2009年10月13日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China auto sales jump 78 percent in September (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 02:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, customers look at vehicles at a car lot outside a Buick dealership, one of General Motors' brands, in Beijing, China. General Motors saw total sales in China for January-September surge 55 percent to nearly 1.3 million vehicles. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel, file)AP - China has widened its lead over the U.S. as the world's top auto market, with September sales vaulting 78 percent, spurred by tax cuts and government stimulus spending.


China's super-rich bounce back from financial crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:56 AM PDT

Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of the Shanghai-based Hurun Report which publishes the annual list of the 1,000 richest people in China, announces this year's Reuters - China's super-rich have bounced back from the financial crisis with a vengeance, and China now has more known dollar billionaires than any other country bar the United States, according to a new report released on Tuesday.


Russia, China seal trade ties with $3.5 bln in deals (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) toasts with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) in Beijing. China and Russia cemented their burgeoning trade relationship with billions of dollars in new deals signed during a visit by Putin.(AFP/RIA/Alexey Druzhinin)AFP - China and Russia on Tuesday cemented their burgeoning trade relationship with billions of dollars in new deals signed during a visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.


2 IPOs to signal US desire for China investments (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:55 AM PDT

AP - Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have flopped this fall.

Future of top China magazine in doubt after exodus (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:33 AM PDT

An issue of the Caijing Magazine is seen at a newsstand in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. The general manager of Caijing, China's most influential magazine, and dozens of her staff have resigned, in a possible tussle over editorial control at the path-breaking publication. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Mass resignations at China's most gutsy news magazine, Caijing, have triggered speculation that the groundbreaking journal may close due to a fight with its publisher over editorial freedom.


Kadeer: China death sentences will 'enrage' Uighurs (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 08:48 AM PDT

This TV grab from taken from CCTV shows two of six defendants during a trial at the Urumqi court over July's ethnic unrest in Xinjiang. Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has said the Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to AFP - Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Tuesday said a Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to "further enrage" her people.


Gazprom strikes preliminary gas deal with China (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao, right, toasts with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, after signing a joint statement on bilateral cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday October 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Takuro Yabe, Pool)AP - China and Russia signed a framework agreement Tuesday that could see a steady flow of natural gas to energy-hungry China from its resource-rich neighbor.


Guinea signs $7B mining deal with Chinese firm (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 07:45 AM PDT

AP - Guinea's military government said Tuesday it has signed a $7 billion mining agreement with a Chinese company.

China Sept auto sales soar 77.9% (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:44 AM PDT

A dealer sits next to new cars for sale at a car market in Beijing in September. An industry body has said China's auto sales soared 77.9% in September from a year ago to 1.33 million units, the seventh straight month that sales exceeded the one million unit mark.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China's auto sales soared 77.9 percent in September from a year ago to 1.33 million units, an industry body said on Tuesday, the seventh straight month that sales exceeded the one million unit mark.


China's billionaire list hits 130 despite crisis (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:41 AM PDT

Car battery tycoon Wang Chuanfu (pictured here in Detroit, Michigan in January) topped a new list of China's 1,000 richest people, which has 130 dollar billionaires in an emphatic declaration of the Asian giant's economic arrival.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bill Pugliano)AFP - Car battery tycoon Wang Chuanfu topped a new list of China's 1,000 richest people released on Tuesday, which has 130 dollar billionaires in an emphatic declaration of the Asian giant's economic arrival.


China, Russia bolster ties with gas, trade deals (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:34 AM PDT

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lights a candle as he visits Uspensky cathedral in Beijing, October 13, 2009. Putin examined the cathedral, which was built by the Russian Orthodox Mission in 1902. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin/PoolReuters - Russia and China bolstered their close but increasingly imbalanced relationship on Tuesday when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ushered through a tentative gas supply agreement and deals worth $3.5 billion.


Mercy urged for 'ill' Briton facing China execution (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:21 AM PDT

Clive Stafford Smith (centre), director of legal rights group Reprieve, speaks at a London press conference attended by Dr Peter Schaapveld (left) and Akbar Shaikh, brother of imprisoned Briton Akmal Shaikh. The three said Akmal, facing the death penalty for drug trafficking in China, probably has serious mental illness and should not be executed.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - A Briton facing the death penalty for drug trafficking in China probably has serious mental illness and should not be executed, supporters said Tuesday.


Lead poisoning sickens nearly 1,000 kids in China (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:16 AM PDT

A Chinese boy gets treatment for lead poisoning at a hospital in Changqing in north China's Shaanxi province in August 2009. Nearly 1,000 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation's smelting industry.(AFP/File/Str)AP - Nearly 1,000 children in a central Chinese province have tested positive for excessive lead in their blood, state media reported Tuesday, the latest of several lead poisoning cases involving thousands of children across the country.


Pakistan PM Gilani meets China's Hu (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:00 AM PDT

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (left) met with Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) Tuesday as part of a four-day trip to ally China, just as a spate of violent attacks in his country saw 125 killed.(AFP/Pool/Takuro Yabe)AFP - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani met with Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday as part of a four-day trip to ally China, just as a spate of violent attacks in his country saw 125 killed.


India, China spar over PM visit to disputed region (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT

India and China traded diplomatic jabs Tuesday over a recent visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a border region at the core of a long-standing dispute between the neighbours.(AFP/File)AFP - India and China traded diplomatic jabs Tuesday over a recent visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a border region at the core of a long-standing dispute between the neighbours.


GM chief says Opel sale may come this week (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 03:40 AM PDT

General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson listens questions from journalists at a press conference Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009 in Shanghai, China. GM could finalize the sale of its German auto unit Opel as early as this week, Henderson said Tuesday. (AP Photo)AP - General Motors could finalize the sale of its German auto unit Opel as early as this week, the U.S. automaker's CEO said Tuesday.


Bank of China exec could take IMF role: reports (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 12:51 AM PDT

File photo of Bank of China executive vice president Zhu Min, who could soon be appointed to a senior position in the International Monetary Fund at beijing's suggestion.(AFP/File/Rick Stevens)AFP - The International Monetary Fund could soon appoint a vice president from state-run Bank of China to a senior position at Beijing's suggestion, local media reported Tuesday.


Russia, China sign 3.5 bln dlr deals: official (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:38 PM PDT

File photo shows the Molikpaq oil platform in far eastern Russia. Bilateral trade between China and Russia, including vast energy deals, grew to nearly 48 billion dollars in 2008, nearly double the volume in 2004, according to Chinese figures.(AFP/File/Ursula Hyzy)AFP - China and Russia signed 3.5 billion dollars in commercial deals in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of a meeting between the two countries' premiers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said.


China court sentences 6 to death in Xinjiang riots (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 09:03 PM PDT

This TV grab from taken from CCTV shows two of six defendants during a trial at the Urumqi court over July's ethnic unrest in Xinjiang. Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has said the Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to AP - A court in China's far western Xinjiang region has sentenced six men to death for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people. A seventh man was given life imprisonment.


Spinoff speculation surrounds China's top magazine (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 08:57 PM PDT

AP - The general manager of China's most influential financial magazine and dozens of her staff have resigned, in a possible tussle over editorial control at the path-breaking publication.

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