Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Is Tainted Milk to Blame for China's Infant Puberty Cases? (Time.com)
• New rain piles on misery for China flood survivors (AP)
• Rains bring new misery to China mudslide town (AFP)
• Shanghai rankings rattle European universities (AFP)
• Group: Tibetan businessman gets life in prison (AP)
• Hidden trillions widen China's wealth gap: study (Reuters)
• China says foreign firms get fair anti-trust shake (AFP)
• China's army condemns South Korean-US sea drills (AP)
• China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region (Reuters)
• China offers to help N.Korea crack down on crime (AFP)
• China starts biggest relocation since 3 Gorges (AP)
• China consumer confidence rises in second quarter (Reuters)
• China's golden skating pair to host wedding on ice (AFP)
• China CITIC Bank in 3.8-bln-dollar rights issue (AFP)
• China admits only foreigners hit by anti-trust law (AP)
• American boy plans NKorea trip to pitch peace idea (AP)

Is Tainted Milk to Blame for China's Infant Puberty Cases? (Time.com) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT Time.com - Two years after tainted milk powder killed six infants, China is again roiled by allegations of health hazards in infant formula. Is tainted milk to blame for early puberty signs?

New rain piles on misery for China flood survivors (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:43 AM PDT AP - Rain caused new landslides and swelled rivers Thursday in the remote northwestern China region where hundreds died in massive slides triggered by weekend flooding.

Rains bring new misery to China mudslide town (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:15 AM PDT AFP - Heavy rains on Thursday compounded the misery of a Chinese town devastated by mudslides that have killed 1,144 people, with new floods hampering relief efforts and the stench of death pervasive.

Shanghai rankings rattle European universities (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:03 AM PDT AFP - Research fraud and limited academic freedom make China an unlikely arbiter for international university excellence, but a Shanghai school's rankings are making Europe's education ministers sweat.

Group: Tibetan businessman gets life in prison (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:36 AM PDT AP - One of Tibet's richest businessmen has been sentenced to life in prison for helping exile groups, a human rights organization said Thursday, the latest case in a surprising crackdown on well-known Tibetans once praised by Chinese authorities.

Hidden trillions widen China's wealth gap: study (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:42 AM PDT Reuters - China's richest citizens are even wealthier than the statistics suggest, and may hold as much as 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) of hidden assets, according to a Credit Suisse-sponsored study by a top economic think-tank.

China says foreign firms get fair anti-trust shake (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:59 AM PDT AFP - China said Thursday that overseas companies were treated fairly under its anti-trust law, dismissing complaints that the country is skewing its business playing field against foreigners.

China's army condemns South Korean-US sea drills (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:48 AM PDT AP - China's military on Thursday condemned a second round of U.S.-South Korean naval drills planned in the Yellow Sea in the coming weeks, vowing it would respond in kind.

China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 01:04 AM PDT Reuters - China's People Liberation Army demanded a tough response to U.S. plans to send an aircraft carrier to naval exercises near its coast, saying that "respect" was at stake.

China offers to help N.Korea crack down on crime (AFP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:52 AM PDT AFP - China said Thursday it had offered to help North Korea tackle cross-border crime -- two months after North Korean soldiers killed three suspected Chinese smugglers, raising tensions between the allies.

China starts biggest relocation since 3 Gorges (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:10 AM PDT AP - China has launched its biggest relocation program since the Three Gorges Dam, with 330,000 residents set to be moved to new homes to make way for a water project that will serve thirsty Beijing.

China consumer confidence rises in second quarter (Reuters) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 10:34 PM PDT Reuters - China's consumer confidence index rose in the April-June period for the fifth quarter in a row, boosted by a growing willingness in the countryside to spend as incomes rise, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.

China's golden skating pair to host wedding on ice (AFP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 10:28 PM PDT AFP - China's golden Olympic figure skating pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo fell in love on the ice. Next month, they will throw a long-delayed wedding party on ice, with several of the sport's biggest stars.

China CITIC Bank in 3.8-bln-dollar rights issue (AFP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 10:19 PM PDT AFP - China CITIC Bank said it plans to raise up to 3.84 billion US dollars in a rights offer in Shanghai and Hong Kong in a bid to heed calls from China for lenders to boost their defences against bad loans.

China admits only foreigners hit by anti-trust law (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 09:22 PM PDT AP - China acknowledged Thursday that only foreign companies have been forced to scrap or change business deals under its two-year-old anti-monopoly law but rejected complaints the measure is discriminatory.

American boy plans NKorea trip to pitch peace idea (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:15 PM PDT AP - A 13-year-old American plans to visit North Korea this week and perhaps meet leader Kim Jong Il to pitch his idea for a "children's peace forest" in the demilitarized zone.

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