2008年11月30日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China holds horse betting trial run (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 03:02 AM CST

AP - Organized gambling on horse races has returned to mainland China for the first time since the ruling Communist Party seized power in 1949, state media reported.

China's migrants are a new front in AIDS fight (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:04 AM CST

University students form a large red ribbon during an HIV/AIDS awareness rally ahead of World AIDS day in Shenyang, Liaoning province November 29, 2008. (Stringer - CHINA./Reuters)Reuters - The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.


China may legalize horse betting: state media (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:52 PM CST

File photo shows a jockey leaping over a barricade with his horse at the Beijing Jockey Club in the Chinese capital. China has carried out horse betting on a trial basis, signalling an ambition to restore a form of gambling that was outlawed by the Communists six decades ago, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - China has carried out horse betting on a trial basis, signalling an ambition to restore a form of gambling that was outlawed by the Communists six decades ago, state media reported Sunday.


300 Chinese cab drivers hold strike in south China (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:27 PM CST

AP - About 300 taxi drivers went on strike in a southern Chinese city, smashing cars and demanding a crackdown on unlicensed taxis in the latest protest against illegal taxi competition in China.

Chinese leader says China losing competitive edge (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:07 PM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao, poses at the ancient site of Knossos on the southern Greek island of Crete, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Hu Jintao ends his three-day official visit in Greece after finalizing a USD 1 billion (euro 831.2 million) container-port concession deal. (AP Photo/Stefanos Rapanis, Pool)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao warned that China has started to lose its competitive edge in trade amid the global financial crisis, as he told Communist Party leaders the challenge posed a test to the government's ability to rule, state media reported.


Child in US custody fight adjusts to new country (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 03:48 PM CST

Anna He, third left, plays a board game  with her family, her mother Luo Qin, left, her brother Andy He, right, and her sister Avita He at their home in Chongqing, China, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. This small girl with watchful dark eyes was at the center of one of the longest custody battles in the U.S. in recent times, a high-profile seven-year dispute marked by racial and cultural undercurrents. On one side were the Baker's, a white, churchgoing family living in suburban Memphis, Tenn. On the other were the He's, immigrants scraping by with low-paying jobs before they returned to China. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Nine-year-old Anna He stands quietly amid the chaos in her boarding school dorm on a Sunday night, a frenzy of little girls chattering in Chinese as they change the linens on rows of wooden beds.


Police kill hostage-taker in China store (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 05:38 AM CST

Reuters - Police shot and killed a knife-wielding man who wounded three people and took a nurse hostage in a Carrefour store in southwest China on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Police kill hostage-taking knifeman in Chinese supermarket: state media (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 05:01 AM CST

Chinese police have killed a man who was keeping a nurse hostage after stabbing three customers at a branch of French supermarket giant Carrefour.(AFP Graphic)AFP - Police on Saturday killed a man who was keeping a nurse hostage after stabbing three customers at a branch of supermarket giant Carrefour in China, state media reported.


China: Sarkozy-Dalai Lama meeting threatens trade (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 04:19 AM CST

In this April 27, 2008 file photo, young Chinese protesting against Tibet Independence and calling for a boycott of French retail supermarket Carrefour gather outside one of its branches in Changchun , northeastern China's Jilin province.  Words on red banner reads 'Support China, Support Olympics, Against Tibet Indenendence.' Chinese government backed scholars hinted in remarks printed Saturday, Nov 29, 2008, that business ties with France will likely suffer if French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes ahead with a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama.  (AP Photo/File)AP - Business ties with France will likely suffer if French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes ahead with a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, a leading Chinese government-backed scholar was quoted Saturday as saying.


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