Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China to allow individual travel to Taiwan (AFP)
• More than 170 dead and missing in China floods (AFP)
• Vietnam allows second anti-China protest in Hanoi (Reuters)
• China lead pollution outbreak poisons 103 children (Reuters)
• Senior Chinese official visits North Korea (AP)
• More than 600 sickened by lead poisoning in China (AP)
• Hundreds of Vietnamese hold anti-China protest (AP)
• China floods death toll hits 94, with 78 missing (AP)
• China inflation may top 6 percent in June: expert (Reuters)
• Police arrest 25 in southern China after clash (AP)

China to allow individual travel to Taiwan (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 12:05 PM PDT AFP - China will relax a decades-old ban on travel to Taiwan by individuals under a pilot scheme starting June 28, the government said Sunday, responding to growing demand amid a thaw between the two sides.

More than 170 dead and missing in China floods (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT AFP - Flooding caused by torrential downpours in central and southern China has killed 94 people and left 78 others missing, the government said Sunday, warning of further heavy downpours ahead.

Vietnam allows second anti-China protest in Hanoi (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT Reuters - Vietnamese authorities tolerated a second day of anti-China protests in the capital on Sunday as more than 100 people demonstrated against what they see as bullying behavior by Beijing in an escalating dispute over maritime territory.

China lead pollution outbreak poisons 103 children (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 03:41 AM PDT Reuters - Lead pollution from workshops in eastern China seriously poisoned 103 children and has affected hundreds of other residents in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

Senior Chinese official visits North Korea (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 03:18 AM PDT AP - A senior Chinese official is meeting with the president of North Korea's parliament in Pyongyang.

More than 600 sickened by lead poisoning in China (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2011 02:29 AM PDT AP - More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday.

Hundreds of Vietnamese hold anti-China protest (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2011 11:39 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of Vietnamese staged an anti-China protest Sunday for the second week in a row, a day ahead of the country's planned live ammunition naval drill amid a heated spat over territory in the South China Sea.

China floods death toll hits 94, with 78 missing (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT AP - China's flood control office says the death toll from heavy rains lashing central and southern China has risen to at least 94, with 78 people missing.

China inflation may top 6 percent in June: expert (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jun 2011 09:44 PM PDT Reuters - China's inflation rate may accelerate to more than 6 percent year-on-year in June, which could bring the full-year consumer price index for 2011 to as high as 5 percent, a government researcher said in remarks reported on Sunday.

Police arrest 25 in southern China after clash (AP) Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:19 PM PDT AP - Police said Sunday that 25 people in southern China were arrested after a clash between street vendors and security forces, the second such recent incident highlighting government difficulties controlling widening social unrest.

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