Yahoo! News: World - China

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• China's Wen says to start policy fine-tuning in (Reuters)
• As Xi visits, China's U.S. crop demand a balm for tensions (Reuters)
• China tells banks to roll over local government loans: FT (Reuters)
• Tibetan nun dies after sets self on fire: activists (Reuters)
• Chinese envoy visits Tehran for nuclear talks (Reuters)
• Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China (AP)

China's Wen says to start policy fine-tuning in (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 04:38 PM PST Reuters - China will start to fine-tune its economic policies in the first quarter, Premier Wen Jiabao said in remarks published by state media Monday, the most explicit indication yet of further monetary policy easing.

As Xi visits, China's U.S. crop demand a balm for tensions (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST Reuters - China is half a world away from the 2,300-acre family farm in east-central Iowa where John Weber and his son plant corn and soybeans.

China tells banks to roll over local government loans: FT (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 03:37 PM PST Reuters - China has instructed its banks to embark on a huge roll-over of loans to local governments, the Financial Times reported, aiming to give itself more time to deal with a debt hangover from the global financial crisis.

Tibetan nun dies after sets self on fire: activists (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 08:20 AM PST Reuters - An 18-year-old Tibetan nun died after setting herself on fire in protest at Chinese rule in Tibet, activists said on Sunday, adding to a fast growing list of self-immolations in ethnically Tibetan areas of China.

Chinese envoy visits Tehran for nuclear talks (Reuters) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 07:15 AM PST Reuters - A senior Chinese diplomat arrived in Tehran on Sunday to discuss Iran's nuclear program, amid differences between China and the West over how to resolve the dispute it has caused.

Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China (AP) Posted: 12 Feb 2012 06:12 AM PST AP - An 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing's handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said Sunday.

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