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China's central bank opens liquidity front in hot money war
SHANGHAI - China's central bank delivered two major surprises to investors this week: it engineered a sharp decline in the yuan against the dollar and at the same time relaxed its tight grip on money markets that had kept interest rates firm.
China swipes back at U.S. in annual rights report
BEIJING - China on Friday accused the United States of widespread human rights abuses, including cyber-surveillance and child labor, in Beijing's annual rebuttal of Washington's criticism of its rights record.
Chinese criticize state firm behind Three Gorges dam over graft probe
BEIJING - A scathing report on corruption at the company that built China's $59-billion Three Gorges dam, the world's biggest hydropower scheme, has reignited public anger over a project funded through a special levy paid by all citizens.
China paves way to charge ally of former security tsar in graft crackdown
BEIJING - A former vice minister of public security and ally of China's retired domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, has resigned from his position as a national lawmaker, state media said, possibly opening the way for criminal charges against him.
China's turbulent Xinjiang weighs anti-terror laws for the first time
SHANGHAI - China's restive far western region of Xinjiang is considering drafting anti-terror laws for the first time, following a string of deadly incidents, a state-run newspaper said on Friday.
Dissident warns China sending spies to U.S. in scholarly guise
WASHINGTON - A prominent Chinese dissident who moved to the United States after being fired by Peking University last year warned on Thursday of the dangers of academic exchanges with China, saying Beijing sent spies as visiting scholars.
U.S. rights report highlights China, Myanmar reforms, abuses
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department noted some positive reforms in Myanmar and China and other parts of Asia in its annual human rights report released on Thursday but said that serious abuses and severe restrictions on basic freedoms persisted.
China's Xi to run Internet security body: state media
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping is to take the reins of a government body for Internet security and aims to turn China into a "cyber power", official state media reported on Thursday, as the country steadily tightens its grip online.
China's official PMI seen hitting eight-month low
BEIJING - China's factory activity likely expanded only slightly in February, a Reuters poll showed, dropping to an eight-month low that would indicate a modest slowdown is continuing.
U.S. envoy tells China, Japan to lower temperature in sea row
BEIJING - China and Japan must ease tension in the disputed East China Sea to avoid severe "unintended consequences", U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Thursday, days before he steps down as Washington's first Chinese-American envoy in Beijing.
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