Beijing- Police detained nearly 100 people after monks and lay Tibetans attacked a police station in China's western province of Qinghai, state media and Tibetan exiles said on Sunday.

Several hundred people, including about 100 monks from the Ragya monastery, attacked the Gyala township police station in Qinghai's remote Golok (Guoluo) prefecture from Saturday afternoon, the Chinese government's Xinhua news agency said.

Beijing  - Rescuers were searching on Sunday for about 13 miners trapped underground after a coal shaft flooded in the central Chinese province of Hunan, state media reported.

Water flooded into the mine in Hunan's Changning city from around 5 pm on Saturday, the semi-official China News Service quoted local officials as saying.

Police were looking for the mine owners, who failed to report the accident and fled the scene, making it more difficult to establish the exact number of people trapped underground, the agency said.

Beijing - A soldier was shot dead at his sentry post outside a garrison in south-western China by unidentified attackers who ran off with his submachine gun, state media said Friday.

The attackers shot Han Junliang, 18, Thursday evening outside a People's Liberation Army garrison in the city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency quoted local police as saying.

Police and soldiers were jointly combing the city to search for an unknown number of attackers, the agency said.

Beijing - The redundancy of millions of migrants who worked in export-oriented factories in China's affluent south-east could curtail recent economic growth in rural areas, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Friday.

"The recent increase in return migration and subsequent fall in remittances could threaten the important progress made in raising rural living standards," Angel Gurria, the organization's secretary general, told reporters in Beijing.

Beijing - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday urged North Korea and other involved nations to resume the stalled dialogue aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, state media said.

"How to overcome the current difficulties and realize the early resumption of the six-party talks is a subject that all parties are facing together," the semi-official China News Service quoted Hu as telling North Korean Premier Kim Yong Il.

"China is willing to make joint efforts with North Korea and other parties to push forward the six-party talks," Hu said.

Beijing, Mar. 19 : China has rejected Coca-Cola''s plan to acquire beverage maker China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd for 2.4 billion dollars, citing the country''s anti-monopoly law.

According to a China Daily report, the acquisition would have been the largest ever buyout of a Chinese company by a foreign rival.

Chinese government sources were quoted as saying that had the planned takeover gone through, it would have violated the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law.