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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 12:02 pm ET
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told China's defence minister Wednesday that relations between the two nations were "unbreakable," citing their joint military ties, state press said.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 12:06 pm ET
Zhang Fucheng has lost count of how many hellish scenes he has plunged into in 35 years as a China mine rescue worker, but he is certain of one thing -- this weekend's deadly blast was the worst.
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The News Journal - Wed Nov 25, 1:35 pm ET
China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula -- severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food...
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redOrbit - Wed Nov 25, 2:33 pm ET
Experts say garlic prices in China have nearly quadrupled since March and may soon rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset of 2009, Reuters reported.Morgan Stanley economists said the catalyst of the bull run may have been the idea that the potent bulb can ward off H1N1 swine flu.The China Daily reported last week that a high school in Hangzhou, a prosperous city in ...
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 9:36 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China’s foreign-exchange reserves face a “triple whammy” as inflation, oversupply and the “inevitable” decline of the dollar threaten to erode the value of its holdings of U.S. Treasuries, said Yu Yongding , a former adviser to the Chinese central bank.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 9:05 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China’s government-funded economic growth faces an “inevitable” slump because the nation’s export-led strategy isn’t sustainable, said Yu Yongding , a former adviser to the Chinese central bank.
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INO News - Thu Nov 26, 9:25 am ET
(RTTNews) - China's industrial overcapacity, especially its economic growth is wreaking far-reaching damage on the global economy, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said Thursday.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 7:56 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China may increase resource taxes paid by oil producers next year, China Business News reported, without saying where it got the information.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 8:44 am ET
BEIJING - China called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites on Wednesday, blaming their rise on high-speed mobile data services, deployment of which has otherwise been a point of pride for the country.China issued 3G (third generation) mobile network licenses to its three mobile carriers early this year, and the number of 3G users in China has slowly climbed since then.
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Market Watch - Wed Nov 25, 11:51 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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Washington Post - Wed Nov 25, 10:56 pm ET
Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a "special mission" to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
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Washington Post - 2 hours 30 minutes ago
China announced Thursday that it will cut its economy's carbon intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, the state news agency Xinhua said, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:23 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Fidelity International’s Anthony Bolton said China’s “attractive” economic growth lured him to move to Hong Kong to set up a fund focusing on the country as recovery in the U.S. and Europe “runs out of steam.”
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:11 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Fidelity International’s Anthony Bolton said China’s “attractive” economic growth lured him to move to Hong Kong to set up a fund focusing on the country as recovery in the U.S. and Europe “runs out of steam.”
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 2:11 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of China Ltd. , the nation’s third-largest lender by market value, paced declines in Chinese bank stocks in Hong Kong after saying yesterday it is studying “various options” to replenish capital.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:14 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 2:11 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend next month’s climate-change summit in Copenhagen, the government said. “China attaches great importance to the issue of climate change,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang told reporters in Beijing today.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 24, 10:23 pm ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of China Ltd. , the nation’s third-largest lender by market value, had its biggest two-day decline in 5 months in Hong Kong after saying yesterday it is studying “various options” to replenish capital.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 6:14 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s biggest polluter, set its first target aimed at slowing the growth of carbon dioxide emissions, less than two weeks before global leaders meet to negotiate a new climate change treaty.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 5:25 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s biggest polluter, set its first target aimed at slowing the growth of carbon dioxide emissions, less than two weeks before global leaders meet to negotiate a new climate change treaty.