2009年5月14日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

BofA sells $7.3B stake in China Construction Bank (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT

AP - Bank of America Corp. has sold part of its stake in China Construction Bank to Asian investors for about $7.3 billion as it looks to raise funds to meet government capital requirements.

US senators urge release of Chinese rights lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 03:41 PM PDT

Four US senators on Thursday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free prominent human rights lawyer and rights advocate Gao Zhisheng, pictured in 2005, on the eve of the 100th day since he was taken by security forces.(AFP/File/Verna Yu)AFP - Four US senators on Thursday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free prominent human rights lawyer and rights advocate Gao Zhisheng on the eve of the 100th day since he was taken by security forces.


Obama says U.S. can't keep borrowing from China (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama raised the prospect on Thursday that China and other nations could stop buying U.S. debt and said the United States needed to tackle its deficit to avoid long-term economic damage.

Deposed Chinese leader's memoir out before June 4 (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 19, 1989 file photo, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, center with loud hailer, speaks with fasting university students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the last time he was seen in public, early Friday May 19, 1989. The memoir of the Chinese leader who fell from power for  sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989 has been published ahead of the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown that ended the protests. Second from right is current Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, then a top aide to Zhao. (AP Photo/Xinhua, File)AP - It took hours of secret recordings and years of clandestine planning to get the material smuggled out and translated.


160 in China hospital over possible factory pollution: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 09:02 AM PDT

A Chinese woman holds a baby patient at a hospital in Jilin province. More than 160 people have been hospitalised and hundreds of others have been sickened in northeastern China in a suspected case of pollution caused by a chemical plant, local media said Thursday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - More than 160 people have been hospitalised and hundreds of others have been sickened in northeastern China in a suspected case of pollution caused by a chemical plant, local media said Thursday.


Fallen Chinese leader reveals Tiananmen secrets (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 08:52 AM PDT

A man reads a memoir of top Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang in Hong Kong. The memoir by the leader -- who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 pro-democracy protesters -- has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - The memoir of a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 pro-democracy protesters has been published ahead of the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown he tried to prevent.


China says U.S. currency bill tempts protectionism (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2009 04:26 AM PDT

An employee counts U.S. currency near renminbi notes at a bank in Hefei, Anhui province, December 3, 2008. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China rejected claims it has manipulated yuan exchange rate policies to tilt trade flows against the United States, saying on Thursday that proposed legislation before the U.S. Congress could stoke protectionism.


China's Zhao decries June 4 "tragedy" from the grave (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2009 03:29 AM PDT

A Beijing citizen stands in front of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace in this June 5, 1989 file photo during the crushing of the Tiananmen Square uprising. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Two decades after his downfall and four years after his death, reformist Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang has broken the official silence on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, denouncing the killings of protesters as a "tragedy."


China denies spying claims made in US court case (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 02:05 AM PDT

AP - China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied spying accusations made in a court case against a U.S. Defense Department official, accusing Washington of clinging to a "Cold War mentality."

Chinese lawyers say they were beaten, detained (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 12:14 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese lawyer says he and a colleague were detained and beaten by police while visiting the family of a man who died under suspicious circumstances in a labor camp.

Chinese imports could bring GM political troubles (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 08:59 PM PDT

Clarifies that some models of the five brands are imported. Graphic shows GM importsAP - As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.


Exiled Tiananmen-era dissident detained in China (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2009 08:13 PM PDT

Deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang's memoir is released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong Thursday, May 14, 2009. The memoir of the Chinese leader who fell from power for sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989 has been published ahead of the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown that ended the protests. The 300-page book, 'Prisoner of the State,' was crafted over four years from secret tapes recorded by Zhao Ziyang, who lived under house arrest for 15 years before he died in 2005.  (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - An exiled leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has been secretly detained in south China for more than six months after trying to return to his homeland for the first time since 2002, his family said.


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