Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China inflation to peak in summer: economist (Reuters)
• 17 miners killed in central China mine blast (AP)
• New China rules rule out torture in confessions (Reuters)
• China coal mine explosion kills 17 workers (AFP)
• China coal mine blast kills 17 near Chenzhou: report (Reuters)
• Police free forced labourers at China brick kiln (AFP)
• Man executed for China kindergarten stabbing spree (AFP)
• China executes man who attacked 29 children (AP)
• China's Wen urges Koreas to avoid clashes (AFP)
• Chinese man executed for school stabbing: report (Reuters)

China inflation to peak in summer: economist (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2010 09:11 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese inflation will peak this summer, a respected economist said, as a top planning official pinpointed decreased land supply and the rising cost of agricultural labor as driving strong prices of Chinese agricultural commodities.

17 miners killed in central China mine blast (AP) Posted: 30 May 2010 05:26 AM PDT AP - Seventeen miners were killed by a dynamite explosion at a coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday.

New China rules rule out torture in confessions (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2010 04:58 AM PDT Reuters - Embarrassed by a murder victim who turned up a decade after his "killer" was convicted, China's security and judicial authorities issued rules on Sunday to make it harder to convict suspects based on confessions secured under duress.

China coal mine explosion kills 17 workers (AFP) Posted: 30 May 2010 01:45 AM PDT AFP - An explosion at a colliery in central China has killed 17 workers, a provincial official said Sunday, in the latest deadly accident to hit the nation's notoriously dangerous mining industry.

China coal mine blast kills 17 near Chenzhou: report (Reuters) Posted: 29 May 2010 11:31 PM PDT Reuters - A coal mine accident killed 17 miners and injured one in a mining and metals-intensive region in southern China's Hunan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the provincial work safety watchdog.

Police free forced labourers at China brick kiln (AFP) Posted: 29 May 2010 11:24 PM PDT AFP - Police have rescued 34 people forced to work at a brick kiln in northern China, where they were given electric shocks if they protested, local media reported, in the country's latest slavery scandal.

Man executed for China kindergarten stabbing spree (AFP) Posted: 29 May 2010 11:14 PM PDT AFP - A man was executed Sunday for carrying out a bloody assault on 32 people, mostly small children, at a kindergarten in eastern China, one of a spate of attacks on schools that shocked the nation.

China executes man who attacked 29 children (AP) Posted: 29 May 2010 11:05 PM PDT AP - Chinese authorities on Sunday executed a man convicted of slashing 29 children and three teachers with a knife in one of a series of recent assaults on schools and kindergartens, a state news agency reported.

China's Wen urges Koreas to avoid clashes (AFP) Posted: 29 May 2010 07:59 PM PDT AFP - China's Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday there is an "urgent" need to avoid clashes and ease tensions following the sinking of a South Korean warship.

Chinese man executed for school stabbing: report (Reuters) Posted: 29 May 2010 07:43 PM PDT Reuters - A Chinese man was executed on Sunday morning for stabbing 29 children and three teachers in eastern China, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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