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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 20 minutes ago
Police have finally presented a case against prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has been jailed for a year without charge after helping produce a high-profile manifesto calling for sweeping democratic reforms in China, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 33 minutes ago
China may be enjoying a comfortable lead in the medals table at the East Asian Games, but they have not had it all their own way, crashing out of the football and "humiliated" in men's basketball.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 58 minutes ago
China said Wednesday that police had detained 94 people who fled the western region of Xinjiang after deadly rioting there in July — the country's worst communal violence in decades.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - 2 hours 37 minutes ago
As China's most notorious football manager, Wang Po seemingly would stop at little to fix matches -- drugging players, threatening coaches, and witholding pay from uncooperative players. Those were amid allegations that prompted his recent arrest. The claims, spread widely in the Chinese media and Internet, are the latest to cloud the game in China, where football is widely popular but the...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:37 am ET
China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 9:41 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China XLX Fertiliser Ltd., the maker of urea and methanol, rose to HK$8.70 from its opening price of HK$5.02 on its first day of trading in Hong Kong today, by way of introduction.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 12:37 am ET
Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 10:54 pm ET
China's first civil lawsuit seeking compensation over last year's tainted milk scandal has been delayed for further investigation, state-run media reported Wednesday.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 6:25 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China Corn Oil, the largest producer of edible corn oil in the country, plans to raise as much as HK$673.8 million selling 175 million new shares at as much as HK$3.85 each in an initial stock sale in Hong Kong, the company said in statement to the city’s exchange today.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 8 minutes ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell for a second day, led by financial companies and raw-materials producers, on concern the government will curb new lending to avert asset bubbles and limit overcapacity in the nation’s industries.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 43 minutes ago
China remains a top investment destination for U.S. companies in 2010 amid the global economic slowdown as they expect to see continuous growth in sales and profit, an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) study showed.
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Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 7:38 pm ET
Ron Rowland submits: The Claymore China Technology ETF started trading today (12/08/2009) and seeks to track the AlphaShares China Technology Index. Index constituents consist of publicly-traded companies based in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Macau that are in the information technology sector, and are open to foreign investment. CQQQ currently has 34 holdings with the ten largest being Tencent ...
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 1:43 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China had “good reason” to depreciate its currency during the global financial crisis as exports fell and chose instead to keep the yuan stable, central bank Deputy Governor Zhu Min said.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 1:27 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China had “good reason” to depreciate its currency as exports fell because of the global financial crisis, central banker Zhu Min said.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 9:40 pm ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have significant price changes in Hong Kong trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and share prices are as of the last close.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:15 pm ET
As the world's top producer of energy-efficient light bulbs and a potentially massive market for them, China is seen as pivotal to greater worldwide acceptance of environmentally-friendly lighting.
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Bloomberg - 3 minutes ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Traders are snapping up options on Research In Motion Ltd. , betting the shares will climb 31 percent in five weeks as sales in China accelerate.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - 34 minutes ago
Japan's Suntory Group has agreed to buy a 70 percent share in Shanghai-based ASC Fine Wines Holding Ltd., a major importer and distributor of foreign wines in China, the companies said Wednesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:37 am ET
The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner, Herta Mueller, on Tuesday urged Western countries to be tougher on China, which she said is still far from being a democratic country.
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 1:17 am ET
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China will curb speculation in the housing market and improve policies to regulate property purchases, the head of the economic planning agency said Wednesday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.