China resume human rights talks (Reuters) Posted: 13 May 2010 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - The United States and China resumed a formal dialogue on human rights on Thursday after a two-year hiatus in which the countries have worked to keep ties stable amid disputes over Tibet, Taiwan, Internet freedom and the value of the yuan currency.

Pest munches up China fields after GM crop sprays halt (Reuters) Posted: 13 May 2010 02:34 PM PDT Reuters - A once minor pest has ravaged fruit orchards and cotton fields in China after farmers stopped spraying insecticide in crops of a genetically-modified type of cotton resistant to bollworms, experts said.

US, China begin human rights talks (AP) Posted: 13 May 2010 02:23 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration faces a delicate balancing act in human rights talks with China that began Thursday: It looks to pressure China to improve its treatment of its citizens while not angering a country that is crucial to U.S. international interests.

Cut the political jargon, urges China's vice president (AFP) Posted: 13 May 2010 10:47 AM PDT AFP - The "three represents" could some day be lumped in with "the four olds" if China's jargon-obsessed Communist Party heeds a call from the top for clearer communication.

China police chief vows to strike at school attackers (AFP) Posted: 13 May 2010 09:52 AM PDT AFP - China's top policeman has vowed to "severely strike" at anyone caught attacking schools, in an angry diatribe following a kindergarten bloodbath -- the fifth such assault in just a few weeks.

Neighbors thought China attacker was a good man (AP) Posted: 13 May 2010 09:37 AM PDT AP - Neighbors in this lush but poor farm village say Wu Jianming seemed like a good, quiet man. They struggle now to understand how he could fly into a rage over unpaid rent, slashing and killing seven preschoolers and two adults with a cleaver.

Ford, Mazda aim to break up 3-way China JV: sources (Reuters) Posted: 13 May 2010 04:54 AM PDT Reuters - Ford Motor and its China venture partners, Mazda Motor Corp and Chongqing Changan Automobile Co, are seeking Chinese government approval to end their three-way tie up, two sources said on Thursday.

China Valves net income up 123 pct in 1st quarter (AP) Posted: 13 May 2010 04:49 AM PDT AP - China Valves Technology Inc. said profit more than doubled in the first quarter as it sold more of its large metal valves to power plants.

China Mobile expresses interest in iPad (AFP) Posted: 13 May 2010 03:59 AM PDT AFP - China Mobile, the world's biggest cell phone operator, said Thursday it was interested in selling the iPad, and that talks with Apple over the sale of iPhones were still ongoing.

Chinese wrongly jailed for 11 years given $96,000 (AP) Posted: 13 May 2010 12:17 AM PDT AP - A Chinese man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who wasn't even dead has been given $96,000 in government compensation, state media reported Thursday.

Chinese police arrested in 'back from dead' case (AFP) Posted: 12 May 2010 10:52 PM PDT AFP - Chinese authorities have arrested two policemen suspected of torturing a confession out of a man wrongly convicted of murder 11 years ago, state press reported Thursday.

China vice president calls for reducing jargon use (AP) Posted: 12 May 2010 10:38 PM PDT AP - China's ruling Communist Party is being told to cut back on the use of political jargon in the name of clearer communication.

China school killer erupted after lease row (Reuters) Posted: 12 May 2010 09:20 PM PDT Reuters - A Chinese man who hacked to death seven young children and two adults in the latest in a series of deadly assaults on schools lashed out after an argument over a kindergarten lease, neighbors and state media said.

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