BEIJING (Reuters) – China told a visiting Iranian delegation that returning to nuclear talks was a “top priority,” the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, in a meeting highlighting Beijing’s efforts to reduce tensions that could threaten its oil supply.

The delegation, led by Supreme National Security Council deputy secretary Ali Baqeri, visited Beijing as lawmakers in the United States moved to detail punishment of foreign banks that do business with the Iran’s central bank, the clearinghouse for its oil exports.

BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) – China’s fiscal revenues
jumped by a quarter in 2011 to a record 10.37 trillion yuan
($1.64 trillion), China’s Ministry of Finance said on Friday,
leaving Beijing with plenty of financial firepower to help
manage an economic soft-landing.

Although Chinese governments, including Beijing and local
governments, rushed to spend almost 2 trillion yuan in December
alone, China’s full-year fiscal deficit of 519 billion still
fell short of the 900 billion yuan that had been penciled into
the budget in March.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for farmers’ land rights to be protected and criticized a widespread policy of moving villagers into apartment blocks so their land can be merged into larger blocs or developed.

State-backed land grabs are a cause of deep tension across China. Ten days of protests over confiscated farmland and the death of a protest organizer in Wukan in booming Guangdong province in December drew widespread attention as a rebuff to the stability-obsessed government.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone 4S as scheduled.

Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom (0762.HK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) or at official Apple resellers.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the popular iPhone 4S as scheduled.

Apple said later Friday after the botched launch at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the popular iPhone 4S as scheduled.

Apple said later Friday after the botched launch at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.

BEIJING, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Enraged Chinese shoppers
pelted Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and
shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told
the store would not begin sales of the popular iPhone 4S as
scheduled.

Apple said later Friday after the botched launch at its
store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt
all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time
being, but said the phones would be available online, through
its partner China Unicom or at official Apple
resellers.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store was pelted with eggs on Friday when hundreds of enraged shoppers, many of whom had waited in line overnight, were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone 4S as scheduled.

Shoppers and security staff scuffled before daybreak after an announcer with a bullhorn told the surging crowd that the phones would not go on sale and that they should go home.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appealed for Chinese cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation on Wednesday in Beijing, as he sought Chinese help on the White House’s efforts to toughen sanctions on Iran.

Geithner meets with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao later on Wednesday, ahead of Wen’s trip next week to top oil supplier Saudi Arabia, whose additional output will be crucial if China is to replace crude it normally sources from Iran.

BEIJING, Jan 11 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner appealed for Chinese cooperation on nuclear
non-proliferation on Wednesday in Beijing, as he sought Chinese
help on the White House’s efforts to toughen sanctions on Iran.

Geithner meets with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao later on
Wednesday, ahead of Wen’s trip next week to top oil supplier
Saudi Arabia, whose additional output will be crucial if China
is to replace crude it normally sources from Iran.