Yahoo! News: World - China

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• APNewsBreak: China to award prize to rival Nobel (AP)
• China media say 13 killed in coal mine explosion (AP)
• Thirteen dead in China mine explosion: state media (AFP)
• Economic carrot helps China in Nobel boycott drive (Reuters)
• Chinese bishops open meeting amid tense Vatican ties (AFP)
• Alstom, Bombardier sign rail agreements with China (AFP)
• China, Nobel committee at odds over award boycott (Reuters)
• China rate rise talk builds as loans and inflation rise (Reuters)
• China says does not want to "replace" U.S. as world power (Reuters)
• China says hopes WikiLeaks will not affect U.S. ties (Reuters)
• China says it hopes leaks do not hurt US ties (AP)
• China to choose Catholic heads; Vatican ties tense (AP)
• China interest rate hike may be imminent: state media (AFP)
• Allegedly drunk Chinese official kills 5 with car (AP)
• China's Bright Food close to GNC deal: source (Reuters)

APNewsBreak: China to award prize to rival Nobel (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:33 PM PST AP - Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday — the day before the Nobel Committee honors an imprisoned Chinese dissident in a move that has enraged Beijing.

China media say 13 killed in coal mine explosion (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 04:43 PM PST AP - An explosion in a coal mine in central China killed 13 miners who were working despite an order to halt production at the site, state media reported Wednesday in the latest tragedy to strike the country's accident-ridden mining industry.

Thirteen dead in China mine explosion: state media (AFP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:22 AM PST AFP - A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China on Tuesday killed 13 people, state media said, in the latest accident to hit the nation's mining industry.

Economic carrot helps China in Nobel boycott drive (Reuters) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:58 AM PST Reuters - Most of the 18 states joining China in shunning Friday's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo have strong commercial interests at stake or share its hostility to Western human rights pressure.

Chinese bishops open meeting amid tense Vatican ties (AFP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:35 AM PST AFP - Chinese bishops opened a meeting on Tuesday to elect top leaders that could further inflame tensions with the Vatican following the controversial ordination of a bishop by the state-backed church.

Alstom, Bombardier sign rail agreements with China (AFP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:44 AM PST AFP - Alstom and Bombardier on Tuesday signed agreements with China's railways ministry to speed up development of rail transport in the vast country and also in overseas markets, the companies said.

China, Nobel committee at odds over award boycott (Reuters) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:44 AM PST Reuters - China said on Tuesday the "vast majority" of nations would boycott this week's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, but the Norwegian award committee said two-thirds of those invited would attend.

China rate rise talk builds as loans and inflation rise (Reuters) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 05:07 AM PST Reuters - China is likely to raise interest rates in the coming days in a demonstration of the government's resolve to tame inflation, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.

China says does not want to "replace" U.S. as world power (Reuters) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 02:06 AM PST Reuters - China does not want to "replace" the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China's rise, the country's top diplomat wrote in an essay.

China says hopes WikiLeaks will not affect U.S. ties (Reuters) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 01:45 AM PST Reuters - China said on Tuesday that it hoped revelations in U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks would not affect ties with Washington.

China says it hopes leaks do not hurt US ties (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:34 AM PST AP - China says it hopes U.S. diplomatic leaks painting Beijing's foreign policy as abrasive and its officials as difficult will not hurt relations with Washington.

China to choose Catholic heads; Vatican ties tense (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:17 AM PST AP - China's bishops opened a meeting Tuesday to choose leaders of the government-backed Catholic church amid tensions with the Vatican after it denounced the recent ordination of a bishop who did not have the pope's approval.

China interest rate hike may be imminent: state media (AFP) Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST AFP - China may raise interest rates as early as the end of this week after Beijing pledged to tighten its monetary policy in 2011 to fight inflation, state media reported Tuesday.

Allegedly drunk Chinese official kills 5 with car (AP) Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:28 PM PST AP - A Chinese government official suspected of being drunk killed five teenagers while driving over the weekend, the latest deadly hit-and-run case involving a government official.

China's Bright Food close to GNC deal: source (Reuters) Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:05 PM PST Reuters - China's Bright Food Group Co is near a deal to buy U.S. vitamin retailer GNC Holdings Inc, giving the well-known foreign brand a potential entry to China to cater to the country's growing middle class.

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