2008年12月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China to send warships to fight Somalia piracy (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:41 AM CST

Chinese troops march in Beijing. China is preparing to send warships to fight rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, the government said Thursday, a day after one of its commercial vessels foiled an attack near the African state.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China is preparing to send warships to fight rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, the government said Thursday, a day after one of its commercial vessels foiled an attack near the African state.

China activist's wife hopes to set up foundation (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:40 AM CST

In this July 6, 2007 file photo, Hu Jia, right, and Zeng Jinyan, husband-and-wife activists, pose for a picture at their home in Beijing, China. Hu was named winner of the 50,000-euro Shakharov Prize. Zeng says she hopes to use the money to start a foundation to support families of other activists. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - The wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident who was awarded the European Parliament's top human rights award hopes to use the prize money to start a foundation to support the families of other activists.

China's President Hu urges growth and stability (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:38 AM CST

China's President Hu Jintao (L) helps former president Jiang Zemin to stand during a celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing December 18, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - China must focus on economic growth and social stability in the face of a global slump, President Hu Jintao said on Thursday, vowing a stronger state role in steering market reforms.

Protesters urge China province to stop eating cats (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:36 AM CST

A woman holding a picture of a trapped cat cries as she takes part in a protest, where animal-loving residents unfurled banners in urging a southern Chinese province to stop the 'cruel slaughter' of cats for food, in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec.18, 2008. The protesters say as many as 5,000 cats across the country, mostly strays, have been caught in the past week by traders and transported to Guangdong province — to be killed for food. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - A southern Chinese province must stop the "shameful" and "cruel slaughter" of cats for food, a group of more than 40 animal lovers in Beijing said Thursday as they unfurled banners in a tearful protest.

China shares rise on moves to boost real estate (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:27 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares rose Thursday after the government announced tax cuts and other moves aimed at propping up the weakening housing sector. Renewed hopes for an interest rate cut also buoyed buying sentiment.

Hu Jintao pledges open China amid 30-year celebration (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:54 AM CST

Graphic on key events in China during 30 years of economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Chinese President Hu Jintao has pledged that China will never turn back on its path of opening up to the world, as he led events celebrating the economic reforms.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged Thursday that China would never turn back on its path of opening to the world, as he led celebrations for the nation's 30 years of spectacular economic reforms.

30 years transform China, but not its politics (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:49 AM CST

Old propaganda posters and communist era itesm are sold as memorabilia at a comercial stall in Beijing, China, Saturday, Dec.13, 2008. Before the economic reforms, art in communist China was limited mostly to propaganda posters. Now those posters are sold as Communist kitsch and the scene is vibrant following a revival thanks to the 1978 reforms allowing for more personal freedoms. Now Chinese artists are feted by the international art scene, and their work sells in the million of dollars. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - China marked the 30th anniversary of the start of its capitalist revolution with a speech Thursday from Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, who urged continued economic reform but said it would not lead to Western-style democracy.

Chronology of China's reform era (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:41 AM CST

AP - 1978: Economic, social and cultural reforms launched under Deng Xiaoping, two years after the death of Mao Zedong. GDP per capita is 381 yuan.

Australian miner's shares climb after bailout news (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 11:44 PM CST

AP - Shares in Australian miner Mount Gibson Iron Ltd. continued to climb Thursday after the government approved a bailout by two Chinese companies who will underwrite a capital-raising share issue.

Blast at China coal mine traps 18 (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:41 PM CST

AP - China's official Xinhua News Agency says 18 miners are trapped after a coal mine blast in central China.

EU honors Chinese dissident Hu Jia in absentia (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:50 AM CST

The empty seat of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia is seen during the 2008 Sakharov Prize giving ceremony at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday Dec. 17, 2008. The European Parliament awarded Hu Jia, with its top annual human rights award the 2008 Sakharov Prize on Wednesday. The award is named after Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov. It carries a prize of euro50,000 (US$68,450) in cash. The award to Hu was presented in absentia. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)AP - The European Parliament gave a jailed Chinese dissident a one-minute standing ovation on Wednesday as it honored him in absentia with its top human rights award.

China says two 'terrorists' will be executed for pre-Olympic attack (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 07:13 AM CST

An ethnic Uighur sits under a poster of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, August 5, 2008. China announced Wednesday that the two Islamic AFP - China announced Wednesday that two Islamic "terrorists" would be executed for a deadly attack on police that was staged four days before the Beijing Olympics and intended to sabotage the Games.

China sentences 2 to death for attack in Xinjiang (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 06:54 AM CST

AP - A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced two people to death for what it said was attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics with an attack in the far-west region of Xinjiang that killed 17 police days before the games.

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