2009年12月24日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Geely's Volvo bid highlights China's global car ambition (AFP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:41 PM PST

Customers looks at a Chinese Geely car at its outlet in Beijing in October 2009. Geely's move to buy Volvo shows that manufacturers in the world's biggest auto market are revving up their global ambitions with high-end Western technology, analysts say.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Chinese carmaker Geely's move to buy Volvo shows that manufacturers in the world's biggest auto market are revving up their global ambitions with high-end Western technology, analysts say.


Verdict due in China dissident case (AFP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:12 PM PST

Supporters of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobao and petitioners with their own gripes protest outside the courthouse during Liu Xiaobo's trial on subversion charges on December 23 in Beijing. A Chinese court was due to deliver its verdict Friday in the subversion trial of high-profile dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has earned the support of the West, critical of what they say is a political case.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A Chinese court was due to deliver its verdict Friday in the subversion trial of high-profile dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has earned the support of the West, critical of what they say is a political case.


Doomed China restaurant hires live-in protester (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:05 AM PST

Lu Daren, a former demolition crew member turned anti-demolition protester, peers out from the entrance of Fish Castle Restaurant Bar in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. The owners of the Beijing restaurant marked for demolition were too busy to fight it and turned to hiring a live-in protester. The job might be a first for China, where frenzied urban construction has led to violent evictions and suicides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Wanted: One live-in protester, $146 a month, no days off.


China decries Western "meddling" in dissident trial (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:35 AM PST

A demonstrator holds a picture of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during a protest, urging Nobel peace prize recipient 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 - China denounced foreign diplomatic "meddling" in the trial this week of Liu Xiaobo, a dissident facing up to 15 years in prison for authoring works calling for greater civil and political freedoms.


China to execute five more for Xinjiang unrest (AFP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:28 AM PST

File photo shows a large group of Han Chinese people carrying sticks and shovels in Urumqi, Xinjiang province on July 7 amid unrest which flared in the region. Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in the troubled region, an official has said, as Beijing's human rights record comes under a harsh new spotlight.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in July in China's Xinjiang region, an official said Thursday, as Beijing's human rights record comes under a harsh new spotlight.


China sentences five more to death for Xinjiang riot (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:51 AM PST

A woman holds onto a Chinese policeman as a crowd of locals confront security forces along a street in the city of Urumqi, in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 7, 2009. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting earlier this year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, a local government spokeswoman said on Thursday.


China blasts diplomats over dissident's trial (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:05 AM PST

Chinese police officers and plainclothes personnel force a petitioner into a car outside the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court where a high-profile trial of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is taking place in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The court tried Liu Wednesday on subversion charges after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to Communist Party dominance, and his brother-in-law said a verdict would be handed down on Christmas Day. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China on Thursday accused some diplomats of interfering in its internal affairs because they criticized the detention and trial of a prominent dissident who faces up to 15 years in jail for calling for political reform.


China to impose tariffs on chemical imports: govt (AFP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 12:18 AM PST

File photo shows a chemical plant in Daya Bay, southern China. China has said it will slap anti-dumping penalties on a chemical imported from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan after an investigation found the product had been priced too low.(AFP/File/Laurent Fievet)AFP - China said Thursday it would slap anti-dumping penalties on a chemical imported from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan after an investigation found the product had been priced too low.


China sentences 5 more to death over ethnic riots (AP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:55 PM PST

Ethnic Uighur women grab at a riot policeman as they protest in Urumqi in July 2009. Rights activists expressed outrage Sunday at Cambodia's decision to deport to China a group of 20 Muslim Uighurs who had sought refuge after unrest in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - China has sentenced five more people to death for crimes committed during riots in the western region of Xinjiang in July in country's worst ethnic violence in decades.


China slams 'gross interference' in dissident case (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:43 PM PST

Shang Baojun (centre), the lawyer for leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobao, is manhandled by plainclothes security trying to keep him from talking with journalists. China has slammed what it called AFP - China on Thursday slammed what it called "gross interference" in its internal affairs from abroad, following statements from foreign governments expressing concern over the trial of a key dissident.


China student freezes, teacher accused: state media (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:32 PM PST

File photo shows a Chinese paramilitary guard on guard in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A student in eastern China died after allegedly being told to stand in the freezing cold as punishment by a teacher who then went out drinking and forgot him, state media reported Thursday.(AFP/File)AFP - A student in eastern China died after allegedly being told to stand in the freezing cold as punishment by a teacher who then went out drinking and forgot him, state media reported Thursday.


Freezing weather spreads in China: state media (AFP)

Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:29 PM PST

A cold snap that blanketed China's far-western Xinjiang region with snow, sparking power cuts and flight cancellations, is spreading across other parts of the nation, state media said Thursday.(AFP/File)AFP - A cold snap that blanketed China's far-western Xinjiang region with snow, sparking power cuts and flight cancellations, is spreading across other parts of the nation, state media said Thursday.


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