2008年12月12日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China coal fume victim wakes from 10-day coma (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 03:33 AM CST

AP - A girl who survived carbon monoxide poisoning in her north China school dormitory while all 11 of her roommates died has come out of a coma, an education official said Friday.

Chinese shares fall, joining regional rout (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 02:52 AM CST

An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Friday Dec. 12, 2008 in Shanghai, China. Chinese stocks have dropped as investors dumped shares amid mounting pessimism over the government's ability to stave off an economic slump. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 3.8 percent Friday, or 77.47 points, to close at 1,954.21. (AP Photo)AP - Chinese stocks fell in late trading Friday as investors dumped shares amid mounting pessimism over the government's ability to stave off an economic slump.


Pyjama police fight Shanghai's daytime love of nightwear (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:51 AM CST

A woman wearing pyjamas, in an old residential area of Shanghai, where community leaders are trying to break up the love affair of some city residents with walking outside in their pyjamas(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Community leaders in Shanghai are trying to break up the love affair of some city residents with walking outside in their pyjamas, state media reported Friday.


China to give companies aid to cope with crisis (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:46 AM CST

Visitor looks at a passenger car produced by Chery Automobile, one of the China biggest automakers on display at a Auto Trade Expo in Beijing Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. China is rolling out new measures to reverse a worsening economic slump with interest-free loans to companies and possible steps to boost plunging auto sales and aid steelmakers, the industry minister said Friday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China is rolling out new measures to reverse a worsening economic slump with interest-free loans to companies and possible steps to boost plunging auto sales and aid steelmakers, the industry minister said Friday.


China to issue 3G licenses as early as this month (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:36 AM CST

AP - China will issue third-generation mobile phone licenses as early as this month and expects companies to spend 200 billion yuan ($30 billion) on installing equipment, the industry minister said Friday.

Beijing vice hubs back to old tricks as Olympic grip eases (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:28 AM CST

A woman at the doorway of a blue neon-lit barber's shop in Beijing. One of the most notorious symbols of prostitution in Beijing has reopened in another signal that the city's bustling vice industry has roared back to life following an Olympic crackdown.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - One of the most notorious symbols of prostitution in Beijing has reopened in another signal that the city's bustling vice industry has roared back to life following an Olympic crackdown.


Sleepy village which became guinea pig for reform (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 01:19 AM CST

A worker stands beside two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines being assembled at Siemens MR Center located at the Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province in this November 25, 2008 file photo. (Bobby Yip/Files/Reuters)Reuters - Every day a stream of people climb a winding path to the peak of Shenzhen's Lotus Hill where a huge bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping surveys the frenzied economic boomtown he helped create out of nothing almost 30 years ago.


China's November auto sales down 16 percent (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:56 PM CST

AP - China's government is considering ways to support struggling automakers after sales dropped 16 percent in November, the country's industry minister said Friday.

China, Russia vow to step up military ties: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:43 PM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for stronger military ties with Russia in talks with visiting Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, seen here(AFP/File/Yuri Kadobnov)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for stronger military ties with Russia in talks with visiting Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, state media reported.


China's Hu in human rights pledge (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:20 PM CST

President Hu Jintao, seen here, has vowed that China will work with the international community in promoting human rights, state media said Friday, but the promise follows recent arrests of leading activists(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - President Hu Jintao has vowed that China will work with the international community in promoting human rights, state media said Friday, but the promise follows recent arrests of leading activists.


China cheers ethnic Chinese pick for US energy sec (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 11:20 PM CST

This  Jan. 20, 2005 file photo shows Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director Steven Chu in  San Francisco. Democratic officials said Wednesday Dec. 10, 2008 that President-elect Barack Obama has selected Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)AP - China's media are cheering President-elect Barack Obama's pick of Chinese-American Steven Chu for the post of U.S. energy secretary, saying it bodes well for future cooperation between the two countries.


China chooses new site for quake-leveled town (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 09:05 PM CST

Reuters - China has chosen a new site to rebuild the town of Beichuan, where the massive May 12 earthquake killed two-thirds of the population and which the government has decided to leave in ruins as a memorial.

US 'deeply concerned' about reports of arrests in China (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 12:29 PM CST

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (L) and his wife Liu Xia pose for a photograph in Beijing, in 2002. The US State Department said Thursday it is AFP - The US State Department said Thursday it is "deeply concerned" by reports that Chinese rights activists were arrested before the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


Police stay mum on arrest of leading China dissident: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 10:49 AM CST

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (L) and his wife Liu Xia pose for a photograph in Beijing in 2002. Chinese police have failed to inform the family of leading political activist Liu Xiaobo on the reasons for his arrest, his lawyer said Thursday as intellectuals in China called for his release.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese police have failed to inform the family of leading political activist Liu Xiaobo on the reasons for his arrest, his lawyer said Thursday as intellectuals in China called for his release.


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