2008年12月11日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China, Japan, SKorea to tackle financial crisis (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:50 AM CST

AP - The global financial turmoil and the standoff over North Korea's nuclear programs will top the agenda when leaders of South Korea, China and Japan meet this weekend, a senior Seoul official said Thursday.

China's consumer inflation falls to 2-year low (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:50 AM CST

Chart shows year-over-year change in China's consumer price index; 1 c x 3 3/8 in; 46.5 mm x 85.725 mmAP - China's inflation fell to its lowest level in nearly two years as sharp increases in food and energy costs eased, giving Beijing more room to spur growth through spending without igniting price rises.

China shares drop on profit-taking (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:50 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares dropped Thursday on profit-taking despite a decline in inflation and a government pledge to keep economic growth stable in 2009.

Parents of China Southern, China Eastern tighten hold with aid (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:08 AM CST

File photo shows a China Southern Airlines airplane preparing to takes off at Beijing's Capital Airport. The parent firms of two of China's biggest airlines will use the 438 million dollars they each received in government aid to strengthen their stakes in the carriers, statements filed Thursday said.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - The parent firms of two of China's biggest airlines will use the 438 million dollars they each received in government aid to strengthen their stakes in the carriers, statements filed Thursday said.

China expects record travel figures for Lunar New Year (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:46 AM CST

File photo shows travellers queueing at Beijing railway station on the last day of the Chinese New Year holiday. A record 2.3 billion passenger trips are set to be taken in China during the upcoming Lunar New Year period, the country's most important holiday, state media has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A record 2.3 billion passenger trips will be taken in China during the upcoming Lunar New Year period, the country's most important holiday, state media said on Thursday.

China's Pandas face winter food shortages: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:23 AM CST

Giant pandas living in China's southwest quake-ravaged Sichuan province face the risk of starvation this winter due to severe food shortages brought about by massive habitat loss, state media has reported.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Giant pandas living in China's southwest quake-ravaged Sichuan province face the risk of starvation this winter due to severe food shortages, state media reported Thursday.

Drug resistant TB rife in China (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 12:34 AM CST

A Chinese doctor examines an x-ray of a tuberculosis patient at the Beijing Tuberculosis Hospital in a file image. (file/Reuters)Reuters - Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average and almost 10 percent of cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs, a study has shown.

Lawyer says critic in China still in detention (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 12:21 AM CST

AP - A leading writer who joined hundreds of other Chinese activists in signing a statement this week calling for greater freedoms in China remains missing three days after he was detained by police, his wife and lawyer said Thursday.

Lenovo refuses to confirm bid for Brazil PC maker (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:30 PM CST

AP - Lenovo Group said Thursday it is discussing possible acquisitions but the Chinese personal computer maker refused to confirm reports it is bidding for Brazil's biggest PC manufacturer.

China mulls payouts over milk victims: state media (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:00 PM CST

A newborn baby holds onto his mother's finger at a hospital in Beijing. China is considering compensation for families whose babies were killed or sickened by melamine-tainted milk, state media has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China is considering compensation for families whose babies were killed or sickened by melamine-tainted milk, state media said Thursday.

China's economic development sees surge in lifestyle diseases (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:12 PM CST

A patient receiving acupunture treatment is seen at a weight reduction clinic in Tianjin, where diet and exercise like badminton and aerobics supplement their program. China's economic reforms of the past thirty years has given millions of people richer lives but one with unwelcome side effects such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - He Yifan has stayed at a weight loss clinic for more than two months to shed his kilos, one of millions of people in China whose richer lives have led to unwelcome side effects such as obesity.

China "cancer village" pays ultimate price for growth (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 09:11 PM CST

Lv Huilan, 66, a villager, shows her throat after an operation on larynx cancer at her home in Liukuai village of Tianjin municipality December 7, 2008. Once an isolated haven, the Chinese village of Liukuai is now an isolated hell, surrounded by dozens of belching factories that are poisoning its water and air, and slowly killing off its inhabitants -- China's 'cancer village' pays ultimate price for growth. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Once an isolated haven, the Chinese village of Liukuaizhuang is now a tainted hell, surrounded by scores of low-tech factories that are poisoning its water and air, and the health of many villagers.

China considering compensation for milk victims (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:45 PM CST

Reuters - China is considering compensation for victims sickened or killed by toxic infant milk formula, a government spokesman said, following months of contention over stricken families with unmet demands for redress.

Administration refuses to cite China on currency (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 06:04 PM CST

AP - The Bush administration has declined to cite China for manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages against the United States.

German journal prints suggestive Chinese symbols (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 09:43 AM CST

AP - A German academic journal has apologized for printing sexually suggestive text on the cover of its current issue about China.

China marks Human Rights Day with arrests, rights' scandal (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 09:31 AM CST

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (L), seen with his wife Liu Xia in 2002, was the latest dissident to be detained by China in the run up to Human Rights Day. Liu had signed Charter 08, an open letter published online calling for democracy in China and signed by more than 300 intellectuals, dissidents and journalists.(AFP/File)AFP - Wu Zhongbao was in Beijing on Wednesday to petition authorities for the truth behind his mother's death, as the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Chinese protest on human rights anniversary (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:42 AM CST

A Chinese protesters clasps a red cover of the constitution close to her chest as a police officer cordons off the area where protesters show letters detailing their complaints outside of the Foreign Ministry in Beijing Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Two dozen people protested outside the ministry on Wednesday, using the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Two dozen people protested outside China's Foreign Ministry in downtown Beijing on Wednesday, using the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.

Torture widespread, routine in Tibet, report says (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 04:27 AM CST

Buddhist monks stand in the entrance to a temple at the 1000-year-old Tsam Monastery located on a mountain at an elevation of over 4500 metres near the Tibetan city of Shigatse April 26, 2008. (David Gray/Reuters)Reuters - The use of torture in the restless Chinese region of Tibet is widespread and routine and officials regularly ignore legal safeguards supposed to be in place to prevent it, a new report said on Wednesday.

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