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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.




Treasury names U.S.-China point man (AP)

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:49:36 GMT | Yahoo! News

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson addresses the media at the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting in Essen, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. The world's major developed economies are showing solid growth, G-7 finance officials said Saturday, but expressed concern about foreign exchange fluctuations, the rising power of hedge funds and energy supplies. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is setting up a telephone hot-line connecting him directly with the vice premier of China and naming a new deputy to oversee high level talks amid agitation in congressional quarters for a tougher line with Beijing on trade issues.



Bush talks to China's Hu about N. Korea deal (Reuters)

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:34:31 GMT | Yahoo! News

North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye Kwan (C) and his aides clap hands after unseen Chinese envoy Wu Dawei read the details of an agreement during the closing ceremony of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme in Beijing, 13 February 2007.   South Korea agreed to resume high-level talks with North Korea that could restart major aid shipments despite calls for caution over an international deal on Pyongyang's nuclear programmes.(AFP/Pool/Andrew Wong)Reuters - President Bush told Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday that North Korea must live up to its commitments under a deal calling for Pyongyang to take steps toward nuclear disarmament.



China, Japan seek to keep rapprochement on course (Reuters)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:35:30 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in Berlin, September 14, 2006. Japan and China began smoothing the way for a red carpet visit by Wen during talks in Tokyo that began on Thursday, but regional rivalry and friction over their wartime past lurked in the background. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed hope on Friday that a rapprochement in ties with Tokyo would stay on course, but also mentioned the wartime past that haunts relations.



Chinese share prices surge to new record (AP)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:19:05 GMT | Yahoo! News

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, local people choose food for Spring Festival, the annual week-long holiday which marks the Lunar New Year, which begins on Feb. 18, at a market in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Quanlong)AP - Shanghai's benchmark stock index surged past the psychological benchmark of 3,000 to a new record Friday, though share prices later fell back to close only marginally higher amid renewed profit-taking.



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