China News

The Sina news portal has a headline news story about a speech given by the chairman for the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Nur Bekri, in which he blames the violence in Urumqi over the weekend on Uighur separatist groups outside of China.

The Sohu news portal has a headline news story about a kissing competition which was held in Guangan, Sichuan province, where the second-prize winners were a couple from Chongqing who both kissed and danced simultaneously.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China will keep consistent macro-economic policies, promote structural adjustment, develop new growth sectors, improve growth quality and increase people's livelihood to ensure stable and fast economic growth.

Former Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan on Saturday called for the whole world to work together to seek reforms in financial supervision, boost economic restructuring and build a green economy.

This just happened on the evening of July 5, 2009. At this time , it is know that there is some kind of mass incident.

Asia Pacific News.Net Sunday 5th July, 2009 New Delhi, July 5 : The Chinese mainland confirmed 42 new cases of A/H1N1 influenza till Saturday, bringing the total to 1002.

Beijing's last minute climb-down on its latest Internet-censorship effort this week highlights the possibility that Chinese communist mandarins' main challenge in the future lies not in quelling political dissent, but reigning in its tech-savvy educated elite.

China has no plans to raise its proposal for a new global currency to replace the dollar at the G8 meeting this week but is willing to discuss it, a top Chinese diplomat said, as President Hu Jintao left Sunday for Italy.

Suresh Tendulkar, an economic adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange reserves and hold fewer dollars.

Rainstorms since early the week have swept a wide swathe of south China, leaving dozens people dead or missing and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate.

Chinese authorities have punished six government officials after three baby girls whose parents were still alive were sent to an orphanage in southern China that subsequently put them up for adoption overseas, state media and an official said.

More rain is forecast over the rest of the weekend. Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported.

A Chinese company that owns the trademark "i-phone" has said it is not in talks with Apple, even though Apple may need the company's blessing to sell its similarly named iPhone in China.

This year China is on track to pass the United States as the world's largest market for wind turbines - after doubling wind power capacity in each of the last four years.

NOW that the cause of the fatal accident at the Lotus Riverside apartment complex has been determined, investigations are turning their attention toward assigning blame.

"The Dalai Lama equals non-violence, and without him there would be violence," said Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, a couple of months ago.

More than 900 scholars, experts and representatives from business circle from around the world have gathered in Beijing to discuss remedies for the global financial crisis and the future development of the world economy.

Chinaa s central bank allowed companies to undertake settlement of cross-border trade in the yuan and offered them tax breaks, seeking to reduce the reliance of importers and exporters on the U.S. dollar.

Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the upcoming G8 meeting in Italy as the leader of one of five large developing countries invited to attend.

The Xinhua News Agency reports that flooding in 22 of China's provinces has caused economic damage worth 10.78 billion RMB in this year alone.