Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's (AP)
• Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media (AFP)
• China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead (AFP)
• Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP)
• Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack (Reuters)
• Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China (AP)

China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's (AP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:39 AM PDT AP - China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.

Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media (AFP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 05:28 AM PDT AFP - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.

China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead (AFP) Posted: 31 Jul 2010 02:05 AM PDT AFP - Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.

Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:08 PM PDT AP - Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades.

Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:38 PM PDT Reuters - A blast rocked a local tax office in central China, killing at least four people and injuring 19, in what police say appeared to be a deliberate attack, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China (AP) Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:33 PM PDT AP - An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.

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