Mar
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AP - Organizers appealed Monday for patience from the expected 70 million visitors to Shanghai’s World Expo, which opens in under two months, because not all of them will be able to see the most popular pavilions.
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Mar
9
Reuters - Sweden has sentenced a Uighur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed Monday.
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Mar
9
AP - China’s passenger car sales climbed 55 percent from a year earlier in February, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and sport utility vehicles, an industry group reported Tuesday.
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Mar
9
Talk of China giving up on dollar is nonsense: banker (Reuters)
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Reuters - Any speculation that China might stop supporting the dollar in the next few years is absolute nonsense, a top state banker said.
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Mar
9
Iran says hopes China won’t bow to sanctions pressure (Reuters)
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Reuters - Iran said on Tuesday it hoped China would not give in to pressure to agree to new sanctions that the United States and its allies hope to win U.N. approval for over its nuclear program.
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Mar
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AP - China’s banks might face risks if finance arms set up by local governments to invest in real estate and infrastructure projects cannot repay heavy borrowing, a deputy central bank governor said Monday.
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Mar
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AP - China’s top lawmaker said Tuesday that legislative priorities this year would be to improve social security and promote more equitable economic development, but he rejected calls to open up the political system.
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Mar
9
China cautions against expecting fast yuan rise (Reuters)
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Reuters - Any rise in the yuan’s exchange rate will be gradual, China’s trade chief said on Monday in comments that underline the competing interests at the heart of Chinese policy-making.
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Mar
9
AFP - China Southern Airlines, the nation’s biggest carrier by fleet size, said Tuesday it plans to raise 10.75 billion yuan (1.6 billion dollars) to repay bank loans and replenish its capital.
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Mar
9
AP - After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country.
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