Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Canada regulator probing China's Zungui Haixi (Reuters)
• Shanghai shuts 2 factories in lead poisoning probe (AP)
• Hospital births saving babies in China, study says (AP)
• China's Wen still worried about high prices (Reuters)
• Insight: Looming U.S. decision on Taiwan risks China rift (Reuters)
• Independent poll candidates on the rise in China (AP)
• China says it won't bow to U.S. on yuan: report (Reuters)
• China arrests more than 2,000 in gang crackdown (AP)
• Shanghai fire victims' families fight for justice (Reuters)
• China bullet train crash probe blames signals (AP)

Canada regulator probing China's Zungui Haixi (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - Chinese clothing and footwear company Zungui Haixi Corp said on Friday that Canada's top securities regulator has started to investigate it after the company's auditor flagged accounting concerns last month.

Shanghai shuts 2 factories in lead poisoning probe (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:31 AM PDT AP - Shanghai's environmental watchdog ordered two factories in its suburbs to halt production pending an investigation into the source of lead poisoning among children in a nearby village.

Hospital births saving babies in China, study says (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:08 AM PDT AP - New data show that encouraging Chinese women to give birth in the hospital has contributed to a sharp drop in infant deaths over a 12-year period.

China's Wen still worried about high prices (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:18 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is still worried about high prices, according to a statement on the central Chinese government's website on Friday.

Insight: Looming U.S. decision on Taiwan risks China rift (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:02 AM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration's impending decision on arms sales to Taiwan is likely to strain the diplomatic truce between the United States and China, which faces rising domestic demands to wield its growing power against debt-saddled Washington.

Independent poll candidates on the rise in China (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:39 AM PDT AP - Increasing numbers of Chinese are seeking to run as independent candidates in upcoming local elections, but face daunting obstacles as the ruling Communist Party tries to tamp down any threat to its monopoly on power.

China says it won't bow to U.S. on yuan: report (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:12 AM PDT Reuters - China will not permit a significant appreciation of its currency even if the United States passes a bill forcing China to do so, the official Xinhua news agency said in an editorial on Friday.

China arrests more than 2,000 in gang crackdown (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT AP - China's security body says it has arrested nearly 2,200 people as part of a nationwide crackdown on gang-related crime.

Shanghai fire victims' families fight for justice (Reuters) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT Reuters - Almost a year after a deadly fire in a high-rise Shanghai apartment building killed 58 people, the relatives of some of the victims are still fighting for the authorities to be more transparent about the disaster.

China bullet train crash probe blames signals (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:08 PM PDT AP - An investigation into a deadly bullet train crash in China has found that faulty signaling systems and mismanagement were mainly to blame, reports said Friday, though the accident was triggered by a lightning strike.

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