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Chinese President arrives in Seychelles (AFP)

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:51:42 GMT | Yahoo! News

A member of a Sudanese traditional musical band carries a Chinese flag as men and women welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao. Hu is heading home after completing a 12-day, eight-nation tour of Africa where he spread Beijing's largesse and rejected criticism that China is milking the world's poorest region through unequal trade.(AFP/File/Isam Al-Haj)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the Seychelles at the end of an eight-nation African tour to sign loan agreements with the small Indian Ocean nation.



Financial world braces for huge Chinese investment fund (AFP)

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:53:29 GMT | Yahoo! News

Graphic showing China's climbing foreign exchange reserves January to September 2006(AFP Graphic)AFP - China will send ripples through the financial world when it unleashes an investment company with more money under management than any mutual fund in existence, according to analysts.



China's rich spend big to celebrate Valentine's Day (Reuters)

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:20:35 GMT | Yahoo! News

File photo shows Hong Kong singer Stephy Tang posing during a promotion for upcoming Valentine's Day in Hong Kong, February 8, 2007. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)Reuters - Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine's Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China.




China state media hail President Hu's Africa tour (AFP)

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:28:10 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) arriving 06 February 2007 with his wife Liu Yongqing at the Oliver Tambo international airport in Johannesburg for a three-day visit to South Africa as part of his eight-country African tour(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - China is pursuing a mutually beneficial relationship with Africa, in contrast to the West's colonial exploitation of the continent, state-run press claimed following President Hu Jintao's eight-nation tour.



China's life expectancy to jump: report (Reuters)

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:02:37 GMT | Yahoo! News

A passenger walks on the platform at a railway station in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, February 11, 2007. (Sean Yong/Reuters)Reuters - Average life expectancy in China will jump 13 years to 85 years and all households will be lifted out of poverty by the middle of the century, Chinese academics forecast in a report issued in state media on Monday.



Report: China has no plans for new tests (AP)

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:46:27 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan, pictured in 2006.  China does not plan another anti-satellite test, Gangchuan was quoted as saying, a month after Beijing became the third country to shoot down an object in space.(AFP/File/Valentina Petrova)AP - China has no plans to carry out another test of an anti-satellite weapon, Japan's former defense chief said Monday, citing a conversation with the Chinese defense minister.



From 'Rich List' to jail: Another Chinese millionaire locked up (AFP)

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:07:35 GMT | Yahoo! News

People reading copies of Forbes magazine with the list of China's richest.(AFP/File)AFP - The former head of China's leading sports beverage manufacturer, and until recently a member of the Forbes China Rich List, has been jailed for 15 years for embezzlement, according to state media reports.



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