Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China vice president to visit White House Feb. 14 (AP)
• Chinese vice president Xi to visit U.S. next month (Reuters)
• Canadian minister blasts China ahead of PM's visit (Reuters)
• Beijing begins measuring tiny air pollutants (Reuters)
• Chinese fire on Tibetan protest, 1 dead: advocacy group (Reuters)
• Groups: Police fire on Tibetans, at least 1 dead (AP)
• China's New Space Exploration Vision Shoots for the Moon (SPACE.com)
• Man dies of bird flu in southwest China: report (Reuters)
• Some Chinese aggrieved find inspiration in rebel village (Reuters)
• Foreign firms eye China's crowded express delivery market (Reuters)

China vice president to visit White House Feb. 14 (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:59 PM PST AP - Vice President Xi Jinping who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as the next president of China will visit the White House on Feb. 14.

Chinese vice president Xi to visit U.S. next month (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama will meet Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the country's likely next ruler, at the White House on February 14, the White House said on Monday.

Canadian minister blasts China ahead of PM's visit (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:56 PM PST Reuters - Canada's foreign minister launched an outspoken attack on China's "abhorrent" treatment of religious minorities on Monday, just weeks before Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes to Beijing in a bid to sell more oil.

Beijing begins measuring tiny air pollutants (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST Reuters - Beijing began disclosing the amount of tiny pollution particles in the air on Saturday, in a move that could improve disclosure but alarm a public barely resigned to the capital's choking smog.

Chinese fire on Tibetan protest, 1 dead: advocacy group (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:56 AM PST Reuters - Chinese troops fired on thousands of Tibetans protesting in southwestern Sichuan province Monday, killing at least one and wounding more, two overseas advocacy groups said.

Groups: Police fire on Tibetans, at least 1 dead (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:19 AM PST AP - Overseas Tibetan activist groups said security forces fired on Tibetan protesters in southwest China on Monday, killing at least one and injuring others.

China's New Space Exploration Vision Shoots for the Moon (SPACE.com) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:44 AM PST SPACE.com - There is no doubt that China is on the move in space — including the country's own human spaceflight missions to Earth orbit — and at a time when NASA's own budget and big space decisions remain in the to-be-determined column.

Man dies of bird flu in southwest China: report (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:23 AM PST Reuters - A man in southwest China died of bird flu on Sunday after three days of intensive care treatment in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Health as saying.

Some Chinese aggrieved find inspiration in rebel village (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:19 AM PST Reuters - As China gears up for a leadership transition, a small fishing village that stood up to official corruption and rural land grabs has become a touchstone for other communities striving to fight back against grassroots abuses.

Foreign firms eye China's crowded express delivery market (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST Reuters - When 70-year-old Qian Yongfang of Nanjing in eastern China opened a package of mooncakes her daughter had sent by express delivery, two boxes of the sweet pastries were missing.

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