2009年12月20日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


French PM arrives in China (AFP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) receives flowers from a young Chinese girl after arriving at Beijing's Capital Airport. Fillon arrived in China Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing forward relations between the two countries following a rift over Tibetan issues that lasted one year.(AFP/POOL/Peter Parks)AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in China Sunday for a visit aimed at pushing forward relations between the two countries following a rift over Tibetan issues that lasted one year.


Thousands of Taiwanese protest China envoy's visit (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 05:07 AM PST

AP - Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of the central Taiwanese city of Taichung on Sunday, ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for trade talks that some on the island fear could eventually lead to unification.

China to try prominent dissident on Wednesday: lawyer (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:55 AM PST

Demonstrators hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during a protest, urging Nobel peace prize recipient U.S. President Barack Obama to demand the Chinese government to release all dissidents, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - Chinese prosecutors will put Liu Xiaobo, one of the country's best-known dissidents, on trial on subversion charges on Wednesday in Beijing, Liu's lawyer and wife said on Sunday.


China: Climate talks yielded 'positive' results (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 04:28 AM PST

A chimney of a plant that produces heating for buildings emits smoke near a residential apartment in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday in Copenhagen with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall target for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo) -- CHINA OUT --AP - China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it.


Thousands protest in Taiwan over China trade talks (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 03:43 AM PST

Protesters from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party shout slogans against the upcoming Taiwan and China cross strait talks in Taichung December 20, 2009. The Chinese characters read, Reuters - Thousands of people marched in Taiwan on Sunday to protest against warming ties with political rival China, a day before Beijing's top negotiator arrives on the island for talks on a landmark free trade pact.


Chinese man's subversion trial to start this week (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 02:59 AM PST

AP - The long-awaited subversion trial of a high-profile Chinese dissident who has called for greater civil rights in the country and an end to the Communist Party's political dominance will start in a few days, the man's lawyer said Sunday.

Gas pipeline a symbol of China's power: analysts (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 11:23 PM PST

Workers at the opening ceremony of a gas pipeline in Samandepe, Turkmenistan, where China's President Hu Jintao unviled the landmark project which will transport natural gas from the former Soviet republic to China. The world's third largest economy has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's resources(AFP/File)AFP - China has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's e nergy resources also coveted by the West, experts say.


Cambodia deports Uighurs despite criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:22 PM PST

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, seen as frontrunner to succeed President Hu Jintao, delivers a speech as he attends a welcome reception in Tokyo in this December 15, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Cambodia has deported back to China 20 Muslim Uighurs who fled the country after deadly ethnic violence this year, a government official said on Sunday, despite concerns they will face persecution by Beijing.


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