Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China takes hands-off approach to labor strikes (AP)
• Biggest obstacle for China's gays: Social pressure for marriage (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Chinese nationalists increasingly strident (AP)
• Sino-Canadian ties of 'growing strategic importance:' Hu (AFP)
• China sets strong yuan rate ahead of G20 (AFP)
• Swollen river threatens major city in central China (AFP)
• China's currency rises to new high ahead of G-20 (AP)
• Drug cases shoot up 16 percent last year in China (AP)
• Big algae bloom expanding off China's east coast (AP)
• Death toll in China flooding climbs to 377 (AP)
• Tibet environmentalist jailed for 15 years: lawyer (AFP)
• China Mofcom plays down yuan impact on exports (Reuters)
• China's yuan move too soon to judge: Obama (AFP)

China takes hands-off approach to labor strikes (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:29 PM PDT AP - When workers at a Honda transmission plant in China went on strike for higher wages last month, they touched off a domino effect of high-profile labor disputes.

Biggest obstacle for China's gays: Social pressure for marriage (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 01:10 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - SHANGHAI — They had what they thought was the perfect solution, but it turned out that the men are just too picky.

Chinese nationalists increasingly strident (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 09:12 AM PDT AP - Upcoming joint U.S.-South Korean naval drills have sparked an unexpected outcry from Chinese nationalists, whose fiery rhetoric has been stoked by their country's rising economic strength and global clout.

Sino-Canadian ties of 'growing strategic importance:' Hu (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 08:02 AM PDT AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday called for a new start and a firming of Sino-Canadian ties, despite new irritants, during a state visit to Canada ahead of G8 and G20 summits in the Toronto area.

China sets strong yuan rate ahead of G20 (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 06:56 AM PDT AFP - China's central bank set the strongest yuan exchange rate in years on Friday, as international pressure builds for a stronger currency ahead of the weekend Group of 20 summit in Canada.

Swollen river threatens major city in central China (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 05:16 AM PDT AFP - Chinese rescue teams scrambled to shore up flood defences Friday as a swollen river threatened a major city, after heavy rains across the nation's south and centre left more than 230 people dead.

China's currency rises to new high ahead of G-20 (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 04:07 AM PDT AP - China's currency surged Friday to its highest level yet, with the central bank setting the daily official level at 6.7896 yuan to the dollar, acting on a pledge to allow greater flexibility in the exchange rate ahead of a weekend G-20 summit.

Drug cases shoot up 16 percent last year in China (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 03:17 AM PDT AP - China says drug cases shot up 16 percent last year from 2008 with courts convicting more than 56,000 people.

Big algae bloom expanding off China's east coast (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:24 AM PDT AP - A huge bright green algae bloom is blanketing the sea off China's east coast and wind is driving it closer to land, an official said Friday.

Death toll in China flooding climbs to 377 (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:05 AM PDT AP - The death toll from storms that have pounded southern China for more than a week has climbed to 377, the government said Friday.

Tibet environmentalist jailed for 15 years: lawyer (AFP) Posted: 24 Jun 2010 11:12 PM PDT AFP - A prominent Tibetan environmentalist who said he was "brutally tortured" in custody has been jailed for 15 years on tomb-robbing charges that were dropped years ago, his lawyer said Friday.

China Mofcom plays down yuan impact on exports (Reuters) Posted: 24 Jun 2010 08:47 PM PDT Reuters - Chinese exporters on balance will benefit more than they will suffer from the reintroduction of greater flexibility in the yuan, Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Yaoping said on Friday.

China's yuan move too soon to judge: Obama (AFP) Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:41 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama has said it is too premature to determine the impact of China's limited currency reform although he viewed the move as "positive."

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