2008年9月3日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Tibet unrest looms in post-Dalai Lama era (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:36 AM CDT

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama waves as he leaves Lilavati hospital in Mumbai September 1, 2008. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)Reuters - A spell in hospital by the Dalai Lama highlights enormous complexities likely to arise when the 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner does pass away.


Coca-Cola to buy China juice maker for $2.4bln (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 03:28 AM CDT

A man walks past a Coca Cola logo painted on a wall in Venezuela. The US soft drinks giant is planned to buy Chinese juice maker Huiyuan Juice Group in a 2.4-billion-dollar deal that would be its biggest acquisition in China.(AFP/File/Pedro Rey)AFP - Coca Cola moved Wednesday to further strengthen its global reach by announcing plans to buy Huiyuan Juice Group for 2.4 billion dollars, the US soft drink maker's biggest acquisition in China.


China premier warns of winter hardship in quake zone (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 02:08 AM CDT

An earthquake survivor sits outside a rescue disaster tent in a refugee camp in Mianyang city, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan in early June. Premier Wen Jiabao has warned that winter will bring hardship for people in China's quake zone state media has reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Premier Wen Jiabao has warned winter will bring hardship for people in China's quake zone, as he indicated the confirmed death toll from the disaster was over 80,000, state media reported Wednesday.


China reopens major highway destroyed by quake (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 12:29 AM CDT

A teacher takes clothes out from a partially destroyed building at Jiangyi Middle School after an earthquake hit in Yuanmou County, Yunnan province September 2, 2008. China allocated 27 million yuan ($3.95 million) from its central emergency relief fund to the southwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces ravaged by Saturday's 6.1-magnitude quake, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and reported by Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken September 2, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA).  CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.AP - Workers reopened a major highway in southwestern China that was destroyed by a massive earthquake in May, speeding up rebuilding efforts, state media said Wednesday.


China warns of post-quake hardship as winter nears (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 09:24 PM CDT

A resident carries his television out from the debris of his collapsed house after an earthquake hit Nuolazha town of Yuanmou County, Yunnan province, September 1, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - China faces tough tasks rebuilding homes and roads across its earthquake-hit southwest as winter approaches, Premier Wen Jiabao said near the epicenter of the devastating May 12 quake.


Correction: China Tibet Monastery story (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 11:21 AM CDT

AP - In an Aug. 29 story about the reopening of Drepung Monastery in Tibet, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a journalist who visited the region in July and mentioned the monastery in an online posting. The journalist's name is Kathleen McLaughlin, not Catherine McLoughlin.

China allocates nearly four million dollars for Sichuan earthquake (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 10:45 AM CDT

People ride motorbicycles past a collapsed bridge in one of the worst earthquake-hit areas of Yingxiu town in China's southwestern province of Sichuan in June 2008. China allocated nearly four million dollars Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China allocated nearly four million dollars Tuesday in relief funds for a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation's quake-prone southwest, killing 38 people.


US says no clean-energy exports to China affected by controls (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 09:09 AM CDT

The United States does not maintain controls on clean energy exports, US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian said Tuesday, while addressing Chinese concerns over billions of dollars in potential trade.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - The United States does not maintain controls on clean energy exports, a senior American trade envoy said Tuesday, while addressing Chinese concerns over billions of dollars in potential trade.


Iraqi Cabinet approves China oil deal (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 08:47 AM CDT

Workers man a drill at an exploration site in the Longgang gas field in Lishan, in southwest China's Sichuan province. Iraq on Tuesday cleared a plan to develop an oil field by China Petroleum National Corp. at a service fee of six dollars a barrel, giving Beijing a foothold into the world's third largest oil reserves.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AP - Iraq has approved a $3 billion deal with China to develop the al-Ahdab oil field.


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