Filed at 7:08 a.m. ET HEGANG, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 87 as hopes dimmed on Sunday that more survivors would be found a day after a gas blast at a colliery in ...Read More
(Changes byline, updates with latest toll) * Blast shook the surrounding area, damaged buildings * Chinese mines the deadliest in the world HARBIN, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped ...Read More
Representatives from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are scheduled to meet today in Brussels to discuss future steps to dissuade Iran from developing the capacity to build nuclear weapons. Our message to the world leaders: If ...Read More
BEIJING — Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed ...Read More
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization for EconomicCooperation and Development doubled its growth forecast for theleading developed economies next year and predicted a furtheracceleration in 2011 as China powers a global recovery.
The economy of the group’s 30 member countries will ...Read More
* Hong Kong shares end lower for third session * Chinese stocks at three-month high as energy counters rise * Debutants Tontine and Longfort post sharp gains (Updates to close) By Jun Ebias and Claire Zhang HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Nov 19 ...Read More
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- It was a happy accident that BarackObama found himself in Beijing on the day the U.S. Senate kickedclimate change legislation into the spring. Obama needs ChinesePresident Hu Jintao’s help to break the U.S. stalemate overglobal warming. ...Read More
HONG KONG, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Shares of Chinese property firmLongfor Properties Co (0960.HK) were indicated 1.8 percent higherahead of their $912 million Hong Kong trading debut on Thursday. The property developer saw its opening price set at HK$7.20,compared with a ...Read More
Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu. One is the leader of a great democracy. The other is the head of a repressive regime. But as the two men faced ...Read More
Delta Air Lines on Wednesday sweetened its offer of financial support to Japan Airlines, the troubled carrier whose links to China and other Asian destinations have made it a potentially valuable prize. At the same time, TPG, brought in as financial ...Read More
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