BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s dwindling band of pro-democracy dissidents believe awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their own could bring change to the world’s most populous country, his wife told Reuters.

Liu Xiaobo, jailed in 2009 for 11 years for subversion, won the prize for his decades of non-violent struggle for human rights, putting China’s rights record in the spotlight at a time when the world’s most populous nation is starting to play a bigger role on the global stage.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will try its best to block a Nobel Peace prize for jailed Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo, his wife told Reuters ahead of the Nobel Committee’s announcement on Friday.

Liu is considered one of the front-runners for the prize, although the Nobel Committee often confounds expectations. Czech politician and former dissident Vaclav Havel is one of those pushing for Liu to win the prize.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The disgraced president of a Chinese state-owned enterprise has been jailed for 20 years for leaking state secrets in connection with a bid for foreign-made nuclear reactors, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

The harsh sentence for Jiang Xinsheng came five months after a Shanghai court sentenced a China-born Australian national who headed Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations in China and three Chinese colleagues to prison terms ranging from seven to 14 years for stealing commercial secrets and taking bribes.

BEIJING, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Beijing is considering
restructuring China Investment Corp (CIC), its $300 billion
sovereign wealth fund, in a bid to boost accountability, two
sources with knowledge of the plan said.

The proposed reorganisation, which is bound up with
maneuvering among China’s political power brokers ahead of the
Communist Party’s five-yearly congress in 2012, could result in a
sharper focus by CIC on its overseas portfolio.

SEOUL (Reuters) — China is lobbying neighbors to sign up to a road map for renewed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il is visiting China amid conciliatory words and threats of atomic “holy war.”

The details of Beijing’s plan for restarting stalled six-party nuclear talks came from a South Korean diplomatic source, who spoke on Saturday after discussion in Seoul with Wu Dawei, China’s top envoy in the talks.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese executive once touted as the future head of steelmaker Shougang was jailed for leaking commercial secrets to employees of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto who have since been jailed, a court official said on Thursday.

The Rio Tinto case strained ties between China and Australia and created jitters among foreign investors wary of Beijing’s sweeping definitions of what constitutes a secret.

BEIJING, Aug 5 (Reuters) – A Chinese executive once touted as
the future head of steelmaker Shougang was jailed for leaking
commercial secrets to employees of Anglo-Australian miner Rio
Tinto who have since been jailed, a court official said on
Thursday.

The Rio Tinto case strained ties between China and Australia
and created jitters among foreign investors wary of Beijing’s
sweeping definitions of what constitutes a secret.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese executive once touted as the future head of steelmaker Shougang was jailed for leaking commercial secrets to employees of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto who have since been jailed, a court official said on Thursday.

The Rio Tinto case strained ties between China and Australia and created jitters among foreign investors wary of Beijing’s sweeping definitions of what constitutes a secret.

BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) – Soldier, scriptwriter and now
chairman of a bank with assets worth more than India’s annual
economy, Xiang Junbo is guiding Agricultural Bank of China’s
(601288.SS: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) record-breaking IPO to a close. [ID:nTOE66D07M]

Xiang took over the reins of the country’s third-largest
lender by assets three years ago, when it was considered to be
almost insolvent.