Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China's Zhang is acting Asian football chief - Velappan (AFP)
• Protests break calm in China's Inner Mongolia area (AP)
• China clamps down on Inner Mongolia to quash demos (AFP)
• China hikes electricity rates to counter shortage (AP)
• China hikes power prices as shortages loom (Reuters)
• China orders death penalty in deadly food scandals (AP)

China's Zhang is acting Asian football chief - Velappan (AFP) Posted: 30 May 2011 09:27 AM PDT AFP - China's Zhang Jilong has temporarily taken charge of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after president Mohamed bin Hammam was suspended over graft claims, a former top official said Monday.

Protests break calm in China's Inner Mongolia area (AP) Posted: 30 May 2011 07:44 AM PDT AP - Calls for justice by Mongols in the resource-rich, prosperous borderland of northern China have shattered the calm there to which Chinese leaders have grown accustomed.

China clamps down on Inner Mongolia to quash demos (AFP) Posted: 30 May 2011 05:53 AM PDT AFP - China's Inner Mongolia was under tight security Monday as authorities guard against possible new protests by ethnic Mongols seething over Chinese rule, AFP journalists and a rights group said.

China hikes electricity rates to counter shortage (AP) Posted: 30 May 2011 05:35 AM PDT AP - China has raised electricity rates for some industrial users as parts of the country face severe power shortages.

China hikes power prices as shortages loom (Reuters) Posted: 30 May 2011 04:20 AM PDT Reuters - China has raised power prices for industrial, commercial and agricultural users in some regions by about 3 percent in an attempt to ease what threatens to be the worse power shortage in seven years in the world's second-largest economy.

China orders death penalty in deadly food scandals (AP) Posted: 30 May 2011 12:06 AM PDT AP - China's supreme court has ordered judges across the country to issue harsher sentences, including the death penalty, to people convicted of food safety violations as the government struggles to clean up the nation's food supply after repeated scandals.

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