2009年2月19日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Report: China sentences 2 nuns over Tibet protests (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:00 AM CST

AP - A court in western China has sentenced two Tibetan nuns to lengthy prison terms for taking part in anti-government demonstrations last year, amid reports of more clashes between Tibetans and security forces, advocacy groups reported Friday.

China quake-damaged reservoirs fixed by end-2010: official (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 11:20 PM CST

About half the 2,125 reservoirs damaged by the massive earthquake in southwest China will be repaired this year, according to state media quoting a water resources official as saying. The repairs to roughly 1,000 reservoirs and 378 kilometres (234 miles) of embankment will cost 5.5 billion dollars, Leng Gang, Sichuan province's water resources director said, according to the China Daily.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - About half the 2,125 reservoirs damaged by the massive earthquake in southwest China will be repaired this year, according to state media quoting a water resources official as saying.

Hillary and the Dear Leader (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:38 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - On her first diplomatic foray abroad, Hillary Clinton is casting aside normal diplomatic caution. And for journalists, that’s newsy development.

Chinese professional women work as nannies, maids (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 02:14 PM CST

AP - She majored in English and loved her job as an office worker in China's once-booming export industry. But now Xiong Xuhua is jobless and in training to be a housekeeper, a fate she is too embarrassed to tell even her husband about.

Correction: Denmark-China-Little Mermaid story (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:20 PM CST

AP - In a Feb. 18 story about the Little Mermaid statue being sent to China next year for exhibition, The Associated Press erroneously reported the year it was first beheaded. The vandalism occurred in 1964, not 1963.

China says willing to work with US on climate change (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 09:52 AM CST

Traffic drives past the Tiananmen Gate which is shrouded in heavy smog in Beijing in July 2008. China said Thursday it was willing to work with the United States on addressing climate change, saying such efforts were vital to fighting global warming.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China said Thursday it was willing to work with the United States on addressing climate change, saying such efforts were vital to fighting global warming.

Chinese auto maker plans to take on giants with electric cars (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 09:03 AM CST

BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu (L, inside car) is driven in a F3DM hybrid car at its headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on February 17, 2009. From its headquarters in south China, BYD Auto is pursuing a project of staggering ambition: To be in the lead as the world's cars free themselves from their century-old dependence on petrol.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - From its headquarters in south China, BYD Auto is pursuing a project of staggering ambition: To be in the lead as the world's cars free themselves from their century-old dependence on petrol.

China investigating kidney ailments in babies (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:23 AM CST

In this Sept. 19, 2008 file photo, Telunsu, products of China Mengniu Dairy Co. Ltd. are displayed at a press conference to announce the company's interim results in Hong Kong. Chinese quality investigators have found that milk products from a unit of France's Groupe Danone SA are melamine-free and also said an unapproved additive used by one of China's largest dairies is safe but was used illegally. The Health Ministry said a panel of experts had reviewed OMP, a milk protein added by Mengniu to its premium Telunsu line and declared that 'consumption ... is not hazardous to health.' However, the ministry said that OMP is not a government-approved additive and Mengniu 'promoted its function in an exaggerated manner.' (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)AP - Chinese health officials are investigating a growing number of cases of kidney stones in babies, state media said Thursday, months after a tainted milk scandal in which hundreds of thousands of children who drank melamine-contaminated formula suffered similar ailments.

China calls for return of Guantanamo Bay inmates (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:04 AM CST

In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Guantanamo detainees, in white, and U.S. military guards walk around Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court reversed a ruling Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees, none of whom are labeled enemy combatants, to the United States. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP - The United States should hand over 17 Chinese Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, China said Thursday, amid long-standing efforts by Washington to resettle the detainees elsewhere.

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