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Yahoo! News: World - China


Global rally cools after China leaves yuan flat (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:02 PM PDT

A yuan banknote is displayed next to a U.S. dollar banknote (back) for the photographer at a money changer inside the Taoyuan International Airport March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky Loh/FilesReuters - Global markets celebrated on Monday at the merest hint that China would let its currency appreciate, showing just how badly the Middle Kingdom is needed to drive a recovery in the sagging world economy.


China coal mine explosion traps 46 people (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:02 PM PDT

File photo shows a rescued miner being treated in northern China's Shanxi province following flooding in a coal mine. An explosion in a central China colliery has left dozens of miners trapped, state media reported, in the latest accident to hit the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.(AFP/File)AFP - An explosion in a central China colliery on Monday left 46 miners trapped, state media reported, in the latest accident to hit the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.


Australia & China sign deals worth over $8.8 billion (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Australia and China inked commercial deals worth more than $8.8 billion on Monday, largely in mining, in another sign that a new Australian mining tax has failed to dampen inward Chinese investment.

China exchange rate unchanged after yuan news (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:51 PM PDT

A Chinese clerk counts renminbi banknotes at a bank outlet in Hefei in central China's Anhui province, Sunday, June 20, 2010. China's central bank said Sunday it would maintain a stable exchange rate and didn't anticipate major changes in the value of the yuan, a day after saying it would manage the currency more flexibly. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - The official exchange rate for China's currency stood unchanged Monday morning in line with the central bank's warning the value of the yuan would not dramatically rise after its two-year peg to the dollar ended.


China keeps yuan unchanged despite flexibility vow (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:19 PM PDT

A shop worker holds a display of 100 yuan notes in Beijing on June 20, 2010. China has effectively pegged its currency at about 6.8 to the dollar since mid-2008 to help prop up exporters during the world financial crisis.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China kept the yuan exchange rate unchanged Monday, the central bank said, despite a weekend pledge by policymakers to make the currency more flexible.


At least 58 trapped after blast in China mine (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:35 PM PDT

AP - The government says at least 58 miners are trapped after an explosion ripped through a mine in the central Chinese province of Henan.

U.S. not ready to let China off hook (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 02:17 PM PDT

Reuters - China's signal that it will ease its currency's 23-month-old peg to the dollar will spare the country from U.S. lawmakers' wrath only if it opens the door to significant upward movement in the yuan.

Key US senator laments China's currency back-pedaling (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:13 AM PDT

A Chinese bank worker arranges US currency next to stacks of 100-yuan notes at a bank in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province. A senior US senator expressed disappointment Sunday with the Chinese central bank's clarification that any future adjustments of its currency's exchange rate would be gradual.(AFP/File)AFP - A senior US senator expressed disappointment Sunday with the Chinese central bank's clarification that any future adjustments of its currency's exchange rate would be gradual.


Schumer says Congress must up pressure on China (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 10:22 AM PDT

Reuters - Senator Charles Schumer said on Sunday China's gradual approach to lifting its currency peg amounted to "backing off" its promises, and urged strong legislation that might force further changes.

AP Exclusive: Uighurs flee China after riots (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo, paramilitary police officers search a car near the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province. Nearly a year after the worst communal riots in China's far west in more than a decade, stories of asylum seekers interviewed by The Associated Press are among the few accounts to emerge of how some Uighurs managed to get out amid a government crackdown. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - Police came looking for Vali days after bloody ethnic riots broke out in the far west last year, saying they had video footage of him among fleeing protesters and later shouting at an officer.


132 killed in massive flooding in southern China (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:19 AM PDT

In this Saturday June 19, 2010, photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, flood heavily inundate the roads and vernacular dwellings, at Shayuan village, in southeast China's Jiangxi  province.  Massive flooding in southern China has killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, and more storms were forecast, the government said Sunday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wu Zhigui) ** NO SALES **AP - Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that have killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said Sunday. With dozens missing and more storms forecast, the death toll was expected to rise.


China floods death toll reaches 132 (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:55 AM PDT

Chinese residents help remove a car as flood waters rise in Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi province. Floods and landslides triggered by the summer deluge have left 132 dead and a further 50 people missing and forced more than a million people living on river banks and in low-lying areas out of their homes, government agencies said.(AFP)AFP - The death toll from torrential downpours battering China for the past week has reached 132, state media reported Sunday, as more heavy rain was forecast.


Corrected: Yuan depegging long-term positive (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:47 AM PDT

Reuters - China's decision to end the yuan's nearly two-year peg against the dollar will boost its stock market heavyweights, as it heralds a long-term yuan appreciation based on robust productivity growth and aids an economic adjustment toward less reliance on exports.

Factbox: Forecasts for yuan after China drops dollar peg (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:40 AM PDT

Reuters - Following are forecasts by bankers and strategists on the level of expected yuan appreciation after China ditched its peg to the U.S. dollar.

Toyota parts plant back at work after China strike (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 11:34 PM PDT

Employees walk around the Toyoda Gosei plant in Tianjin during a strike June 18, 2010. REUTERS/Vincent DuReuters - Workers at a plastics parts supplier for Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) in China resumed work on Sunday, ending a three-day strike over pay and benefits, state media said.


China's Xi hopes to strengthen Australia ties (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 10:31 PM PDT

Victorian Premier John Brumby (L) shakes hands with China's Vice President Xi Jinping at Australian Football League (AFL) house in Melbourne. Xi said he hoped his stay in Australia, the first high-level visit since the jailing in Shanghai of a Rio Tinto mining executive, would lead to a stronger bond with the key trade partner.(AFP/POOL/David Crosling)AFP - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping said he hoped his stay in Australia, the first high-level visit since the jailing in Shanghai of a Rio Tinto mining executive, would lead to a stronger bond with the key trade partner.


Lessons from failed Cold War spy mission in China (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 09:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated black-and-white file photo provided by then-UN Secretary General  Dag Hammarskjold, Richard J. Fecteau of Lynn, Mass.,  is weighed and measured by a Chinese nurse, according to information received by his mother  January 21, 1955, with this snapshot.  (AP Photo, File)AP - Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history, a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole two decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the lives of their two pilots.


Anger simmers in China's 'workshop of the world' (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 08:29 PM PDT

Chinese workers stand outside the Ichikoh Valeo factory, a Japanese-owned plant that makes head lamps and fog lights for the auto industry, in Foshan, southern China's Guangdong province. Simmering anger among factory workers in the province suggests a continuation of labour troubles that have some warning China's days providing the world with cheap goods may be numbered.(AFP)AFP - For two years, Li has toiled at an auto parts plant affiliated with Honda Motor, earning meagre pay and breathing workshop fumes that he and his fellow workers fear are affecting their health.


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