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New Year celebrations cause 194 Beijing fires

New Year celebrations cause 194 Beijing fires

State media are reporting that people celebrating the Lunar New Year by setting off fireworks in Beijing caused 194 fires in the Chinese capital, double the number from last year.

 

Treasury's Geithner says China needs faster yuan rise

China's yuan currency remains "substantially undervalued" and it is in Beijing's own interest to let it appreciate more rapidly to ward off inflation risks, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday.

 

China to unveil its own large jetliner

China to unveil its own large jetliner

Beijing, which hopes to compete with Boeing and Airbus, will show off a full-scale mockup of its 156-seat passenger plane at an air show next week. It's getting help from some well-known U.S. companies.

 

U.S. backs off in currency dispute with China

U.S. backs off in currency dispute with China

The Obama administration backed away on Friday from a showdown with Beijing over the value of China's currency that would have caused new frictions between the world's only superpower and its largest creditor.

 

Chinese Nobel winner's wife detained

The wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been detained in her apartment in Beijing, China, and is not allowed to see people or use her telephone, a human rights group citing her attorney said Sunday.

 

U.S. set to be a posse of one on China yuan at G20

U.S. set to be a posse of one on China yuan at G20

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faces a lonely campaign to make China's currency a major issue at the next Group of 20 summit as would-be allies shrink from confronting Beijing.

 

LA, Beijing to exchange ideas on solving traffic

LA, Beijing to exchange ideas on solving traffic

Two cities notorious for their choked roads are teaming up to share ideas on how to better manage traffic.

 

Chinese protest against Japan is small but heated

Chinese protest against Japan is small but heated

Marchers outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing rally against the detention of a Chinese fishing crew.

Senh: Just in time for Donnie Yen's new film "Legend of the Fist: the Return of Chen Zhen," which will be released in a week or so in China.

 

China traffic jam stretching 100km enters ninth day

A massive traffic jam in China has slowed vehicles to a crawl for a ninth day near Beijing, local media say. Vehicles, mostly lorries bound for Beijing, are backed up for about 100km (62 miles) because of heavy traffic, road works and break-downs.

 

Tyson Gay upsets Usain Bolt in 100 meters at DN Galan meet

It turns out Usain Bolt can be beaten. From Beijing to Berlin, it seemed that Bolt and his long, turbocharged strides were more ...

 

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