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China Click Fight Begins as New Year Overwhelms Rail Website

Bloomberg 1/16/2012 10:24:04 AM

Kevin Zhang has enlisted four friends in Beijing to help with possibly hours of mouse-clicking tonight. Their task -- booking his Lunar New Year train tickets.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012»

Bloomberg Chinese Officials Said to Weigh Easing Constraints on Banks

1/19/2012 9:07:02 AM GMT
China is allowing the nation’s five biggest banks to increase first-quarter lending and weighing a plan to relax capital requirements as economic growth cools.

Bloomberg China Said to Consider Easing Lending Constraints, Capital Rules for Banks

1/19/2012 9:07:02 AM GMT
China is allowing the nation’s five biggest banks to increase first-quarter lending and weighing a plan to relax capital requirements as economic growth cools.

Monday, January 16, 2012»

Bloomberg China Click Fight Begins as New Year Overwhelms Rail Website

1/16/2012 10:24:04 AM GMT
Kevin Zhang has enlisted four friends in Beijing to help with possibly hours of mouse-clicking tonight. Their task -- booking his Lunar New Year train tickets.

Sunday, January 15, 2012»

Bloomberg China Mouse-Click ‘War’ Begins as New Year Travel Overwhelms Rail Website

1/15/2012 4:01:00 PM GMT
Kevin Zhang has enlisted four friends in Beijing to help with possibly hours of mouse-clicking tonight. Their task -- booking his Lunar New Year train tickets.

Thursday, January 12, 2012»

Bloomberg China’s Auto-Sales Growth Trails U.S. for First Time in At Least 14 Years

1/12/2012 7:45:00 AM GMT
China’s auto sales slowed last year, trailing growth in the U.S. for the first time in at least 14 years, after the government ended stimulus measures and as the nation’s economic expansion showed signs of easing.

Bloomberg China Trade Triggers $115 Billion Australia Ports, Railway Boom: Freight

1/12/2012 2:12:00 AM GMT
Australia is set for an A$112 billion ($115 billion) infrastructure boom as the nation adds ports and railways to feed China and India’s appetite for coal and iron ore.

Thursday, January 05, 2012»

New York Times U.S. Envoy Asks China to Help Restrain North Korea

1/5/2012 11:32:04 AM GMT
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell called on China to urge the new leadership in North Korea to refrain from military provocations during the transition of power.

Tuesday, January 03, 2012»

BBC China media: Online railway chaos

1/3/2012 3:32:02 AM GMT
Morning newspaper round-up: Chaos over sales of railway tickets for the Spring Festival period - this time on the internet.

Friday, December 30, 2011»

Reuters U.S.-trained China official seen behind blind activist's jailing

12/30/2011 6:25:02 AM GMT
The rising Chinese official who critics say engineered the jailing of the blind legal rights activist Chen Guangcheng, has come a long way from Connecticut, where he studied public policy and claims to have worked as an aide to the mayor of New Haven.

Reuters U.S.-trained Chinese official seen behind blind activist's

12/30/2011 4:52:02 AM GMT
The rising Chinese official who critics say engineered the jailing of the blind legal rights activist Chen Guangcheng, has come a long way from Connecticut, where he studied public policy and claims to have worked as an aide to the mayor of New Haven.

Thursday, December 29, 2011»

Washington Post Chinese netizens criticize limited penalties for 54 officials blamed in deadly train crash

12/29/2011 7:18:01 AM GMT
In hundreds of comments posted online, Chinese Web users complained Thursday the government had picked scapegoats such as a former railway minister, who already had been detained ahead of the accident in a corruption investigation.

Bloomberg China Punishes 54 Officials Over Railway Crash That Sparked Public Outcry

12/29/2011 5:14:05 AM GMT
China pledged to fix design flaws blamed for a high-speed rail crash last July and punish the officials responsible, as the government released the results of an investigation that sought to allay criticism of how the accident was handled.

Bloomberg China Punishes Officials, Orders Improvements After Deadly Train Crash

WSJ French Train China Nuclear Experts

12/29/2011 5:01:00 AM GMT
Already a leading seller of nuclear technology, France is now training nuclear engineers in China's southern Guangdong province, showing how the two nations' nuclear industries are becoming increasingly entwined.

Washington Post Chinese government says design flaws caused bullet train crash, blames 54 officials

12/29/2011 3:48:03 AM GMT
A former railway minister was among 54 officials found responsible for the crash, said the Cabinet report issued Wednesday. Several were ordered dismissed from Communist Party posts but there was no indication anyone would face criminal charges.