Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Death toll rises to 53 in Shanghai building blaze (AFP)
• Shanghai apartment block fire death toll rises to 53 (Reuters)
• Shanghai high-rise fire kills 49 (AP)
• China's Tianhe-1A Is World's Top Supercomputer (NewsFactor)
• China, India, Russia vow to deepen cooperation (AFP)
• Shanghai apartment blaze toll rises to 42 (AFP)
• Back from Asia, Obama weighs strategic partnerships, China's economic muscle (The Christian Science Monitor)
• US wants China to reciprocate green energy subsidies (AFP)
• China, Russia urge Iran to show nuclear plans peaceful (Reuters)
• Experts find lost genes in wild soybean (Reuters)
• China's ecological footprint continues to grow (AFP)
• China official suggests wider use of yuan: report (AFP)
• China's SAIC agrees to buy one percent of GM (AFP)
• China has world's highest number of diabetics (AFP)
• China must cap yuan gains to fight hot money: official (Reuters)
• China vows reforms to cope with global uncertainty (Reuters)

Death toll rises to 53 in Shanghai building blaze (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:25 PM PST AFP - The death toll from a huge fire that engulfed a high-rise building in Shanghai rose to 53 on Tuesday, as China's top police official vowed to punish anyone found responsible for the disaster.

Shanghai apartment block fire death toll rises to 53 (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:01 PM PST Reuters - The death toll from a fire that swept through a central Shanghai apartment block Monday has risen to 53, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Shanghai high-rise fire kills 49 (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:01 PM PST AP - Investigators searched Tuesday for the cause of a fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment building under renovation in China's business center of Shanghai, killing 49 people and sending residents scrambling down scaffolding to escape.

China's Tianhe-1A Is World's Top Supercomputer (NewsFactor) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 02:02 PM PST NewsFactor - The list is out, and the Chinese have taken the top spot. The new list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, released last week, gives the top spot to the Chinese Tianhe-1A system, which hit 2.57 petaFLOPS, or quadrillion calculations, per second.

China, India, Russia vow to deepen cooperation (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST AFP - The foreign ministers of developing giants China, India and Russia pledged on Monday to step up cooperation in trade, energy and geopolitical affairs including climate change.

Shanghai apartment blaze toll rises to 42 (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:40 AM PST AFP - The death toll from a fire in a Shanghai high-rise building on Monday has risen to 42, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement from city authorities.

Back from Asia, Obama weighs strategic partnerships, China's economic muscle (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 07:14 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Like many sporting contests, President Obama’s just-concluded four-nation Asian tour was a game of two halves.

US wants China to reciprocate green energy subsidies (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 05:56 AM PST AFP - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday China should allow foreign companies to qualify for its subsidies aimed at encouraging renewable energy projects.

China, Russia urge Iran to show nuclear plans peaceful (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 03:53 AM PST Reuters - The foreign ministers of China, Russia and India urged Iran on Monday to prove to the world that its nuclear ambitions are peaceful, and urged a return to talks.

Experts find lost genes in wild soybean (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 01:31 AM PST Reuters - Researchers have found genes in wild varieties of soybean that make them resistant to certain diseases and hope to use them in cultivated species of soy to make them more hardy.

China's ecological footprint continues to grow (AFP) Posted: 15 Nov 2010 12:38 AM PST AFP - The spread of consumerism among China's burgeoning middle class is behind the rapid growth of the Asian giant's environmental footprint, a conservation group said Monday.

China official suggests wider use of yuan: report (AFP) Posted: 14 Nov 2010 11:09 PM PST AFP - China should reduce its dependence on international reserve currencies, which have contributed to an "unstable" world monetary system, a central bank official was quoted Monday as saying.

China's SAIC agrees to buy one percent of GM (AFP) Posted: 14 Nov 2010 11:03 PM PST AFP - China's leading automaker SAIC Motor Corp has agreed in principle to buy a minority stake in General Motors at the US auto giant's initial public offering, state media reported Monday.

China has world's highest number of diabetics (AFP) Posted: 14 Nov 2010 10:38 PM PST AFP - China has the highest number of diabetics in the world with 92.4 million with the condition, but 61 percent of them do not know they have the disease, state media reported Monday.

China must cap yuan gains to fight hot money: official (Reuters) Posted: 14 Nov 2010 08:26 PM PST Reuters - China must keep a firm grip on the yuan exchange rate in order to keep speculative capital at bay, a senior official at the country's foreign exchange regulator was quoted as saying by local media.

China vows reforms to cope with global uncertainty (Reuters) Posted: 14 Nov 2010 05:23 PM PST Reuters - China needs to step up structural reforms to stimulate domestic demand as the global economic recovery remains anemic, the Xinhua news agency quoted Vice Premier Li Keqiang as saying.

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