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Booming shares boost China's super-rich, Forbes says

Booming shares boost China's super-rich, Forbes says
AFP - Thursday, November 5

SHANGHAI (AFP) - - The sharp rebound in Chinese stocks has seen the total fortune of the nation's ultra-wealthy balloon by 141 billion dollars, Forbes magazine said Thursday as it released its annual China rich list. More »

  • Search ends for Russians buried in China avalanche

    AP - Thursday, November 5

    BEIJING - China's state news agency says rescuers have suspended their search for a pair of Russian adventurers buried a week ago in an avalanche in southwestern China.

  • Dalai Lama relative joins Communist Party: state media

    Dalai Lama relative joins Communist Party: state media

    AFP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING (AFP) - - A relative of the Dalai Lama has joined China's ruling Communist Party, state media reported on Wednesday.

  • Outrage at photo of naked woman in China prostitute bust

    Outrage at photo of naked woman in China prostitute bust

    AFP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING (AFP) - - A photo showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the Internet, where it has been widely circulated.

  • Obama's brother emerges in China with novel

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 4

    By James Pomfret

  • Obama's half-brother speaks of their abusive father

    Obama's half-brother speaks of their abusive father

    AFP - Wednesday, November 4

    GUANGZHOU, China (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama's half-brother Mark Ndesandjo Wednesday broke his silence to speak of their abusive father at the launch of his first novel.

  • Beijing gives frosty reception to man-made snowstorm

    Beijing gives frosty reception to man-made snowstorm

    AFP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING (AFP) - - Government scientists in Beijing have been pilloried for inducing a recent heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and left city residents shivering, state media said Wednesday.

  • Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    GUANGZHOU, China - President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel _ the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

  • China's military making strides in space: US general

    AFP - Wednesday, November 4

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - China's military has made dramatic progress in space over the past decade and the goals of its program remain unclear, a top American general said.

  • Chinese official: Syphilis boom driven by economy

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    GENEVA - China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday.

  • First foreigner dies from swine flu in China

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING - State media say a 32-year-old Russian man has become the first foreigner to die from swine flu in mainland China.

  • Beijing says Dalai Lama shows anti-China bias

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING - China said it expressed grave concern to India about a visit by the Dalai Lama to a state in the country's northeast at the heart of a long-running border dispute, saying it showed an anti-China bias.

  • China ramps up anti-terror fight in Muslim region

    AP - Wednesday, November 4

    BEIJING - Police in China's far west have launched a crackdown on terrorism and stepped up a hunt for suspects who took part in deadly ethnic riots there four months ago, the regional public security ministry said Tuesday.

  • China police chief urges harsher Internet controls

    China police chief urges harsher Internet controls

    AFP - Tuesday, November 3

    BEIJING (AFP) - - China's police chief has called for a reinforced nationwide Internet security system, in the nation's latest effort to oversee the activities of the world's largest online population.

  • China won't pressure North Korea: think-tank

    China won't pressure North Korea: think-tank

    AFP - Tuesday, November 3

    SEOUL (AFP) - - North Korea's military provocations this year angered its ally China but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, an influential think-tank said Tuesday.

  • China launches "strike hard" crackdown in restive west

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 3

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese forces have launched a "strike hard" security campaign in the restless far western region of Xinjiang, vowing to wipe out lawlessness and "change the face" of the public security situation there.

  • China military recruiters target college graduates

    AP - Tuesday, November 3

    BEIJING - China is hoping to ease employment pressures from a flood of new college graduates by recruiting more of them into the military.

  • China protest halts Bangladesh Tibet exhibition

    China protest halts Bangladesh Tibet exhibition

    AFP - Tuesday, November 3

    DHAKA (AFP) - - Bangladeshi police in the capital Dhaka closed a photography exhibition on Tibet following complaints from Chinese diplomats, the government and organisers said Monday.

  • China chief says space arms inevitable: state media

    China chief says space arms inevitable: state media

    AFP - Monday, November 2

    BEIJING (AFP) - - A top China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an "historical inevitability", state media said Monday, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to weaponising outer space.

  • China rushes to clean up oil spill on Yangtze

    China rushes to clean up oil spill on Yangtze

    AFP - Monday, November 2

    BEIJING (AFP) - - Authorities in China rushed to clean up an oil spill at the mouth of the Yangtze River after an Iranian-registered ship ran aground in bad weather, state media said Monday.

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