Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China charges Tibetan monks with homicide in self-immolation (Reuters)
• Kim renews push for resuming NKorean nuclear talks (AP)
• China charges 3 in death of Buddhist monk (AP)
• Exclusive: China plans to mop up bank liquidity (Reuters)
• China law change would allow secret detentions (AP)
• North Korea's Kim repeats to China he willing to resume talks (Reuters)
• Beijing OKs HK ruling blocking vulture fund suit (AP)
• China bars some Lady Gaga hits from download sites (AP)
• China, France agree to discuss yuan flexibility (AP)
• China Foreign Ministry increases news conferences (AP)
• ConocoPhillips finds new seeps in China oil spill (AP)
• China denounces U.S. report, defends military upgrade (Reuters)
• Chinese surgery patient dies as doctors flee fire (AP)
• China issues protest over US report on military (AP)
• Fat camp shows China battling the bulge (Reuters)
• Joint U.S.-China operation busts child porn ring (Reuters)
• New Tibet boss does not mention Dalai Lama (AP)
• China invests $199 billion for urban rail through 2015: report (Reuters)

China charges Tibetan monks with homicide in self-immolation (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - A court in southwest China has charged three Tibetan monks with "intentional homicide" for hiding a fellow monk and preventing him from getting treatment after he set himself on fire, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday.

Kim renews push for resuming NKorean nuclear talks (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 07:31 AM PDT AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il renewed a push to restart talks on swapping aid for his country's nuclear disarmament during a stop in northeastern China on Friday on his return journey from Russia.

China charges 3 in death of Buddhist monk (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:15 AM PDT AP - Authorities in southwestern China will charge three Buddhist monks with murder over the death of a monk who set himself on fire in an alleged protest against Chinese government policies, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Exclusive: China plans to mop up bank liquidity (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:11 AM PDT Reuters - China has ordered banks to include their margin deposits in required reserves at the central bank to mop up excessive liquidity, banking sources said on Friday, the latest move in Beijing's campaign to rein in worrisome inflation.

China law change would allow secret detentions (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 06:04 AM PDT AP - Activists said Friday that proposed changes to Chinese criminal law would effectively legitimize the disappearances used against high-profile dissidents.

North Korea's Kim repeats to China he willing to resume talks (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:15 AM PDT Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told his neighbor and biggest patron China on Friday that he was willing to return to stalled nuclear talks "without precondition," China's Xinhua news agency reported, following a similar pledge to Russia.

Beijing OKs HK ruling blocking vulture fund suit (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 05:06 AM PDT AP - Beijing on Friday confirmed a decision that prevents the Democratic Republic of Congo from being sued in Hong Kong courts in a case that raised issues about the Chinese territory's autonomy.

China bars some Lady Gaga hits from download sites (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:46 AM PDT AP - China's Ministry of Culture has ordered music download sites to delete songs by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, the Backstreet Boys and other pop stars within two weeks or face punishment.

China, France agree to discuss yuan flexibility (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 04:39 AM PDT AP - France and China have agreed to discuss how to work toward easing Beijing's controversial currency controls and making its yuan freely traded, the French finance minister said Friday.

China Foreign Ministry increases news conferences (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:44 AM PDT AP - China's Foreign Ministry says it will hold news conference every weekday starting from September.

ConocoPhillips finds new seeps in China oil spill (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:33 AM PDT AP - ConocoPhillips said Friday it has discovered new oil seeps in an area of China's Bohai Bay where it faces a deadline to clean up spills from earlier this summer.

China denounces U.S. report, defends military upgrade (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT Reuters - China denounced on Friday a Pentagon report that warned its military modernization could destabilize the region, saying the U.S. military's annual assessment of Beijing's armed forces indulged in exaggeration and "groundless suspicion."

Chinese surgery patient dies as doctors flee fire (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:22 PM PDT AP - A man in China died on the operating table after his doctors fled from a fire that broke out in the next room, a hospital official said Friday.

China issues protest over US report on military (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 10:54 PM PDT AP - China formally protested over a Pentagon report on the Chinese military Friday, calling it a major distortion that flew in the face of a warming trend in relations between the two nations and their militaries.

Fat camp shows China battling the bulge (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 10:17 PM PDT Reuters - On the grounds of the Bodyworks weight loss campus in Beijing, 30 tubby men and women sweat profusely, gasping for air as they pound the treadmills in an exercise room.

Joint U.S.-China operation busts child porn ring (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:51 PM PDT Reuters - A joint U.S.-China police operation has cracked a Chinese-language child pornography ring in New York, Chinese police said, an unusual public example of cooperation between the countries' law enforcement agencies.

New Tibet boss does not mention Dalai Lama (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 08:50 PM PDT AP - China's new Communist Party boss in Tibet passed on the chance to bash the Dalai Lama in his first public remarks since taking office, a shift from the angry rhetoric his predecessor routinely leveled against the exiled Buddhist leader.

China invests $199 billion for urban rail through 2015: report (Reuters) Posted: 25 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Reuters - China will invest about 1.27 trillion yuan ($199 billion) to build subways and light rail lines during the current five-year plan ending in 2015 to ease traffic congestion and spur urban development, the official China Securities Journal reported on Friday.

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