Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Hotel fire in China kills 10, injures 35 (AFP)
• Hotel fire in northeast China kills 10, injures 35 (AP)
• China's new indoor smoking ban takes effect (AP)
• Survey shows China's manufacturing eases in April (AP)
• China manufacturing activity slips in April (AFP)
• China manufacturing growth slows in April, hit by tightening (Reuters)
• China pays price for world's rare earths addiction (AFP)

Hotel fire in China kills 10, injures 35 (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2011 06:01 AM PDT AFP - A fire at a hotel in northeastern China killed 10 people and injured 35 on Sunday, state media reported, in the latest deadly accident to highlight lax Chinese safety standards.

Hotel fire in northeast China kills 10, injures 35 (AP) Posted: 01 May 2011 04:44 AM PDT AP - A fire at a hotel in northeastern China killed 10 people and injured 35 others Sunday, while lightning sparked several forest fires in another part of the country, a state news agency said.

China's new indoor smoking ban takes effect (AP) Posted: 01 May 2011 01:51 AM PDT AP - China's latest push to ban smoking in indoor public venues came into effect Sunday, but the vaguely defined expanded rules were not expected to dramatically reduce the country's heavy tobacco addiction.

Survey shows China's manufacturing eases in April (AP) Posted: 30 Apr 2011 11:18 PM PDT AP - China's manufacturing sector eased in April, a survey showed Sunday, suggesting that the government's efforts to cool the economy may be having some effect.

China manufacturing activity slips in April (AFP) Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:56 PM PDT AFP - Manufacturing activity in China slowed slightly in April and the costs of raw materials fell, according to official data released Sunday, as Beijing tries to cool the world's second-largest economy.

China manufacturing growth slows in April, hit by tightening (Reuters) Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT Reuters - China's manufacturing growth slowed in April, a survey showed on Sunday, suggesting that the government's tightening efforts have weighed on the world's second-largest economy more heavily than expected.

China pays price for world's rare earths addiction (AFP) Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:17 PM PDT AFP - Peasant farmer Wang Tao used to grow corn, potatoes and wheat within a stone's throw of a dumping ground for rare earths waste until toxic chemicals leaked into the water supply and poisoned his land.

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