2008年11月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China trade surplus up but export growth weaker (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:32 AM CST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers transfer jeans in a factory on Nov. 4, 2008 in Fumian city of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Fumian was titled 'the world's capital of trousers' for holding more than 1,000 clothing factories, producing about 600,000 pairs of trousers a day, Xinhua said. China's trade surplus has soared 30 percent in October to US$35.2 billion, a new high for a third straight month. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhu Xiang)AP - China's trade surplus set to a new record in October but export growth weakened, adding to pressure on the economy as Beijing launches a multibillion-dollar stimulus package, according to data reported Tuesday.

China: Protecting domestic economy is top priority (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:16 AM CST

AP - China's government indicated Tuesday it would resist pressure to contribute to a global bailout fund, saying that ensuring the country's economic stability is the most important step it can take to tackle the financial crisis.

China hits out at Indian Foreign Minister's border comments (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:49 AM CST

Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, pictured here in October, 2008. China objected strongly on Tuesday to comments by Mukherjee in which he rejected Chinese claims over a border region long disputed by the two giants.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)AFP - China objected strongly on Tuesday to comments by India's foreign minister in which he rejected Chinese claims over a border region long disputed by the two giants.

China shares fall as stimulus plan optimism wanes (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:44 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares fell Tuesday as optimism about the government's multibillion dollar stimulus package gave way to renewed caution about the economy and profit-taking, with losses led by financial stocks and other heavyweights.

Dalai Lama still wants talks with China: aides (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:05 AM CST

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets followers in Tokyo, on November 6. The Dalai Lama believes dialogue with Beijing is the only way to resolve the deadlock over Tibet, despite the failure of the latest talks with Chinese officials, aides said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - The Dalai Lama believes dialogue with Beijing is the only way to resolve the deadlock over Tibet, despite the failure of the latest talks with Chinese officials, aides said Tuesday.

China confirms visit by former Thai PM Thaksin (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:46 AM CST

Beijing confirmed on Tuesday that ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, seen here, had been in China recently as he seeks a new home following Britain's decision to revoke his visa(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Beijing confirmed on Tuesday that ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra had been in China recently as he seeks a new home following Britain's decision to revoke his visa.

China National Games stadium catches fire again (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:34 AM CST

Firemen try to put out a fire at an indoor stadium in Jinan, Shandong province November 11, 2008. (China Daily/Reuters)Reuters - A second fire in four months engulfed the indoor stadium that is being built for next year's 11th China National Games in the eastern city of Jinan, state media reported on Tuesday.

China's inflation at 17-month low, leaving room for rate cuts (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:49 AM CST

A shopping mall in Hong Kong. China's inflation rate was 4.0 percent in October, down from 4.6 percent in September, the government said(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - China's inflation rate hit a 17-month low, official data showed Tuesday, leaving greater room for cutting interest rates at a time when the global crisis has made economic growth the top priority.

China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:19 AM CST

A baby takes a drink as he waits outside a children's hospital in Beijing in late September. A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media has reported.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media reported Tuesday.

China police chief arrests 48 relatives (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 12:35 AM CST

Reuters - A police chief in a remote county of southwestern China has taken down 48 of his relatives for various crimes including brothers, cousins and a number of his wife's family, local media said on Tuesday.

China jails security officers for fatal beating (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 09:45 PM CST

Reuters - China has jailed four security officers involved in beating to death a man who filmed them clashing with villagers over a rubbish dump, local media reported on Tuesday.

China's October inflation eases to 4 percent (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 08:19 PM CST

AP - China's government says consumer inflation fell in October to 4 percent, easing pressure on the authorities to control price rises as it launches a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package.

6 months on, quake rebuilding challenges China (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 01:04 PM CST

Children receives winter clothes donated by a group of volunteers as they line up preparing to leave the temporary school near the quake hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province in China, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Nov. 12 marks the sixth month anniversary for the Sichuan earthquake, local government officials say some 8,000 people are still living in tents but the goal is to move them into temporary housing by the end of November, ahead of winter. More than 600,000 people are currently living in the pre-fabricated housing units. The massive May 12 earthquake that hit Sichuan province left nearly 70,000 dead and another 18,000 listed as officially missing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Sealed off by guards and a chain-link fence ringed with barbed wire, the moment when an earthquake ripped through this region and destroyed Beichuan remains perfectly preserved.

China skirts UN's questions on its torture record (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 12:04 PM CST

AP - China refused Monday to answer questions from a U.N. human rights panel about the alleged torture and disappearance of dissidents, or provide official figures on the mistreatment of detainees in its prisons.

Chinese emperor's lavish quarters are restored (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 08:25 AM CST

A Chinese performer plays traditional music on the stage of an theater inside Juanqinzhai, a newly restored 18th-century royal studio, while visitors record and listen in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - In between dispatching armies to secure the empire and building China into the richest country in the world, the Qianlong Emperor commissioned a retirement home for himself in the Forbidden City palace.

Cholera quarantine lifted at Chinese university (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 05:05 AM CST

AP - A southern Chinese university hit by a cholera outbreak lifted a weeklong quarantine Monday, with students returning to class and the campus reopening to visitors, a state news agency reported.

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