2008年8月27日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

PetroChina says 1H net profit fell 35 pct (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 05:55 AM CDT

AP - PetroChina's first-half net profit fell 34.5 percent, the oil company said Wednesday, amid rising losses in its refining business mainly due to Chinese domestic price controls.

Russia reaches out to China as West fumes over Georgia (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 04:57 AM CDT

Russia has formally recognised the Georgian rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states in a new challenge which angered the Western powers.(AFP iactiv)AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was to meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday, as Moscow looked to bolster support in a diplomatic stand-off with the West over its conflict with Georgia.

Police, money silence protests over China quake school deaths (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 01:42 AM CDT

The mother a teenage student who died in Sichuan's May 12 earthquake, holds a photograph of her daughter in Juyuan, southwestern China in early June. Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in the earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests, locals have said.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests, locals said.

Bank of China denies aiding terrorists (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 12:10 AM CDT

AP - A major state-owned Chinese bank on Wednesday denied accusations in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles that it transferred money to terrorist groups and said it would fight the case.

China Mobile says Q2 profit up (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 11:57 PM CDT

Workers man a China Mobile relay station near the Qinghai-Tibet railway July 3, 2006. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)Reuters - China Mobile (0941.HK), the world's largest wireless operator, posted a 51 percent rise in quarterly profit on strong subscriber growth, but faces new competition in China's revamped telecoms sector.

Dissident released after 16 years in jail in China (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 11:50 PM CDT

AP - A veteran democracy advocate has been released by Chinese authorities after serving 16 years in prison, according to a human rights group.

China's Bank of Communications to open branch in San Francisco (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 11:25 PM CDT

A man passes in front of China's Bank of Communications in Beijing. The financial group has said it plans to set up its second branch in the United States, as it moves to expand overseas(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's Bank of Communications said Wednesday it plans to set up a branch in San Francisco, its second branch in the United States, as it moves to expand overseas.

Clothes for China quake victims go unwanted: state media (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 11:14 PM CDT

A woman sits outside a tent in the Qingyang camp for homeless earthquake victims in Chengdu, in Sichuan province in late May. Mountains of clothes donated to victims of the devastating earthquake are being auctioned off, recycled into mops or left in warehouses because no-one wants them, state press has reported.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Mountains of clothes donated to victims of China's devastating earthquake are being auctioned off, recycled into mops or left in warehouses because no-one wants them, state press reported Wednesday.

Bank of China denies terror allegations (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 10:55 PM CDT

Pedestrians outside the head offices of the Bank of China in Beijing. One of China's largest state-owned commercial lenders has denied it facilitated terrorism, responding to accusations in a US lawsuit filed by a group of Israelis.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Bank of China, one of the nation's big four state-owned commercial lenders, Wednesday denied it facilitated terrorism, responding to accusations in a US lawsuit filed by a group of Israelis.

16 killed in chemical plant blasts in China (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 09:13 PM CDT

In this photo released by the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, smoke rises as rescue operation goes on at the exploded chemical plant on the outskirts of Yizhou City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Tuesday August 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhou Hua)AP - Explosions ripped through a chemical plant Tuesday in southwest China killing at least 16 people and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents.

China chemical plant blast death toll rises to 16 (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 06:21 PM CDT

A worker is rescued after a blast at a chemical plant in Yizhou city of China's Guangxi province, Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Explosions ripped through a chemical plant Tuesday in southwest China, killing at least 16 people, injuring dozens and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents, the official Xinhua News Agency said. No further information is available on the worker. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)Reuters - The death toll from a series of explosions which ripped through a chemical plant in southern China has risen to 16 after rescuers found five more bodies, state media said on Wednesday.

US questions China at WTO over pork, farm taxes (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 07:19 AM CDT

AP - The United States has challenged China to justify the legality of its tax, subsidy and export rules for farm products such as pork and wheat in what could signify new tensions between the two trading giants.

Report: China tobacco merger to create No. 4 maker (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2008 06:06 AM CDT

AP - Two Chinese tobacco companies are merging to form the world's fourth-largest cigarette producer by volume, a financial newspaper reported Tuesday.

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