2009年7月12日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China president Hu endorsed Rio arrests: report (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - China's President Hu Jintao personally endorsed an investigation into global miner Rio Tinto that led to the detention of four of its China-based staff, a newspaper said on Monday, citing Chinese government sources.

Fresh aftershock hits China quake region: USGS (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT

A girl sleeps on a stool after a moderate 5.7-magnitude quake struck in Yao'an county, in China's southwestern Yunnan province, on July 9. A fresh aftershock jolted China's southwest Monday, three days after an earthquake in the same area killed one person, injured hundreds and directly affected two million people, state media said.(AFP/File)AFP - A fresh aftershock jolted China's southwest Monday, three days after an earthquake in the same area killed one person, injured hundreds and directly affected two million people, state media said.


China's ethnic groups struggle forward after riots (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:36 PM PDT

A relative of Han Chinese victims who were killed during last Sunday's riot cries on during their funeral in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Sunday, July 12, 2009. China on Sunday raised the injured toll from ethnic clashes a week ago to 1,680 — one more bit in the trickle of information the government has released on the unrest in the far west, though much remains unknown. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Incense was lit and paper money burned at the funeral Sunday for a Han Chinese family — a man, his wife and his parents, all killed in last week's ethnic riots. Three Uighur neighbors approached, standing tentatively apart.


U.S. officials to prod China on climate change (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:08 PM PDT

Flashes of lighting illuminate the sky during a thunderstorm over Shanghai, July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visit their ancestral homeland this week to press China to join with the United States in stepped-up efforts to fight global warming.


Heavy security in China's Xinjiang, stability urged (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 08:19 AM PDT

Turkish demonstrators, mostly supporters of pro-Islamic Felicity Party, shout slogans in support of East Turkestan, a short-lived break-away would-be constitutional republic founded in 1933, during a protest to condemn the recent killings in China's Xinjiang Uighur region, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, July 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)Reuters - An uneasy calm returned on Sunday to China's riot-hit Urumqi where 184 people died in ethnic violence a week ago, though the official tally of dead could rise, a regional official indicated.


Iranian clerics lash out at China over unrest (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 06:30 AM PDT

Chinese police guard the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi. A top Iranian cleric has condemned China for AFP - Iranian clerics condemned China on Sunday for "horribly" suppressing Muslim Uighurs in deadly unrest between the Uighurs and Han Chinese that has killed more than 180 people.


Hundreds rally in Japan behind China's Uighurs (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 06:22 AM PDT

Uighurs living in Japan stage a demonstration in Tokyo. More than 500 supporters of China's ethnic minority Uighurs have rallied in Tokyo as the Chinese authorities banned public gatherings in restive Urumqi city after ethnic violence.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - More than 500 supporters of China's ethnic minority Uighurs on Sunday rallied in Tokyo as the Chinese authorities banned public gatherings in restive Urumqi city after ethnic violence.


China's Urumqi tense one week after deadly unrest (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 06:03 AM PDT

A Chinese policeman walks past an ethnic Uighur trader in Urumqi. Residents of Urumqi were banned from gathering in public places for a traditional day of mourning, one week after ethnic unrest left more than 180 people dead.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - Residents of China's Urumqi city were banned from gathering in public places on Sunday for a traditional day of mourning, one week after ethnic unrest left more than 180 people dead.


Uighur exile calls for US consulate in Xinjiang (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:22 AM PDT

Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, seen here on July 6, has urged the United States to open a consulate in the violence-wracked region of Xinjiang to show solidarity with the AFP - The United States should open a consulate in the violence-wracked region of Xinjiang to show solidarity with the "oppressed" Uighurs in China, the leader of the minority's exiles said on Sunday.


Australia warns of risks to delay in China spy case (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Australia warned China on Sunday of the risks to business confidence from the detention without charge of an Australian executive accused of stealing state secrets, and Chinese executives feared a wider purge.

Australia: Rio detention could hurt China business (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 12:36 AM PDT

Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean speaks at a press conference on the Bund in Shanghai, China, Saturday, July 11, 2009.  After meeting  with Chinese officials Crean said he expressed 'strong concern' about the detention of a Rio Tinto Ltd. employee on spying charges. (AP Photo)AP - Australian officials said Sunday that China has not given them any evidence to support its detention of an Australian mining executive on spying charges and warned that the affair could discourage foreign companies from doing business there.


China blast: terrorism ruled out says official (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 10:28 PM PDT

File photo shows a fire engine in China. An oil tank has exploded at a chemical factory in China's Urumqi city, local authorities have said, one week after ethnic unrest left more than 180 people dead.(AFP/File)AFP - An oil tank explosion at a chemical plant in China's restive Urumqi city was not due to terrorism, the factory's vice manager has said, one week after ethnic unrest left more than 180 people dead.


Resource-rich Xinjiang crucial to China (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 08:27 PM PDT

An ethnic Uigur woman on crutches protests in front of a line of paramilitary police in Urumqi, in the region of Xinjiang. Resource rich and a buffer with Central Asia, Xinjiang remains vital to China's economic and geopolitical interests.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Resource rich and a buffer with Central Asia, Xinjiang is vital to China's economic and geopolitical interests.


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