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21 Nov 09 visit Death toll 'rises to 42' in China mining accident An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed at least 42 workers, state news agency Xinhua said, citing emergency services.
21 Nov 09 visit China mine explosion kills 31 An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.
21 Nov 09 visit China mine explosion kills 11, traps 139 An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.
21 Nov 09 visit Chinese coal mine explosion traps 139 A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has trapped 139 miners and injured an unknown number of people but there were no immediate reports of any deaths.
21 Nov 09 visit 15 dead, 114 trapped ain China mine blast: media A gas explosion at a mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 15 workers and left 114 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said.
21 Nov 09 visit 31 dead, 82 trapped after China mine blast: media An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry.
20 Nov 09 visit China orders more accurate swine flu tallies China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu deaths after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak claimed the true number of fatalities was being covered up.
20 Nov 09 visit US lawmakers threaten China sanctions over currency US lawmakers criticized US President Barack Obama's administration Thursday for not pressuring China enough over its rigid currency as they set the stage for slapping import duties on Chinese goods.
19 Nov 09 visit China ramps up espionage: US study China is sharply stepping up espionage against the US as the rising Asian power grows more sophisticated in cyber warfare and spy recruitment, a report warns.
19 Nov 09 visit World recover 'modest', debt must stop: OECD China, Asia and the United States are pulling the world out of an economic vortex with surprising if "modest" speed, the OECD declared on Thursday.
19 Nov 09 visit World recovery 'modest', debt must stop: OECD China, Asia and the United States are pulling the world out of an economic vortex with surprising if "modest" speed, the OECD declared on Thursday.
18 Nov 09 visit Ramzi loses gold medal for doping Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his Beijing Games 1,500 metres gold medal for doping, Bahrain's Olympic Committee said.
18 Nov 09 visit Obama's message slips in under China's radar BEIJING: Barack Obama's inaugural tour of China achieved no prize policy results but from Beijing's point of view it was worth ''a thousand pounds of gold''.
18 Nov 09 visit Afghan minister denies he pocketed $32m KABUL: The Afghan Minister of Mines accepted a $US30 million ($32 million) bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a US official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
18 Nov 09 visit Obama closes China trip with PM talks, Great Wall US President Barack Obama ended the official part of his trip to China on Wednesday by meeting Premier Wen Jiabao, who emphasised that their two nations were better off as partners, not rivals.
18 Nov 09 visit Obama wraps up China trip with PM talks, Great Wall US President Barack Obama wraps up his trip to China on Wednesday with a mix of diplomacy and sightseeing, meeting Premier Wen Jiabao for a working lunch and visiting the Great Wall.
18 Nov 09 visit Work, sightseeing end Obama's China trip US President Barack Obama is wrapping up his trip to China with a mix of diplomacy and sightseeing, meeting Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting the Great Wall.
17 Nov 09 visit Capital flows to US surge despite dollar weakness Foreign investment for US bonds and other long term investments, including from China, rose beyond expectations despite concerns over the weakness of the dollar, official data showed Tuesday.
17 Nov 09 visit Cyclist to be stripped of Olympic medal Cyclist Davide Rebellin will be stripped of his silver medal won in the road race at last year's Beijing Games because of doping.
17 Nov 09 visit Up, up for Superman, but ObaMao put away BEIJING: With the US President in town, the Chinese Government seems to have adopted a two-track policy towards Barack Obama memorabilia.
17 Nov 09 visit Careful words but no leaps forward BEIJING: The presidents of the world's two most powerful countries have promised to co-operate on pressing challenges, including climate change and Iran's nuclear program.
17 Nov 09 visit Obama vows to co-operate with China The United States and China have agreed to co-operate on a host of issues from climate change to North Korea.
17 Nov 09 visit Obama vows 'positive, cooperative' ties with China The United States and China on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on a host of issues from climate change to North Korea as US President Barack Obama pledged positive and comprehensive ties with Beijing.
17 Nov 09 visit Iran faces 'consequences' in nuclear issue: Obama China and the United States agreed that Iran faced "consequences" if it resisted greater openness on its nuclear programme, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday after talks with China's Hu Jintao.
17 Nov 09 visit Obama, Hu open key talks in Beijing US President Barack Obama is holding talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao over trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan.
17 Nov 09 visit China, US to tackle trade disputes, says Hu China and the United States will work to resolve commercial disputes and jointly oppose trade protectionism, President Hu Jintao said in Beijing after talks with visiting US counterpart Barack Obama.
17 Nov 09 visit Fed seeking to ensure strong dollar: Bernanke The Federal Reserve is striving for a strong dollar to ensure financial stability, chairman Ben Bernanke has said in the face of growing complaints by China and others about the sliding greenback.
17 Nov 09 visit Landslide in northern China kills 23 A massive landslide in northern China has partially buried a village and killed at least 23 people, state media reports.
16 Nov 09 visit CNN reporter held over Obama-Mao T-shirt A CNN correspondent said she was detained by Chinese security guards for two hours for displaying a T-shirt on camera depicting Barack Obama as Mao Zedong.
16 Nov 09 visit China, Taiwan sign financial agreements Taiwan signed three financial memorandums of understanding with China, paving the way for closer cooperation in banking, insurance and securities.
16 Nov 09 visit China applies muzzle to Obama speech BEIJING: Barack Obama championed the cause of open dialogue yesterday in what he had hoped to be the main public event of his first visit to China, but most of mainstream Chinese society may never know.
16 Nov 09 visit Obama arrives in Beijing: AFP photographer US President Barack Obama arrived in Beijing on Monday from Shanghai, for the second leg of his maiden state visit to China, an AFP photographer said.
16 Nov 09 visit US and China can be partners, says Obama US President Barack Obama has declared that the United States and China need not be adversaries, during his official visit to China.
16 Nov 09 visit On the Internet in China, Obama presses for freedom US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and political freedoms as he starred in a live streaming webcast from China on the first day of his visit to the Asian giant.
16 Nov 09 visit Obama takes to the Web to talk to China US President Barack Obama will try Monday to break out of the official constraints of his maiden state visit to China and seek to talk directly to Chinese people in a live dialogue via the Internet.
16 Nov 09 visit Obama to use Web to talk to Chinese US President Barack Obama will use the internet to try to talk directly to Chinese people, during his maiden visit to China.
16 Nov 09 visit Obama: China, US need not be adversaries US President Barack Obama declared on Monday that China and the United States need not be adversaries, in a town hall meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai.
16 Nov 09 visit IMF chief again says Chinese yuan should rise International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday reiterated that a stronger yuan would help bolster China's economy, amid mounting pressure on Beijing to let the currency rise.
15 Nov 09 visit Obama arrives in China for maiden visit US President Barack Obama arrived in China late Sunday for his first visit to the Asian giant -- a three-day mission aimed at convincing Beijing that Washington is its partner, not its rival.
15 Nov 09 visit APEC leaders vow new economic model after crisis Asia-Pacific powers including the United States and China Sunday vowed to overhaul the crisis-stricken world economy, rejecting protectionism and touting plans for a gargantuan free market.
15 Nov 09 visit Chinese churches plead for Obama's help BEIJING: President Barack Obama, scheduled to arrive in China last night, is under pressure to press the Chinese Government to halt a new campaign of "persecution" against the country's flourishing network of unregistered churches.
14 Nov 09 visit APEC to 'drop 50% emission cut target' Asia-Pacific leaders will drop a fixed target for halving greenhouse gas emissions in a final summit statement, a Chinese official says.
14 Nov 09 visit 'Pacific president' has the region in his sights BILLING himself as America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future.
14 Nov 09 visit China detaining dissidents: relatives China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts say.
14 Nov 09 visit 'Pacific' President Obama vows US leadership in Asia Billing himself America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama Saturday said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised an engaged US role in charting Asia's future.
14 Nov 09 visit China's Hu meets with top Taiwan politician: official China's President Hu Jintao met with top Taiwan politician Lien Chan on Saturday, a Chinese official told AFP, in rare talks expected to have covered a landmark trade agreement.
14 Nov 09 visit 'Pacific' President Obama vows full US role in Asia Billing himself America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future.
14 Nov 09 visit Obama hails China's expanded role President Barack Obama says he welcomes a robust China on the world scene, but he cautioned that all nations must respect human rights.
13 Nov 09 visit China shuts bogus swine flu masks firm A company in northern China that claimed its face masks could prevent swine flu has been shut down and ordered to recall the product, a safety watchdog said.
13 Nov 09 visit How a complaint led to an ordeal in a secret prison Liu Yuhong's family had a quarrel with their landlord. Now her parents are in a re-education camp and she miscarried after being beaten in a ''black jail'', writes John Garnaut in Beijing.

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