Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China Ex-Im Bank lends $41M for Bahamas project (AP)
• Obama officials back bill to hit China subsidies (Reuters)
• Group: Chinese police clash with Tibetans, 1 dead (AP)
• China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions (Reuters)
• Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms (AP)
• Two Uighurs deported from Cambodia to China get life (Reuters)
• Thousands battle forest fire in southwestern China (AP)

China Ex-Im Bank lends $41M for Bahamas project (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:54 AM PST AP - China's state-owned Export-Import Bank has agreed to finance a new port and a bridge in the Bahamas, the second major infrastructure project backed in recent months by the Chinese in the island nation.

Obama officials back bill to hit China subsidies (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 07:07 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama's administration is pressing Congress to restore an important weapon in the U.S. arsenal against subsidized imports from China by quickly passing legislation to undo a recent federal appellate court ruling.

Group: Chinese police clash with Tibetans, 1 dead (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST AP - Chinese security forces fired at Tibetans, killing one and wounding several others, an activist group said Friday, in the third reported deadly clash in a politically sensitive Tibetan region in a week.

China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST Reuters - A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river, state media reported on Friday.

Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:47 PM PST AP - Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time as economic ties with the Asian powerhouse grow ever deeper, sparking considerable anxiety in a country where livelihoods are heavily reliant on agriculture.

Two Uighurs deported from Cambodia to China get life (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:46 PM PST Reuters - China has jailed two Muslim Uighurs deported from Cambodia for life, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday, showing no sign of loosening its grip on far-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which holds rich deposits of oil and gas.

Thousands battle forest fire in southwestern China (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:22 PM PST AP - Thousands of fire fighters are battling a blaze in the forest near the famed southwestern Chinese tourist town of Lijiang.

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