Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Overpacked China school bus crashes, 18 kids die (AP)
• U.S. commander cannot pin down satellite anomaly (Reuters)
• Panel urges US scrutiny of China military, firms (AP)
• Ai Weiwei: Feels like I just paid $1.3M ransom (AP)
• Outcry after China road accident kills 18 children (Reuters)
• China leery of US-Australia military pact (AP)
• China pessimistic about trade outlook (AP)
• 81-year-old Chinese sets self on fire in protest (AP)
• Cold war in the tropics: China, India vie for Maldives (Reuters)
• China FDI remains strong, export outlook darkens (Reuters)

Overpacked China school bus crashes, 18 kids die (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 04:31 PM PST AP - An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said.

U.S. commander cannot pin down satellite anomaly (Reuters) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:18 PM PST Reuters - The command responsible for U.S. military space operations lacks enough data to determine who interfered with two U.S. government satellites, anomalies behind perhaps the most explosive charge in a report on China sent to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.

Panel urges US scrutiny of China military, firms (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 09:49 AM PST AP - A congressional advisory panel urged the Obama administration and Congress on Wednesday to apply more scrutiny to China's military expansion and signs of aggressiveness. The group also pressed for a tougher U.S. stance against what it called anticompetitive Chinese trade policies.

Ai Weiwei: Feels like I just paid $1.3M ransom (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 06:07 AM PST AP - Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said Wednesday he feels like he has paid a ransom, after depositing $1.3 million into a government account while he contests a huge tax bill months after being held in police detention.

Outcry after China road accident kills 18 children (Reuters) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 05:15 AM PST Reuters - Eighteen nursery school children were killed when a coal truck slammed into their "drastically" overcrowded school van in northwest China on Thursday, local media reported, prompting an outcry about the country's deadly roads.

China leery of US-Australia military pact (AP) Posted: 16 Nov 2011 01:24 AM PST AP - China says a move by the U.S. to expand its military presence in Australia deserves greater scrutiny and might not be appropriate.

China pessimistic about trade outlook (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 11:05 PM PST AP - China's government is pessimistic about its export outlook this year amid global economic turmoil, a Commerce Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.

81-year-old Chinese sets self on fire in protest (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:14 PM PST AP - An 81-year-old woman died after setting herself on fire in her bedroom as a demolition team led by local officials were trying to knock down her home, Chinese media reported Wednesday.

Cold war in the tropics: China, India vie for Maldives (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:57 PM PST Reuters - On the pristine equatorial shores of the Maldives, an archipelago best known for luxurious resort hideaways swathed in coral reefs and cerulean seas, India and China's regional cold war is warming up.

China FDI remains strong, export outlook darkens (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:58 PM PST Reuters - Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China climbed nearly 16 percent in the first 10 months of 2011 from a year earlier as foreign investors continued to flock to the world's fastest-growing major economy despite the global economic malaise.

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