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Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama intends to discuss freedom of expression, rule of law and Tibet with Chinese President Hu Jintao during their meeting in Beijing next week, a senior White House official said.
Top Editor of Magazine that Challenged the Government Resigns, Deemed a "Step Back" for China's Media
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s second-largest energy user, will raise gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices by as much as 8 percent tomorrow, the first increase in more than two months, as crude costs and demand climbed.
China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.
China's foreign minister stressed his country's commitment to Africa's development Monday at the end of a China-Africa summit in which Beijing pledged $10 billion in loans and countered criticism it was plundering the continent's resources.
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s largest soybean importer , may offer subsidies to buyers of locally grown oilseeds to boost farm incomes, potentially curbing purchases from overseas, industry executives said.
Nine people have been executed in connection with ethnic riots last July that killed about 200 people in western China's Xinjiang region, the state-run China News Service reported Monday.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s housing prices in 70 cities rose 3.9 percent in October from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on its Web site today. That was the biggest gain in 14 months.
Essay: China's Africa Gambit
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar traded near a two-week low against the euro before reports tomorrow that economists say will show China’s industrial production gained and its exports declined at the slowest pace in 10 months.
China is reveling in the success of its aggressive response to the global crisis, but could the country be riding for a fall?
Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States.
BEIJING -- Powered by tax cuts and stimulus spending, China's October auto sales soared 72 percent from a year earlier, outpacing U.S. sales for another month, according to data reported Monday.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Beijing Capital International Airport canceled about 70 flights today, China Central Television reported, stranding thousands of passengers as the city was hit by a second snowstorm this month.
BEIJING – Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program run by the communist government’s Ministry of Public Security, is alive and well and censoring freedom of expression for millions of Chinese.
(FT) -- Wen Jiabao, China's premier, has pledged $10bn in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and defended China's engagement against accusations it is "plundering" the continent's oil and minerals.
Editor, founder of China's most influential news magazine resigns amid friction with publisher
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China Minsheng Banking Corp. , the nation’s first privately owned lender, plans to raise as much as HK$31.54 billion ($4.07 billion) in an initial share sale in Hong Kong, said two people familiar with its plan.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - China said Monday it had put to death nine people involved in deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, the first executions since the violence erupted in July.
China on Monday offered full assistance to Africa in agriculture and infrastructure following its pledge of 10 billion dollars in concessional loans to the continent's states.
Mobile operator China Unicom is displeased with the official launch of Apple's iPhone, according to AFP. The few hundred people who braved the cold and the rain were not satisfied with the new iPhone handset when Unicom unveiled it in Beijing on October 30th.
