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The White House gave a mixed reaction on Friday to China's plans to cut its carbon intensity levels, welcoming the proposal but saying the world would watch whether Beijing kept its promises to tackle climate change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
China has executed two men for abducting and selling 15 children, many of whom were taken as babies or toddlers and have not yet been reunited with their parents, state media said Friday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China has found 88 case of wrongdoing involving the nation’s stimulus plan introduced in November of last year, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing He Guoqiang, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s finance ministry completed its first sale of 50-year debt at a lower-than-expected yield as brokerages said life insurers purchased the securities.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Oriental Watch Holdings Ltd. , Hong Kong’s second-biggest listed watch retailer, forecast sales will grow by at least 10 percent next year on resurgent Chinese demand for brands such as Rolex and Swatch Group AG’s Omega.
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.”
China is preparing to unveil a target to curb carbon emissions ahead of a major climate summit in Copenhagen next month, but experts and negotiators worry Beijing's much-anticipated figure may disappoint.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may improve chances for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen.
A gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine killed nine people, state media said Friday, the latest deadly accident to strike the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.
Praxair China signed an agreement with MAGI Solar Energy Technology to supply bulk and process gases for its solar cell and module manufacturing facility.
GUANGZHOU, China — For decades, China's citizens have lived with the controversial one-child regime imposed on them by the government. Now, pet lovers in this southern factory city are frothing over the latest official intrusion into their lives: a one-dog policy.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s largest soybean buyer, will purchase the oilseed and corn from the domestic market to boost farm incomes, the National Development and Reform Commission said.
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