Yahoo! News: World - China

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• House panel sets hearing on China trade concerns (Reuters)
• Group says Tibetan sets herself on fire in protest (AP)
• China vaccinates 4.5 million in fight against polio (Reuters)
• U.S. official says currency bill reflects frustration with China (Reuters)
• China sets in motion plan for 2012 succession meeting (Reuters)
• China's top communists call for cultural campaign (AP)
• China vaccinates 9 million amid polio outbreak (AP)
• China's economic growth slows amid cooling efforts (AP)
• Debt panic in China's Wenzhou may augur wider woes (AP)
• China police shoot Tibetans, nun burns to death: group (Reuters)
• China growth slows to 2-year low (Reuters)
• Taiwan and China to sign nuclear power safety deal (AP)
• China vaccinates 4.5 million people in fight against polio (Reuters)
• Geithner and China's Wang discuss economy in phone call: report (Reuters)
• Toddler hit-and-run sparks outrage in China (AP)

House panel sets hearing on China trade concerns (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:57 PM PDT Reuters - A senior Republican lawmaker on Tuesday announced a congressional hearing next week on Chinese trade practices he said were hurting American businesses and workers, but stopped short of promising action on Senate currency legislation to deal with the concerns.

Group says Tibetan sets herself on fire in protest (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:13 AM PDT AP - A Tibetan nun calling for greater religious freedom died after setting herself on fire in western China, the latest in a series of self-immolations among the region's Buddhist clergy, an advocacy group said Tuesday.

China vaccinates 4.5 million in fight against polio (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:15 AM PDT Reuters - China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organization said.

U.S. official says currency bill reflects frustration with China (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - Contentious legislation in the United States aimed at pressuring China to raise the value of the yuan reflects broader American frustrations with its trade partner, a senior U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.

China sets in motion plan for 2012 succession meeting (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT Reuters - China's leaders ended their latest closed-door conclave on Tuesday with a decision to hold a Communist Party congress in the second half of 2012 to install successors to President Hu Jintao's generation.

China's top communists call for cultural campaign (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:25 AM PDT AP - The ruling Communist Party approved a program Tuesday to enhance its popularity at home and China's image abroad at a time when the leadership is struggling with domestic unrest and a delicate succession.

China vaccinates 9 million amid polio outbreak (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:32 AM PDT AP - Chinese health authorities have vaccinated more than 9 million people in a far western region against polio amid an outbreak of the disease that has paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them.

China's economic growth slows amid cooling efforts (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:24 AM PDT AP - China's rapid growth eased last quarter to a still-robust 9.1 percent — enough to ease concerns of an abrupt slowdown in the world's second-largest economy but too little to buoy the troubled West.

Debt panic in China's Wenzhou may augur wider woes (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:23 AM PDT AP - Wenzhou's private entrepreneurs, scrappy survivors in an economy ruled by state industries, once thrived on a formula of cheap backstreet loans and low-cost manufacturing.

China police shoot Tibetans, nun burns to death: group (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:37 AM PDT Reuters - A Tibetan nun in China burned herself to death on Monday a day after police shot and wounded two Tibetan demonstrators, a group advocating Tibetan self-determination said, the latest protests against Chinese rule of the Himalayan region.

China growth slows to 2-year low (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:35 AM PDT Reuters - China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace in more than two years as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term.

Taiwan and China to sign nuclear power safety deal (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:22 AM PDT AP - Taiwan's top China negotiator says the island will sign an agreement with China later this week to cooperate on nuclear power-related security issues.

China vaccinates 4.5 million people in fight against polio (Reuters) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:14 AM PDT Reuters - China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organization said.

Geithner and China's Wang discuss economy in phone call: report (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:55 PM PDT Reuters - United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan discussed economic relations and the international outlook in a phone call on Tuesday Beijing time, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

Toddler hit-and-run sparks outrage in China (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:32 PM PDT AP - A video showing a toddler being struck twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn't help the child.

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