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China's Wen pushes back against yuan rise calls
Mar 14, 2010 03:31 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday spurned foreign calls for the yuan to rise and showed no let up in scolding the United States over recent bilateral tensions.
China's women struggle for a foothold in power
Mar 07, 2010 21:00 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chairman Mao famously said women hold up half the sky, but in today's China, the half that matters, the economy, often remains out of their reach.
China looks to North Korea nuclear talks before July
Mar 05, 2010 00:30 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants stalled six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear arms activities to restart before July, a senior Chinese diplomat said, warning that progress was by no means certain.
Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009
Feb 04, 2010 23:44 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Temperatures in Tibet rose last year to the highest level since records began for the remote Himalayan region, which scientists say is particularly vulnerable to global warming, state media reported on Friday.
China investigates as tainted milk reappears
Feb 02, 2010 00:40 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has launched nationwide checks for melamine-tainted milk products after the industrial compound, which killed at least six children in 2008, reappeared on shop shelves, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.
Clinton urges Internet freedom, condemns cyber attacks
Jan 21, 2010 14:15 EST
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for an unfettered worldwide Internet and urged global condemnation of those who conduct cyber attacks, as China sought to contain tension with the United States over the hacking and censorship of Google.
Google drama stokes online nationalism, regret in China
Jan 14, 2010 01:59 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Internet giant Google's threat to withdraw from China is generating an outpouring of nationalist fervor from the country's online community, with some cheering it as a victory for the Chinese.
Residents may be evicted for spitting
Jan 07, 2010 12:23 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese people who live in government-sponsored housing in a prosperous southern province may be evicted if caught repeatedly spitting in public, according to a draft plan.
China decries Western "meddling" in dissident trial
Dec 24, 2009 09:35 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China denounced foreign diplomatic "meddling" in the trial this week of Liu Xiaobo, a dissident facing up to 15 years in prison for authoring works calling for greater civil and political freedoms.
China decries Western "meddling" in dissident trial
Dec 24, 2009 09:35 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China denounced foreign diplomatic "meddling" in the trial this week of Liu Xiaobo, a dissident facing up to 15 years in prison for authoring works calling for greater civil and political freedoms.
China's e-bikes free to buzz after reprieve
Dec 16, 2009 07:06 EST
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China backed down from a plan to reclassify large electric bicycles as motorbikes on Wednesday, a move that threatened to put the brakes on a Chinese consumer craze.
China blocks Sun TV signal in content crackdown
Dec 14, 2009 01:45 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has revoked permission for cable operators to distribute commercial network Sun TV due to its outspoken talk shows, sources said on Monday, as part of a government crackdown on content deemed sensitive and too bold.
Sparks fly as China quarrels over battery-powered bikes
Dec 14, 2009 00:48 EST
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - China's vast population of battery-powered bikes is the focus of uproar after new rules ignited public fears, and hopes among some, that these pack mules of the nation's economic boom could be run off the road.
Landslide buries about 20 in northern China
Nov 16, 2009 03:42 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide in northern China has buried about 20 people from one village, though two people have already been pulled out alive, a government official said on Monday.
China's big coal province disrupted by snow
Nov 11, 2009 04:15 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of vehicles have been trapped on roads after two days of snow in China's biggest coal-mining province, disrupting the movement of people and coal, state media reported on Wednesday.
Hu says China seeks peaceful use of airspace
Nov 06, 2009 08:57 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China supports the peaceful exploration and use of space, President Hu Jintao said on Friday, days after its top air force officials sparked concerns with talk of a "Great Wall of steel in the blue sky."
Landslide risk rises near Three Gorges Dam: report
Nov 02, 2009 05:00 EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's vast Three Gorges reservoir will see a increasing number of landslides and other geological hazards as the water reaches its maximum level this autumn, a magazine report warned on Monday.
China says first H1N1 flu vaccinations a success
Sep 22, 2009 10:58 EDT
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The first batch of people to receive vaccinations against the new swine flu -- a group of students in China -- has reported no serious side effects, Chinese officials said on Tuesday.
China anniversary puts security jitters on show
Sep 17, 2009 10:29 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government is flooding Beijing with armed police and up to one million security "volunteers" to head off any unrest over October's sensitive anniversary of 60 years of Communist Party rule.
China says data shows U.S. tire tariff not fair
Sep 15, 2009 13:45 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled data on Tuesday that showed tire exports to the United States fell in the first half of 2009, saying the numbers undercut Washington's accusations China had breached rules by flooding the U.S. market.
