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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 2:01 am ET
China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 19 minutes ago
Chinese leaders pledged Friday to stick to stimulus spending and easy credit to support growth next year, making clear their unease about the stability of China's nascent recovery from the global crisis.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 4:25 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s Politburo, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, said the nation will maintain stimulus policies next year as the world’s third-biggest economy recovers from the global slump.
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Market Watch - Wed Nov 25, 11:40 pm ET
Shares of China Minsheng Banking Corp. make a tepid debut in spite of heavy subscriptions for Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering of 2009, as the bank’s high valuations and an overhang of policy tightening in China’s banking industry damp investor sentiment.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 3:28 am ET
China's Communist Party leadership pledged during a meeting Friday to "actively" tackle climate change and stick to its current fiscal and monetary policies, state media reported.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - 26 minutes ago
Japan and China agreed on Friday to conduct their first joint military training exercise, in the latest sign of warming ties between the Asian neighbors, long marked by mutual suspicion and spats over a range of issues.
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USA Today - Fri Nov 27, 2:44 am ET
China set a firm target to control its emissions of greenhouse gases Thursday, an unprecedented step that bolsters the momentum of climate change talks at next month's United Nations summit in Copenhagen.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 3:50 pm ET
Senior US officials traveled to China two weeks before President Barack Obama's trip there to pressure Beijing to further isolate Iran, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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Fox News - Wed Nov 25, 9:57 pm ET
China Minsheng's IPO Weighs On Hong Kong Shares
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CNN - Fri Nov 27, 1:15 am ET
China will launch a second lunar probe next October, state-run media reported Friday.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 13 minutes ago
China said Friday that restored political contacts at the highest level with France means economic relations, which some feared could be hurt by recent diplomatic tensions, can improve.
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Washington Post - Fri Nov 27, 12:00 am ET
China announced Thursday that it will lower its carbon emissions relative to the size of its economy by as much as 45 percent by 2020, the official New China News Agency reported, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
UNAIDS on Friday launched a campaign to address rampant discrimination against people living with HIV in China, with the help of Chinese NBA megastar Yao Ming.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 5:40 am ET
A computer worm that China warned Internet users against is an updated version of the Panda Burning Incense virus, which infected millions of PCs in the country three years ago, according to McAfee.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 11:31 pm ET
China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 4:33 pm ET
China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday.
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CNN - Thu Nov 26, 10:09 pm ET
China could face a protectionist backlash next year because of a huge over- expansion of industrial capacity in recent months that may lead to a surge in cheap exports, a European business group said on Thursday.
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The Washington Times - 2 hours 50 minutes ago
BEIJING | China promised Thursday to slow - but not reduce - its carbon emissions, in a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches. Beijing's voluntary pledge comes a day after President Obama promised that the United States would lay out plans at the summit to substantially cut its own greenhouse gas emissions ...
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AFP/File via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 3:09 am ET
India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in an interview published Friday that China's decision to unveil a carbon emissions target had put pressure on India to follow suit.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 3:08 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell, sending the benchmark index to its biggest weekly loss in three months, as a slump in commodity prices and share-sale concerns dragged raw- materials producers and financial companies lower.