Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Report: Tibet monk self-immolates in China's west (AP)
• China's Vice President Xi kicks off Dublin visit (Reuters)
• China-Malaysia firm rejects S.Sudan accusations in oil row (Reuters)
• China acts to crank up credit as lending, economy slow (Reuters)

Report: Tibet monk self-immolates in China's west (AP) Posted: 19 Feb 2012 04:46 PM PST AP - An overseas group says a Tibetan monk has died after setting himself on fire at a monastery in western China's Sichuan province.

China's Vice President Xi kicks off Dublin visit (Reuters) Posted: 19 Feb 2012 11:53 AM PST Reuters - Ireland's national sports of Gaelic football and hurling won an unlikely new audience on Sunday when pictures of China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping kicking a football in Dublin's Croke Park stadium were beamed home to Beijing.

China-Malaysia firm rejects S.Sudan accusations in oil row (Reuters) Posted: 19 Feb 2012 09:15 AM PST Reuters - Chinese-Malaysian oil firm Petrodar, the main oil operator in South Sudan, denied on Sunday it had helped Sudan seize any southern oil, after Juba accused Chinese firms of cooperating with Khartoum in a row between the two countries.

China acts to crank up credit as lending, economy slow (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:50 PM PST Reuters - China's central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6-$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world's second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

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