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Yahoo! News: World - China

China trade surplus soars in May (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:46 PM PDT

A garment worker looks on from her work station in a factory in Pinghu, close to Shanghai. China's trade surplus soared in May from the previous month on strong demand for Chinese-made clothes and electronics, which analysts say could increase pressure on Beijing to let its currency strengthen.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - China's trade surplus soared in May from the previous month on strong demand for Chinese-made clothes and electronics, which analysts say could increase pressure on Beijing to let its currency strengthen.

China trade surges in positive sign for growth (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:45 PM PDT

AP - China's imports and exports both surged by nearly 50 percent in May over a year earlier in a positive sign for growth in the third-largest economy.

US military officer says China needs to step up (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:17 PM PDT

AP - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Wednesday he is disappointed by the international community's "tepid" response to North Korea's attack on a South Korean warship and called on China to step up and do more.

Senators vow action on China currency bill (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:17 PM PDT

Reuters - Congressional anger over China's currency and trade practices boiled over on Wednesday as senators vowed to pass legislation soon and lashed out at President Barack Obama's administration for failing to get tough with Beijing.

Correction: China Finance Online earnings (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:10 PM PDT

AP - In a story June 4 about the first-quarter financial results of China Finance Online Co., The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a Rodman & Renshaw analyst. The correct spelling is Lewis Fan, not Fang.

Senator accuses China of "honey laundering" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:00 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S.-Sino trade relations got even stickier on Wednesday after a senator accused China of "honey laundering" -- mislabeling its honey to avoid U.S. anti-dumping duties.

China watchdog OKs giant Agricultural Bank IPO (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:55 AM PDT

AP - China's stock regulator has approved Agricultural Bank of China's plans for an initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong worth well over $20 billion that may be the world's biggest ever, despite current market doldrums.

Dozens hurt in China labour unrest (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:02 AM PDT

Some 2,000 workers clash with police as they stage a strike outside the Taiwan-funded KOK Machinery rubber factory in Kunshan, east China's Jiangsu province on June 7. Dozens of striking employees have been hurt in clashes with police in China and Honda was hit by a third work stoppage Wednesday, in the latest labour unrest to disrupt the AFP - Dozens of striking employees have been hurt in clashes with police in China and Honda was hit by a third work stoppage Wednesday, in the latest labour unrest to disrupt the "workshop of the world".

Honda hit by strike at 2nd parts factory in China (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 04:26 AM PDT

An uniformed police officer, light blue in center, negotiates with a group of migrant workers after they tried to protest against unpaid salary by marching with a banner on a main street in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. China outlaws unauthorized labor organizing, limiting such activities to the government-affiliated trade unions but in recent years authorities increasingly appear to be tolerating sporadic, peaceful protests by aggrieved workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Workers at a second auto parts factory affiliated with Honda Motor Co. walked off the job Wednesday as a strike dragged on at the other facility, forcing the company to halt production at two of its Chinese car assembly plants.

Labor strife spreads to 3rd Honda supplier in China (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 04:24 AM PDT

A Honda sign is seen outside the Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co. Ltd. plant in Foshan, southern Chinese Guangdong province, June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - A third strike in four weeks hit Honda Motor Co's (7267.T) Chinese suppliers on Wednesday, fuelling concerns that unrest among workers in the world's manufacturing hub is spreading.

China court upholds 5-year sentence for activist (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 03:51 AM PDT

Protesters raise a picture of Chinese dissident Tan Zuoren during a protest outside the Chinese government's liaison office in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 9, 2010. A Chinese court Wednesday upheld Tan's five-year sentence for subversion passed down after he investigated the deaths of children crushed in their schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. About 30 human rights activists protested the court's decision Wednesday. The Chinese words read ' Return the freedom to Tan Zuoren. ' (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - A court upheld a Chinese dissident's five-year sentence for subversion Wednesday after he investigated the deaths of children crushed in their schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

China approves mega IPO of Agricultural Bank (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 02:49 AM PDT

File photo shows a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Xining in northwest China's Qinghai province. China's Agricultural Bank on Wednesday received the long awaited green light from securities regulators to launch what could become the world's biggest initial public offering.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's Agricultural Bank on Wednesday received the long awaited green light from securities regulators to launch what could become the world's biggest initial public offering.

Court officials hit with acid in China (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:51 AM PDT

AP - A couple attacked two judges and four court officers with sulphuric acid as they were attempting to seize their home in southern China over a loan dispute, state media reported Wednesday.

50 hurt as China factory workers, security clash (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:47 AM PDT

Students protest with effigies of workers who have committed suicide at Foxconn in China during the companies' AGM in Hong Kong. Dozens of striking workers have been hurt in clashes with police in China in the latest unrest to rock the AFP - About 50 workers at a Taiwan-funded factory striking for better pay and working conditions were injured in clashes with security forces earlier this week in eastern China, state media said Wednesday.

China confirms jail term for quake activist: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:22 AM PDT

A mother mourns as her child, crushed when a school building collapsed during the massive Sichuan earthquake, is carried away by soldiers. A Chinese appeal court has upheld a five-year jail term handed to an activist who was probing whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in the huge earth tremor, his lawyer has said.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - A Chinese appeal court on Wednesday upheld a five-year jail term handed to an activist who was probing whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in a massive 2008 quake, his lawyer said.

China farmer uses cannon to fight eviction (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 11:55 PM PDT

Chinese farmer Yang Youde fires his homemade cannon on his farm on the outskirts of Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province. Yang's improvised cannons, which are made out of a wheelbarrow, pipes and fire rockets, are used to defend his fields against property developers who want his land.(AFP)AFP - A farmer in central China has turned his home into a fort equipped with a homemade cannon and fireworks to fight off government eviction in an ongoing land dispute, state media said Wednesday.

Six China judges hurt in acid attack (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:19 PM PDT

Photo illustration shows a judge in a court in China listening to a case. Six judges hearing a loan dispute case in southern China were injured, two of them seriously, when the defendants doused them with sulphuric acid, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - Six judges hearing a loan dispute case in southern China were injured, two of them seriously, when the defendants doused them with sulphuric acid, state media said Wednesday.

Rising China wages may end cheap labour: experts (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:13 PM PDT

Workers assemble cars at an auto plant in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. The days of endless cheap labour in the AFP - The days of endless cheap labour in the "workshop of the world" could be numbered as a shortage of workers and government fears of social unrest drive up wages in China, experts say.

Three suicides before China university entry exams (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 07:59 PM PDT

A Chinese student makes her way out past police and security personnel guarding the gate to a school after the annual AFP - At least three students committed suicide ahead of China's university entrance exams, state media said Wednesday, highlighting the huge pressure on young people to win a spot at a top school.

China wage hikes boost costs but might help sales (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 07:29 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Feb. 24, 2010, a recruiter talks to job seekers near a sign which reads 'Foxconn Technology Group Recruitment Point' in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong province. On Sunday, June 6, 2010, Taiwanese-owned Foxconn Technology announced the second in a series of raises that would increase pay by up to 65 percent at its factories in Shenzhen. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - The cost of hiring Chinese workers who supply the world with inexpensive furniture and toys is climbing. But workers with more money to spend is good news for foreign companies that see them as customers, not just factory labor.

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