2009年1月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China revamping its key southern factory region (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 02:49 AM CST

AP - China has updated an ambitious blueprint to aggressively revamp the country's key manufacturing region — a plan that has already helped cause many low-end factories to move or shut down.

China shares gain, led by power companies, banks (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 02:45 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares rebounded Friday as investors hunted bargains and power companies rose after a government capital injection into one electricity supplier.

China plans production controls for deadly melamine (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 01:02 AM CST

Reuters - China plans to impose production controls on melamine, the cheap industrial ingredient at the center of a milk-contamination scandal that shocked China and the rest of the world last year, a newspaper said Friday.

China plans major revamp of public hospitals (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 12:38 AM CST

AP - China plans a major revamp of its public hospitals — criticized for their lack of access, huge fees and poor doctor services — as part of its long-awaited reform of the national health care system.

China names more Web sites for vulgar content (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 10:23 PM CST

AP - China has expanded its campaign against pornography and vulgar content online, naming more than a dozen Web sites, including Microsoft's MSN, that it says need to clean up.

China's struggling airlines get tax break (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 09:27 PM CST

AP - China is taking new steps to shore up its aviation industry amid global economic turmoil, giving struggling airlines a $360 million tax break and $26 billion in loans to its main aircraft maker, state media said Friday.

China's jobless migrants go home early for holiday (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 11:19 AM CST

A migrant worker nears the train station in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Some 188 million Chinese are expected to squeeze onto China's train network in the coming weeks to return home for the Chinese Lunar New Year.  (AP Photo/William Foreman)AP - Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.


Senior official says US, China ties strengthening (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 08:10 AM CST

Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte speaks at a  press conference at the U.S. Embassy Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009.  Negroponte said economic and political ties between China and the United States have expanded and matured over three decades to a level that 'simply could not have been imagined.'  Negroponte is in China on a two-day visit to help commemorate 30 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries. He is standing in for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was originally scheduled to attend but stayed in Washington D.C. to monitor the Gaza crisis.  (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - China and the United States are "increasingly interdependent" following three decades of building close economic and political ties, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.


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