Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Senator asks Obama to curb Chinese solar panels (Reuters)
• China monetary tightening should continue: IMF (Reuters)
• Muslim militant group claims western China attacks (AP)
• Witness: Nostalgia for Mao era lives on 35 years after his death (Reuters)
• China central bank: No timetable for full yuan convertibility (Reuters)
• Fitch warns of rising China credit risk (AP)
• Some fearful China billionaires steer clear of rich (Reuters)
• European group: China imposing new market barriers (AP)
• Expert excluded from EU-China human rights forum (AP)
• Earth-moving magnate tops yet another China rich list (Reuters)
• Rash of food poisoning cases hits China schools (AP)
• Romney puts China squarely in presidential race (Reuters)

Senator asks Obama to curb Chinese solar panels (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - A Democratic senator on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to use U.S. trade laws to restrict surging imports of solar panels from China in a sign that high U.S. unemployment is increasing trade tensions.

China monetary tightening should continue: IMF (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:40 AM PDT Reuters - China should keep tightening monetary policy to fight inflation pressures even as the pace of global growth shows signs of faltering, the International Monetary Fund's China mission chief said on Thursday.

Muslim militant group claims western China attacks (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 06:07 AM PDT AP - A militant Muslim group claimed by video it carried out recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a monitoring group said.

Witness: Nostalgia for Mao era lives on 35 years after his death (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:07 AM PDT Reuters - Leaning on a cane, Wang Bin hobbled out between the columns of the mausoleum on Tiananmen Square that houses the embalmed body of Mao Zedong, happy he had the strength to visit the shrine before he died.

China central bank: No timetable for full yuan convertibility (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 04:21 AM PDT Reuters - China has no timetable for the full convertibility of its currency though it plans to make the yuan convertible on the capital account eventually, the country's central bank chief said on Thursday.

Fitch warns of rising China credit risk (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 03:25 AM PDT AP - Fitch Ratings said Thursday that China's credit risk has increased because local governments have become heavily indebted, with a lack of disclosure by financial institutions compounding the problem.

Some fearful China billionaires steer clear of rich (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT Reuters - Growing numbers of China's rich want to avoid publicizing their wealth, Forbes said, reflecting fears of official scrutiny amid a vast and growing rich-poor divide after several billionaires have ended up in jail.

European group: China imposing new market barriers (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 02:12 AM PDT AP - China is imposing new obstacles to access to its markets, including sweeping national security rules, raising questions about its promises to treat companies equally, a European business group said Thursday.

Expert excluded from EU-China human rights forum (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2011 12:49 AM PDT AP - The European Union said Thursday that it deeply regrets China's exclusion of a human rights expert from a forum held in Beijing this week and it has communicated its disappointment to the Chinese side.

Earth-moving magnate tops yet another China rich list (Reuters) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:05 PM PDT Reuters - Forbes' latest ranking of China's richest people pits stolid industrial muscle against high-tech, with the head of an earth-moving company pipping the co-founder of the nation's biggest Internet search engine for the top spot.

Rash of food poisoning cases hits China schools (AP) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 10:28 PM PDT AP - Nearly 300 Chinese primary and middle school students have been sickened by unsafe food or water provided by their schools in five separate incidents over the past week, state media said Thursday.

Romney puts China squarely in presidential race (Reuters) Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:37 PM PDT Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's threat to get tough with China about its trade practices increases the odds that China-bashing will permeate a presidential contest to woo U.S. voters seeking a culprit for the nation's economic malaise.

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