2008年11月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Lenovo says profit down 78 percent on weaker sales (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 04:00 AM CST

In this Jan 31, 2008 file photo, Chinese customers shop at a Lenovo shop in Beijing, China. Lenovo Group said on Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 its quarterly profit dived 78 percent as the global economic slowdown battered sales, and the PC maker said it will launch a restructuring with possible job cuts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, FILE)AP - Lenovo Group's quarterly profit dived 78 percent as the global economic slowdown battered sales, and the company, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, said it will launch a restructuring with possible job cuts.


China closes herbal drug firm linked to deaths (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:56 AM CST

Reuters - China, battling to restore trust in its products amid a tainted milk scandal, has closed a local pharmaceutical company whose herbal injections have been linked to the deaths of three people.

Traditional medicine passes WHO health checks (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:54 AM CST

Reuters - Health representatives from more than 70 countries gathered in Beijing on Friday to swap ideas on how to make traditional medicine, ranging from acupuncture to leech treatment, more widely available.

UN official hopes for US role in climate change (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:53 AM CST

A Chinese man cycles past chimney of a coal-burning power plant in Shenyang, north China's Liaoning province, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. The head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Friday he hopes the United States will take a more active role in fighting global warming once Barack Obama becomes president in January. (AP Photo)AP - The head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Friday that he hopes the United States will take a more active role in fighting global warming once Barack Obama becomes president.


China shares rise as investors hope for new policy (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:22 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares rebounded Friday, led by financial stocks and refiners, after news reports said the government might create a fund to support prices.

China official ends turbulent Taiwan trip (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:42 AM CST

Chen Yunlin, (L) chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), speaks while Taiwan's top negotiator on China policy, Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman P.K. Chiang listens during the farewell ceremony at the Grand Hotel in Taipei November 7, 2008. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese official left Taiwan on Friday after a turbulent visit that produced landmark trade agreements but also sparked angry protests by thousands opposed to China's claim of sovereignty over the self-ruled island.


Rich nations should ditch 'unsustainable' lifestyles: China's Wen (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:09 AM CST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, seen here, said Friday that rich nations should alter their lifestyles to help tackle global warming, at the start of a two-day meeting on climate change(AFP/File/Sergei Chirikov)AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and a top UN official urged industrialised nations Friday to alter their lifestyles and investment modes as part of efforts to tackle global warming.


China tells rich polluting nations to change lifestyle (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 01:17 AM CST

China's Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of Beijing high-level conference on climate change at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing November 7, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said rich nations must abandon their "unsustainable lifestyle" to fight climate change and expand help to poor nations bearing the brunt of worsening droughts and rising sea levels.


China defends efforts to protect intellectual property rights (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 12:01 AM CST

Policemen walk past a street stall selling pirate discs in Shanghai. China staunchly defended its efforts to protect intellectual property rights Friday, urging Washington to take into account its difficulties as a developing country in tackling copyright breaches(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China staunchly defended its efforts to protect intellectual property rights Friday, urging Washington to take into account its difficulties as a developing country in tackling copyright breaches.


China gives Agricultural Bank $19 billion bailout (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 11:49 PM CST

AP - The Chinese government has given the Agricultural Bank of China a $19 billion bailout in a major step toward restructuring the rural lender as it prepares to issue publicly traded shares.

China aims to land moon-buggy by 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 11:39 PM CST

Spectators watch a Long March 3A rocket carrying the Chang'e One lunar orbiter blasting off, near the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in southwestern Sichuan province. October 24, 2007. (China Daily/Reuters)Reuters - China aims to put an unmanned buggy on the moon by 2012, local media reported on Friday, laying the ground for its greater ambitions of putting a man on the moon.


China envoy's Taiwan trip highlights differences (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 07:42 PM CST

China's top negotiator with Taiwan, Chen Yunlin, center, is escorted by security to his waiting car after being forced to stay for some hours in the Regent Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, early Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Chen was trapped in the hotel during a dinner meeting with ruling party leaders due to a raging protest of over a thousand pro-Taiwan supporters outside the hotel, denouncing his visit. Chen, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), is on a five-day visit to Taiwan. (AP Photo)AP - He stepped off the plane with a mission: Make history by becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Taiwan. Sign a landmark trade deal. Draw the wayward island closer to motherland China.


U.N. torture panel to question China on abuses (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 11:26 AM CST

Falun Gong members carry a banner outside the Chinese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur April 18, 2008. (Zainal Abd Halim/Reuters)Reuters - Rights activists hope that China's appearance before a United Nations torture panel on Friday will shed light on what they say are widespread abuses in the country.


China, after talks, strikes hard line on Tibet (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 06:49 AM CST

AP - A senior Chinese official who met this week with representatives of the Dalai Lama on Thursday ruled out giving Tibet the kind of autonomy that Beijing grants Hong Kong, saying the Tibetan spiritual leader should "face reality."

China stops production at drug company (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 05:17 AM CST

AP - China's drug safety watchdog said Thursday it has stopped all production at a company in northeastern China after an herbal injection it sold was suspected of causing the deaths of three people.

China's Hu going to US but Obama meeting unclear (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 05:17 AM CST

AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao is going to Washington to push Western leaders to give poorer countries a bigger role in global financial institutions, but whether he will meet Barack Obama is still unclear.

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