Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Docs: Drywall supplier agreed not to discuss risks (AP)
• Honda says Chinese labor dispute has been settled (AP)
• Exiles, Hong Kongers break silence on Tiananmen (AP)
• US urges China to free activists on Tiananmen anniversary (AFP)
• Honda reaches pact with China parts plant workers (Reuters)
• Memoir gives new insight in China's 1989 crackdown (AP)
• China UnionPay hits back at Visa in cards row (AFP)
• China ex-premier's memoirs defend 1989 bloodshed (Reuters)
• 11 trapped in China coal mine flood (AFP)
• China uses drones to spot opium fields (AP)
• Death toll from China landslides rises to 44 (AFP)
• Taiwan urges China to learn Tianamen lesson (AFP)
• Taiwan president faces hurdles in key China deal (AP)

Docs: Drywall supplier agreed not to discuss risks (AP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:09 PM PDT AP - A South Florida construction supplier that purchased faulty Chinese drywall made an agreement with the manufacturer not to make any statements regarding the plasterboard's possible smell or health risks, according to court documents released in a class action suit Friday.

Honda says Chinese labor dispute has been settled (AP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 02:53 PM PDT AP - Honda Motor Co. said a labor dispute at a parts plant that crippled the automaker's production in China was resolved on Friday.

Exiles, Hong Kongers break silence on Tiananmen (AP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 09:55 AM PDT AP - Exiled student leaders, Hong Kong citizens and Taiwan's president on Friday challenged China's silence on the 21st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with tributes outside the mainland — and on the Internet.

US urges China to free activists on Tiananmen anniversary (AFP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 09:42 AM PDT AFP - The United States on Friday urged China to free political activists who have been imprisoned since the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square exactly 21 years ago.

Honda reaches pact with China parts plant workers (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 08:44 AM PDT Reuters - Honda Motor (7267.T) said on Friday it settled a labor dispute at a Chinese car parts plant after almost three weeks of disruption, allowing it to build cars again in the world's fastest-growing market.

Memoir gives new insight in China's 1989 crackdown (AP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT AP - A memoir purportedly written by China's hardline premier at the time of the Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown in 1989 defends the military suppression, saying soldiers acted in self-defense when they fired on citizens.

China UnionPay hits back at Visa in cards row (AFP) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:32 AM PDT AFP - Chinese card issuer UnionPay hit out at Visa on Friday after the US giant told banks to stop using the Chinese firm's system to process overseas transactions on cards bearing both firms' logos.

China ex-premier's memoirs defend 1989 bloodshed (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jun 2010 02:12 AM PDT Reuters - China's revered reformist leader Deng Xiaoping said the government had to "spill some blood" to quell student-led protests in 1989, according to newly published memoirs of the watershed events by former premier Li Peng.

11 trapped in China coal mine flood (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:33 PM PDT AFP - Rescuers were striving Friday to save 11 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China, the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry, an official and state media said.

China uses drones to spot opium fields (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:17 PM PDT AP - China has begun using unmanned aircraft to track down illegal poppy crops being grown in the suburbs around its capital as part of a monthlong anti-drug campaign, police said Friday.

Death toll from China landslides rises to 44 (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:52 PM PDT AFP - The death toll from flooding and landslides in southern China has risen to 44, with eight people still listed as missing, state media reported Friday.

Taiwan urges China to learn Tianamen lesson (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:46 PM PDT AFP - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou urged China on Friday to learn from the lessons of Tiananmen Square, 21 years after the bloody crackdown on student protests, and to be more tolerant of dissidents.

Taiwan president faces hurdles in key China deal (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:26 PM PDT AP - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is facing domestic and Chinese hurdles in his pursuit of a key China trade pact that could bring about the closest relations between the longtime rivals since their split amid civil war in 1949.

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