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Yahoo! News: World - China

China's urban dwellers to exceed rural population (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:42 AM PDT

AP - China's urban population is expected to surpass 700 million in the next five years, exceeding the number of rural dwellers for the first time, the country's top population policy official was cited as saying in a report Sunday.

China mudslide toll at 42, with 57 missing: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 11:00 AM PDT

Chinese children play in the floodwaters in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi province in June 2010. Rescue workers have dug up the bodies of 42 people killed in a rain-triggered landslide in southwest China, with hopes for 57 others missing all but gone, state press said.(AFP/File)AFP - Rescue workers have dug up the bodies of 42 people killed in a rain-triggered landslide in southwest China, with hopes for 57 others missing all but gone, state press said.

China premier: economic environment 'complicated' (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT

AP - China's economic health still faces threats from the halting global recovery, but Beijing has no plans to make major changes to its economic policies, Premier Wen Jiabao said in a report posted on the central government's website Sunday.

Fear in China's Urumqi city as riot anniversary looms (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Security cameras are seen on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region ahead of the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Police told Abdullah not to leave home on Monday's anniversary of deadly ethnic violence in China's Urumqi city, where the bustle belies continued deep racial divisions and fears of more unrest.

Police on alert in China ahead of riot anniversary (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:46 AM PDT

A Japanese supporter of Uighurs shouts slogans as he and others march though a street in a rally against China's government in Tokyo, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Around 200 Uighurs and their supporters took to a street ahead of the first anniversary of a deadly ethnic violence between Xinjiang's minority Uighurs and majority Han Chinese migrants last July. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday, part of stringent security precautions put in place ahead of the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades.

HK's Yam eventually sees yuan as third global currency (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:46 AM PDT

An employee counts Renmingbi banknotes at a branch of the Bank of China in Changzhi, Shanxi province November 27, 2008. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Only China's yuan could rank with the dollar and euro as pillars of the global monetary system, given time and five key tests, Hong Kong's former Monetary Authority chief Joseph Yam was quoted as saying.

West China city braces for deadly riot anniversary (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 05:47 AM PDT

An ethnic Uighur special police patrols on a street in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 2, 2010. Picture taken July 2, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - The capital of China's remote western region of Xinjiang feels like a city under siege, the day before it marks the first anniversary of ethnic rioting which killed around 200 people.

China's population to near 1.4 billion by 2015 (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 02:43 AM PDT

Candidates gather for the 2010 national civil-service examination at a university in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province, in 2009. China's population will near 1.4 billion by 2015, when over half of the nation will be considered urban dwellers, state press has said.(AFP/AFP)AFP - China's population will near 1.4 billion by 2015, when over half of the nation will be considered urban dwellers, state press said Sunday.

Uighurs in Japan call for freedom in China (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 02:13 AM PDT

Uighurs in Japan and their supporters stage a demonstration march in Tokyo in 2009. Members of China's Uighur ethnic minority and their Japanese supporters Sunday have held a rally commemorating the first anniversary of deadly ethnic unrest in China's far-western Xinjiang region.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Members of China's Uighur ethnic minority and their Japanese supporters Sunday held a rally commemorating the first anniversary of deadly ethnic unrest in China's far-western Xinjiang region.

China economy stable, but macroeconomic dilemmas: Wen (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to keep macroeconomic policy stable but warned of the difficulties of controlling the economy, a report on the government website said on Sunday.

42 bodies recovered from landslide in SW China (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 01:53 AM PDT

Local villagers check a road damaged by floods in Mangdang Town of Nanping, Fujian province June 26, 2010. Flood-battered parts of south China battled fresh downpours on Thursday after at least 365 people died as rivers broke their banks and landslides cut road and rail links in a week of torrential rain. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - Rescuers pulled 42 bodies from a landslide in southwest China, and 57 people remained missing nearly a week after the disaster with no signs of life detected, the Xinhua News Agency said Sunday.

China sentences another Tibetan environmentalist (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:40 PM PDT

File photo shows Chinese riot policemen aboard a truck in front of the Potala palace in Lhasa. A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday.

As US fights, China spends to gain Afghan foothold (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this June 23, 2010 photo, a man carries an appliance he bough at Nader Pashtun market in Kabul, Afghanistan, where virtually everything comes from China. While the headlines focus on the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, China's spreading global footprint has become highly visible in Afghanistan, and the U.S. is said to welcome it. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Gul Akbar's tiny store is crammed from floor to ceiling with rolls of electric cables, plugs of all sizes and piles of extension cords. Virtually everything comes from China, as do most of the appliances and electronics being sold in Kabul's busy Nader Pashtun Market.

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