International Business News - CHINA http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The United States and China are headed for a possible clash over currency as they open wide-ranging talks on the future of their economic relations. U.S. officials say Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will press Beijing to let its yuan rise against the dollar to ease trade tensions at the two-day Strategic Economic Dialogue starting Thursday. American companies contend that China keeps the yuan undervalued, giving its exporters an unfair advantage and adding to its swollen trade surplus. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/us-china-headed-for-possible-currency-clash.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:37:19 EST China plans to send additional police liaisons to countries facing major terror threats in a bid to boost cooperation with local security forces and head-off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/chinese-police-to-dispatch-anti-terror-liaisons.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:59:08 EST Chinese stocks rose in active trading Wednesday after Wall Street gained and a government fund announced a large purchase of shares in a major state-owned commercial bank. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-stocks-rise-on-government-support.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:56:56 EST A Chinese AIDS activist said Wednesday that she was forcibly taken back to her rural home after participating in World AIDS Day in Beijing. Li Xige, who is HIV positive, said she had managed to escape house arrest in her rural town, but that local police tracked her to Beijing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/chinese-aids-activist-taken-home-by-police.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:35:35 EST Requirements that Internet cafes in a southern Chinese city install Chinese-developed operating systems are raising new concerns over cyber snooping by authorities, a U.S. government-funded radio station reported Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-internet-cafes-switching-to-chinese-os.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:28:35 EST Beijing praised Nepal on Wednesday for banning anti-China protests by Tibetan exiles earlier this year and detaining demonstrators, actions that helped bring the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187718-nepal-china.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-praises-nepal-for-stopping-tibetan-protests.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-praises-nepal-for-stopping-tibetan-protests.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:12:29 EST A decline in the Chinese currency's value against the U.S. dollar after months of hovering in a narrow range is threatening to bring the long-simmering issue to full boil as U.S.-China economic talks get under way in Beijing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-currency-issue-heating-up-on-eve-of-us-talks.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:51:40 EST China's sovereign wealth fund, which last year poured $5 billion into Morgan Stanley, is reluctant to plow more money into foreign banks until governments hash out coherent policies to cope with the global economic and financial turmoil, the fund's head said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/china-reluctant-to-invest-in-foreign-banks.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:17:41 EST China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/chinese-police-to-dispatch-anti-terror-liasons.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:42:01 EST China's sovereign wealth fund, which last year poured $5 billion into Morgan Stanley, is reluctant to plow more money into foreign financial institutions until governments hash out coherent policies to cope with the global economic and financial turmoil, the fund's head said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-reluctant-to-invest-in-foreign-banks.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:53:06 EST China is keeping mum on whether it plans to reduce its trade with France in retaliation for a planned meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Beijing's foe, the Dalai Lama. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187343-czech-republic-dalai-lama.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-mum-on-impact-of-sarkozy-dalai-lama-meeting.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-mum-on-impact-of-sarkozy-dalai-lama-meeting.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:50:08 EST The Hong Kong government says it has found excessive amounts of the industrial chemical melamine in another batch of eggs from mainland China. A statement late Tuesday said the government found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in the eggs from the northeast China's Jilin province. Hong Kong's legal limit is 2.5 ppm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/hong-kong-finds-more-melamine-tainted-chinese-eggs.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:47:10 EST Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, preparing for his final round of economic talks with China, said Tuesday that Beijing must keep letting its currency rise in value against the dollar to help ease trade tensions with the United States. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/paulson-urges-chinese-to-continue-currency-reforms.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:13:49 EST Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its choking cities, shrinking water resources and increasingly flooded lowlands. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187233-smog.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/ex-bad-boy-china-praised-at-climate-talks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/ex-bad-boy-china-praised-at-climate-talks.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:24:37 EST Chinese shares were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street's sharp overnight decline, with food processors up following a lifting of price controls but banks down on economic jitters. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-shares-mixed-amid-global-losses.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:13:39 EST Chinese authorities are investigating an attack in which assailants allegedly pulled members of a Belgian television crew from their vehicle, beat them and took their notes and money, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-investigates-attack-on-foreign-journalists.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:58:18 EST Eleven girls died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a school in northern China's Shaanxi province, an education official said Tuesday evening. A news report said the girls had lit a fire to keep warm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/report-11-girls-die-of-poisoning-at-china-school.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:23:35 EST China has dramatically raised the toll from its tainted milk powder scandal, saying six babies likely died and 300,000 were sickened, figures that back up months of complaints from parents and show the government is beginning to acknowledge the scale of the crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/187223-china-tainted-milk.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-6-babies-may-have-died-from-tainted-milk.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-6-babies-may-have-died-from-tainted-milk.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:55:43 EST China said Tuesday it is looking forward to working with President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, welcoming Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/china-to-work-with-obamas-national-security-team.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:27:46 EST China's Health Ministry said six babies may have died after consuming tainted milk powder, up from a previous official toll of three, and announced a six-fold increase in its tally of infants sickened in the scandal--to nearly 300,000. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081201/china-6-babies-may-have-died-from-tainted-milk.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:53:24 EST