Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Clinton: China to play role in Iran sanctions push (AP)
• China Valves posts 4th quarter profit, sales up (AP)
• China slaps Rio employees with up to 14 years jail (AP)
• No communication from 153 trapped in China mine (AP)
• China gives 'harsh' jail terms to Rio Tinto four (AFP)
• Chinese rescuers battle to save 153 trapped miners (AFP)
• Ericsson signs Chinese deals worth $1.8 bln (AP)
• China Sinopec's 2009 profit more than doubled (AP)
• China jails Australian Rio officer for 10 years (Reuters)
• Dissident's wife pleas for China to let him leave (AP)
• Rio Tinto staff jailed on bribery, trade secrets charges (AFP)
• China's deadliest reported mining disasters (AP)
• Rio Tinto China trial verdict due Monday (Reuters)
• Chinese rights lawyer's wife relieved he's alive (AFP)
• China economy to grow 12 percent in Q1 (Reuters)

Clinton: China to play role in Iran sanctions push (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:49 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that China agrees Iran must not become a nuclear weapons power and that the fellow Security Council member will play a role in forging sanctions against the Islamic republic at the United Nations.

China Valves posts 4th quarter profit, sales up (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:20 AM PDT AP - China Valves Technology Inc. swung to a profit in its fourth quarter as sales grew and the company produced more in its expanded Kaifeng facility.

China slaps Rio employees with up to 14 years jail (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:55 AM PDT AP - Unexpectedly harsh jail sentences of seven to 14 years for four Rio Tinto employees charged with taking bribes and stealing commercial secrets could augur tougher times for foreign companies and errant executives in China's unruly business world.

No communication from 153 trapped in China mine (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:04 AM PDT AP - Rescuers pumped water from a flooded mine in northern China where time is running out for 153 trapped workers as efforts stretched into a second day with no communication from those stuck deep underground.

China gives 'harsh' jail terms to Rio Tinto four (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:56 AM PDT AFP - China jailed an Australian executive with mining giant Rio Tinto for 10 years and handed stiff terms to three of his colleagues Monday for stealing trade secrets and pocketing millions in bribes.

Chinese rescuers battle to save 153 trapped miners (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:40 AM PDT AFP - Rescuers worked frantically Monday to try to find more than 150 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine being built in northern China, the latest disaster to hit the notoriously dangerous sector.

Ericsson signs Chinese deals worth $1.8 bln (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:08 AM PDT AP - Swedish wireless equipment maker L.M. Ericsson AB says it has signed deals worth $1.8 billion with Chinese operators China Mobile and China Unicom.

China Sinopec's 2009 profit more than doubled (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:36 AM PDT AP - Sinopec, Asia's biggest refiner by volume, said profit more than doubled in 2009 on lower crude oil costs and a revival in demand amid China's stimulus-fueled recovery.

China jails Australian Rio officer for 10 years (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:40 AM PDT Reuters - A Chinese court sentenced four Rio Tinto employees to 7 to 14 years in jail on Monday for taking bribes and stealing commercial secrets, a verdict the Australian government called harsh.

Dissident's wife pleas for China to let him leave (AP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:15 AM PDT AP - The wife of a dissident Chinese lawyer missing for more than a year said she was relieved to learn he is alive and appealed Monday to the government to allow him to leave China and join his family in the United States.

Rio Tinto staff jailed on bribery, trade secrets charges (AFP) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:27 AM PDT AFP - A Chinese court convicted four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto including an Australian national Monday on bribery and trade secrets charges, handing down jail terms ranging from seven to 14 years.

China's deadliest reported mining disasters (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 09:59 PM PDT AP - Some of China's deadliest reported mining disasters:

Rio Tinto China trial verdict due Monday (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PDT Reuters - A Chinese court will deliver a verdict on Monday against four Rio Tinto employees accused of accepting bribes and stealing commercial secrets in a case closely watched by foreign investors and the huge domestic steel industry.

Chinese rights lawyer's wife relieved he's alive (AFP) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:53 PM PDT AFP - The wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more than a year, voiced relief Sunday that he was alive after their children spoke to him by telephone.

China economy to grow 12 percent in Q1 (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:07 PM PDT Reuters - China's annual economic growth will reach 12 percent this quarter, a government researcher said in remarks published on Monday, as economists ratchet up growth forecasts following strong industrial output growth last month.

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