Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China announces plans to boost secret detention powers (Reuters)
• China's yuan could challenge dollar role in a decade (Reuters)
• China low-fuel landing row reflects growing pains (AP)
• 19 China miners rescued after week, 3 more missing (AP)
• Assailant subdued as police end China bus standoff (AP)
• China's air force to debut 2 new aerial teams (AP)

China announces plans to boost secret detention powers (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Reuters - China wants to cement in law police powers to hold dissidents and other suspects of state security crimes in secret locations without telling their families, under draft legislation released on Tuesday that has been decried by rights advocates.

China's yuan could challenge dollar role in a decade (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT Reuters - Here's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade.

China low-fuel landing row reflects growing pains (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:33 AM PDT AP - Aviation authorities have ordered stiff punishment for a local airline whose pilot refused to yield to a Qatar Airways jet requesting to land because it was short of fuel, highlighting growing concerns over safety in China's overcrowded skies.

19 China miners rescued after week, 3 more missing (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:13 AM PDT AP - Their faces black with coal dust, 19 miners trapped for a week underground were pulled to safety Tuesday in northeastern China as rescuers searched for three missing colleagues.

Assailant subdued as police end China bus standoff (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT AP - Chinese police subdued a knife-wielding assailant and freed a busload of passengers he'd taken captive Tuesday outside a major eastern city, authorities and state media reported.

China's air force to debut 2 new aerial teams (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT AP - China's air force will debut two new aerial demonstration teams this week as part of its growing sophistication and increasingly prominent public role, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday.

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