2008年12月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China likely to miss energy saving goal for 2008: report (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 02:36 AM CST

Workers install an electrical pylon in the southwestern province of Sichuan. China is likely to miss an energy saving target that it has set itself for this year, state media reported Saturday, citing the nation's top economic planning agency(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China is likely to miss an energy saving target that it has set itself for this year, state media reported Saturday, citing the nation's top economic planning agency.


German bourse opens office in Beijing: statement (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2008 12:18 AM CST

A Chinese investor. Deutsche Boerse, the operator of the German stock exchange, has opened a representative office in Beijing, the latest bourse to do so in a bid to attact Chinese initial public offerings(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Deutsche Boerse, the operator of the German stock exchange, has opened a representative office in Beijing, the latest bourse to do so in a bid to attact Chinese initial public offerings.


Fruits of reform can be bitter in Chinese countryside (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 12:14 PM CST

Zhou Baoshu stands in a field in Xibaijian village, Henan province October 17, 2008. China's vast brown plains gave birth to the reforms that transformed the nation three decades ago, and yet now Xibaijian village is one of many battlegrounds here where peasant unrest shadows that success. Picture taken October 17, 2008. (Chris Buckley/Reuters)Reuters - China's vast brown plains gave birth to the reforms that transformed the nation three decades ago, and yet now Xibaijian village is one of many battlegrounds here where peasant unrest shadows that success.


UN chief urges China to continue Tibet dialogue (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 10:10 AM CST

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has called on China to continue its dialogue with representatives of the Tibetan leader-in-exile the Dalai Lama.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on China to continue its dialogue with representatives of the Tibetan leader-in-exile the Dalai Lama.


Chinese pandas packed and ready for trip to Taiwan (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 06:12 AM CST

Pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, names together mean 'reunion', eat bamboo at a panda base in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. The pair of pandas that have long been offered to Taiwan by mainland China since 2005 are scheduled to arrive Taiwan before Christmas.(AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - Crate training and comfort food are part of preparations for two pandas headed from mainland China to Taiwan in a highly anticipated exchange signifying warming ties between the longtime rivals, state media reported Friday.


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