2008年11月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Taiwan's leader, Chinese envoy meet amid protests (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 03:03 AM CST

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, right, shakes hands with top Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin at the Taipei guesthouse, Thursday, Nov. 6, in Taipei, Taiwan. Chen is the highest-level Chinese official to visit Taiwan in nearly 60 years since the two sides split amid civil war. Hundreds of supporters of Taiwan's pro-independence opposition staged a demonstration outside the venue, saying they fear the island's sovereignty may be compromised. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)AP - Taiwan's president and the most senior Communist Chinese official to ever visit the island held a brief but historic meeting Thursday, capping what the Taiwanese leader described as a successful trip even as anti-China protesters battled police outside.


China rejects 'semi-independence' for Tibet: state media (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:56 AM CST

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at a press event in Tokyo on November 3. A senior Chinese official has told envoys of the spiritual leader in Beijing that even AFP - A senior Chinese official told envoys of the Dalai Lama in Beijing that even "semi-independence" for Tibet was out of the question, Chinese state media said Thursday.


Agricultural Bank of China receives 19-billion-dollar bailout (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:42 AM CST

A woman cyclist passes a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China on October 22 in Beijing. The lender has said it has signed an agreement for a US$19billion government cash injection as it took a decisive step in its preparations for an eventual stock listing.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China said it signed an agreement Thursday for a 19-billion-dollar government cash injection as it took a decisive step in its preparations for an eventual stock listing.


Chinese stocks resume slide amid regional slump (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 02:35 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares resumed their slide Thursday as regional markets followed declines overnight on Wall Street. Miners and financials led the drop.

Taiwan's Ma meets China envoy as thousands protest (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 01:54 AM CST

A Democratic Progressive Party supporter shouts during a protest against Chen Yunlin, Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou near the Presidential Office in Taipei November 6, 2008. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)Reuters - Taiwan's president met briefly on Thursday with a Chinese official in one of the highest-level contacts between the two sides since the Chinese civil war, while thousands of protesters clashed with riot police outside.


China flexes military hardware muscle (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 12:56 AM CST

A visitor passes advertising for a Chinese-made attack aircraft at the China Airshow 2008 in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on November 5. The country's unprecedented display of military hardware at its key airshow has served as a warning to industry rivals of its global ambitions as a defence manufacturer, analysts have said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China's unprecedented display of military hardware at the country's primary airshow was a warning to industry rivals of its global ambitions as a defence manufacturer, analysts said.


China points finger at foreign milk products (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 12:46 AM CST

Staff members of the local quality supervision bureau empty tainted milk power packets at a garbage dump site in Shenzhen, Guangdong province in this September 19, 2008 file photo. (Stringer/Files/Reuters)Reuters - China, embroiled in a tainted milk scandal that has made thousands of infants sick, has published a list of foreign companies that failed to meet quality standards for imported products ranging from milk powder to rosewater.


Five dead as truck targets crowd outside China school: state media (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 10:36 PM CST

Five people, mostly students, have been killed and about 20 others injured after a man intentionally drove a truck into a crowd outside a high school in southern China, state media have reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Five people, mostly students, were killed and about 20 others injured after a man intentionally drove a truck into a crowd outside a high school in southern China, state media reported Thursday.


China to spend $146 bln on quake reconstruction (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 09:41 PM CST

The head of a destroyed statue lies on the ground in a garden in Hanwang town of earthquake-hit Mianzhu county, Sichuan Province, June 12, 2008, a month after the May 12 earthquake, which killed close to 70,000 according to the latest count. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - China will spend 1 trillion yuan ($146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the Sichuan earthquake, local media reported on Thursday, citing the country's top planning agency.


4 people killed after truck driver rams students (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 08:51 PM CST

AP - State media says a truck driver killed 4 people and injured 20 by driving into a crowd of high school students coming out of class in southern China.

Teens killed when man drives truck into China school (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 06:17 PM CST

Reuters - At least four people were killed and 20 injured when a man seeking revenge for a traffic dispute with police drove his truck into a crowded schoolyard in southern China, the Xinhua news agency said late Wednesday.

China sentences 55 Tibet protesters over riots (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 12:21 PM CST

The Potala Palace, left, is seen after a snow in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. China has so far sentenced 55 people to jail terms for their roles in anti-Chinese government riots that broke out in Tibet in March, state media reported, as another round of strained talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and the Chinese government is believed to be under way. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - The Chinese government has sentenced 55 people in connection with deadly riots in March protesting Beijing's rule over Tibet, state media reported late Tuesday.


China vows closer Latin American ties ahead of Hu visit (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 10:31 AM CST

China vowed closer trade, energy and military ties with Latin American and Caribbean countries in a policy paper released on Wednesday ahead of a planned trip to the region by President Hu Jintao, seen here in October 2008.(AFP/POOL/File/Michael Reynolds)AFP - China vowed closer trade, energy and military ties with Latin American and Caribbean countries in a policy paper released on Wednesday ahead of a planned trip to the region by President Hu Jintao.


China commissions huge telescope near Beijing (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 06:34 AM CST

Reuters - China is commissioning a strangely shaped telescope in the forested hills northeast of Beijing that Chinese scientists said will be the world's most efficient tool for mapping the galaxy in three dimensions.

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