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U.S. sees China moving on currency despite rhetoric (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:36 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference at the Newseum in Washington, February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner voiced optimism on Thursday that China would begin letting its currency appreciate, despite Beijing's dismissal of U.S. complaints that Chinese policies put American exports at a disadvantage.

White House plays down tensions with China (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:07 AM PST

Reuters - The White House sought to play down reports of rising tensions between the United States and China on Thursday, saying the two countries would work together on issues of mutual concern but sometimes disagree.

Geithner says China likely to move on yuan (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:35 AM PST

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday said he shared U.S. lawmakers' concern about China's currency value, but was optimistic Beijing would begin letting the currency appreciate.

Google, US intel to team up to fight cyberattacks: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:12 AM PST

A public interest group on Thursday demanded that the US National Security Agency (NSA) reveal details of a reported alliance with Internet powerhouse Google to ward off cyberattacks.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US Internet giant Google is enlisting the help of the top US electronic surveillance organization to ward off cyberattacks, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Beijing, Washington spar on trade as row rolls on (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:43 AM PST

Chinese and United States flags at the International Trade Center in Washington, DC. China has hit back at Washington after President Barack Obama vowed to get tougher with the Asian giant on trade and currency, stoking tensions already high over Taiwan and Tibet.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - China hit back at the United States on Thursday after President Barack Obama vowed to get tougher with the Asian giant on trade and currency, stoking tensions already high over Taiwan and Tibet.

Report: China sentences 25 kidnappers to death (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 07:19 AM PST

AP - Chinese state media say 25 people have been sentenced to death for their roles in nine kidnapping cases.

China hauls EU to WTO in shoe tariff dispute (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:31 AM PST

AP - China launched an unfair trade case against the European Union on Thursday, accusing the 27-nation bloc of imposing illegal duties on Chinese shoes, the World Trade Organization said.

China bans reporting on new milk scandal: watchdog (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:15 AM PST

A young child drinks milk from a bottle outside his home in a hutong in Beijing. Chinese officials have banned independent reporting on the latest toxic food scandal involving melamine, a chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008, a press watchdog has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese officials have banned independent reporting on the latest toxic food scandal involving melamine, a chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008, a press watchdog said on Thursday.

Discussing Iran sanctions hinders diplomacy: China (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:55 AM PST

Reuters - Discussions amongst world powers over imposing possible sanctions on Iran will complicate the situation and might make it harder to find a diplomatic solution, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Thursday.

China says Swiss asylum for Uighurs will harm ties (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:54 AM PST

Swiss deputy director of the federal office of justice, Rudolf Wyss, left, looks on as federal councilor and justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf speaks at a press conference concerning the admittance of two Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees to Switzerland, in Bern, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. The Swiss government has given final approval for two Chinese Guantanamo inmates to be resettled in northwestern Switzerland. Beijing has said in the past that it wants the two ethnic minority Uighurs sent back to China, alleging they are terrorists. (AP Photo/Keystone, Marcel Bieri)AP - China said Thursday that a Swiss government decision to approve the resettlement of two Chinese inmates at the Guantanamo Bay detention center would harm relations between the countries.

Tainted milk shows China's food safety challenges (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:49 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, workers check for industrial chemical melamine in milk products in a lab of Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China's largest dairy producers, in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia region. Three dairy plant managers and one milk powder dealer in central China have been arrested for allegedly selling milk products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, shortly after the government launched a 10-day crackdown, state media reported Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - The resurfacing of tainted milk products in China highlights the challenges of policing the food supply in a country where close ties between local authorities and companies hamper regulation while producers are undertrained, experts said Thursday.

2 gangsters sentenced to death in China (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 01:41 AM PST

AP - Two mob bosses were sentenced to death Thursday for gambling, bribery and assault in the latest series of gang prosecutions in southwestern China, state media reported.

China fund plans big investment in UK firm: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

The London skyline looking eastwards from the city's financial centre. China's sovereign wealth fund plans to invest almost a billion dollars in a British private equity firm, state press reported Thursday, as it steps up its foray into foreign markets.(AFP/File/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - China's sovereign wealth fund plans to invest almost a billion dollars in a British private equity firm, state press reported Thursday, as it steps up its foray into foreign markets.

China sentences two more to death in mafia trials (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:36 PM PST

A crowd gathers to watch as a police car brings Wen Qiang, former director of the justice department of Chongqing to court in the city on February 2, 2010. A Chinese court sentenced two convicted mafia figures to death on Thursday in the latest verdicts handed down in a series of trials exposing rapacious mobsters and official collusion.(AFP)AFP - A Chinese court sentenced two convicted mafia figures to death on Thursday in the latest verdicts handed down in a series of trials exposing rapacious mobsters and official collusion.

1 year on, China stays silent on missing lawyer (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 08:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 file photo, Gao Zhisheng gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. The Chinese human rights lawyer missing for almost a year has been judged by legal authorities and 'is where he should be,' a Foreign Ministry official said in China's first public comment on the case. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - One of China's most daring activist lawyers disappeared a year ago Thursday, and the government that so closely monitored him has not explained where he is, infuriating even those used to Beijing's indifference to outside pressure on human rights.

China strives for first 'green' Expo (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:37 PM PST

Workers are seen in front of the Japanese pavilion at the site of the World expo 2010 in Shanghai. China, the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases, aims to hold the first AFP - China, the world's number one emitter of greenhouse gases, aims to hold the first "green" World Expo in Shanghai, as the sprawling metropolis tries to shed its polluted past and become eco-friendly.

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