2009年11月14日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Former ambassador to China during Tiananmen dies (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 01:05 PM PST

FILE - Former U.S. ambassador to Beijing James Lilley is seen during a meeting at the Presidential Palace, in this, July 25, 2003 file photo taken in Taipei. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81. The Washington Post said Lilley, who was born in China to an oilman father and schoolteacher mother, died Thursday Nov. 12, 2009 in Washington from complications related to prostate cancer. (AP Photo/Jerome Favre/File)AP - James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81.


China's Hu calls for economic pact with Taiwan (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 10:10 AM PST

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and Taiwanese representative for APEC Lien Chan are pictured in Singapore. China's president has called for formal talks on a landmark economic pact with Taiwan to start by the end of the year, in a rare meeting here with a top politician from the island.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Saturday for formal talks on a landmark economic pact with Taiwan to start by the end of the year, in a rare meeting here with a top politician from the island.


No bars, no mistresses, Chinese officials warned (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:17 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Jan. 12, 2004, Chen Liangyu, former secretary of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party, looks on during the second session of 12th Shanghai People's Congress at Shanghai Expo Center in Shanghai, China. Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation. Chen, the most powerful official to fall in recent years, was accused of being a greedy lothario who indulged his sexual urges with multiple girlfriends. (AP Photo/EyePress)AP - Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation.


"Kyoto principles" crucial in climate talks: China (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 01:53 AM PST

Reuters - China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday.

China dissidents 'detained ahead of Obama visit' (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 12:55 AM PST

Chinese paramilitary guard is seen standing on watch at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on November 12. China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP.(AFP/File)AFP - China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.


China builds centre to ease pandas into wild: media (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 12:18 AM PST

Giant pandas are seen at a panda breeding research centre in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan province, in 2008. China has started construction on a new research centre to help captive pandas adapt to the wild with a view to releasing them into nature, state media reported.(AFP/File)AFP - China has started construction on a research centre to help captive pandas adapt to the wild with a view to releasing them into nature, state media reported.


China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:47 PM PST

AP - Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated.

Heavy snow storms in northern China kill 40 (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:37 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, soldiers of the militia, a civilian reserve force under China's military, shovel snow on the road in Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxi province.  Heavy snow and blizzards wiped north China, caused several death and hundreds of injuries, State media reported. (AP Photo)AP - Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.


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