Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China reveals its space plans up to 2016 (AP)
• China executes 12 people in single day (AP)
• New satellites to extend China's military reach (Reuters)
• Chinese lawyer goes on trial in dissent crackdown (AP)
• China speeds up QFII approvals amid signs of capital outflow (Reuters)
• Suspected kidnappers killed in China's restive west (Reuters)
• Police shoot 7 'terrorists' in China's Muslim west (AP)

China reveals its space plans up to 2016 (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 04:01 AM PST AP - China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum.

China executes 12 people in single day (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 03:58 AM PST AP - China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office.

New satellites to extend China's military reach (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 02:27 AM PST Reuters - China this week reached a milestone in its drive to master the military use of space with the launch of trials for its Beidou satellite global positioning network, a move that will bring it one step closer to matching U.S. space capabilities.

Chinese lawyer goes on trial in dissent crackdown (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 01:57 AM PST AP - A former lawyer and veteran activist left disabled by past police mistreatment went on trial Thursday, the third dissident in a week to be prosecuted as China presses a sweeping crackdown to deter popular uprisings like the ones that shook the Arab world.

China speeds up QFII approvals amid signs of capital outflow (Reuters) Posted: 29 Dec 2011 12:08 AM PST Reuters - China has since October granted nearly $1 billion in quotas for foreign institutions to invest in the country's capital markets following a five-month hiatus, reflecting Beijing's desire to encourage inbound investment amid signs of a capital outflow.

Suspected kidnappers killed in China's restive west (Reuters) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:35 PM PST Reuters - Police in China's restive far-western Xinjiang region killed seven "kidnappers in a hostage rescue," official media reported on Thursday, calling the suspects members of a "terror gang" who may have been influenced by Muslim hardliners.

Police shoot 7 'terrorists' in China's Muslim west (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:16 PM PST AP - Police in China's restive Central Asia border area fatally shot seven members of a Muslim ethnic group in what officials said Thursday was an attempt to end a kidnapping by terrorists, but what a rights group said was excessive force.

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