China Articles

Washington Post - SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by. "Come take a ...

International Herald Tribune - BEIJING : China's consumer prices jumped 6.2 percent in September on higher food costs and the government will consider tightening monetary policy and investment curbs in response, an official said Thursday. September's inflation rate was down ...

Seattle Times - BEIJING — A fire at an unlicensed shoe factory killed 37 people and injured more than a dozen, Chinese authorities said Monday, one of the deadliest industrial accidents this year in a country plagued with dangerous workplaces. The fire started ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Europe's trade deficit with China jumped 25 percent to a record in the seven months through July, increasing tensions over the weakness of the yuan ahead of a meeting of the Group of Seven nations tomorrow. Imports from China ...

MSN UK News - China might not have a permanent presence in space yet, but the country's rocket men are already thinking about setting up a Communist Party branch in the outer reaches. Now 14-strong, the Chinese astronaut corps more than meets the party's minimum ...

ESPN.com - BEIJING, Oct 18 (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has decided to move China's World Cup qualifier against Myanmar in Yangon to a third country. The Oct. 28 preliminary for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa would instead be played ...

Forbes - BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Chinese companies, including Yunnan Power Grid Corp and the China Power Investment Corporation (CPI), are at the center of new plans to dam the Irrawaday River in neighboring Myanmar, a local pressure group said. Yunnan Power ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Raising the possibility of arbitrage between Chinese and Hong Kong stocks is like waiving a red flag in front of a bull. Companies whose shares trade in both locations routinely cost more on the mainland's markets, in Shanghai ...

CBS News - (AP) Communist Party delegates on Thursday reviewed candidates for committees that will determine China's leadership and influence policy-making for the next five years. Meanwhile, intense speculation continued over new appointments resulting from ...

Reuters UK - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union may take a tougher stance towards China over its growing trade surplus with the bloc if Beijing continues to ignore calls to open up more to foreign exporters and investors, the EU executive said on Thursday ...