2009年1月26日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Chinese hope for bullish Year of the Ox (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST

Performers dressed in traditional costume dance while holding each other during a show celebrating Chinese New Year at Longtan Park in Beijing, January 25, 2009. (David Gray/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese celebrated the Lunar New Year Monday with hopes that the Year of the Ox will be more bullish than disaster-stricken 2008.

Mood not bullish as China greets Year of the Ox (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 01:36 AM CST

Hong Kong residents gather Wong Tai Sin Temple in the southern Chinese city to mark the Lunar New Year. China has welcomed the new year with parties, feasts and thousands of tonnes of firecrackers, but the mood was far from bullish as the nation ushered in the Year of the Ox. Duration: 02.00(AFPTV)AFP - China gave the Lunar New Year a raucous welcome Monday with parties, feasts and thousands of tonnes of firecrackers, but the mood was far from bullish as the nation ushered in the Year of the Ox.

China ushers in Year of Ox with celebration (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 12:47 AM CST

Chinese performers prepare to take part in the entertainment at a temple fair on Chinese New Year in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. Temple fairs opened across the city as Chinese celebrate the year of the Ox.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - China greeted the arrival Monday of the Year of the Ox with fireworks and celebrations, bidding farewell to a tumultuous 2008 marked by a massive earthquake, the Olympics, and a global economic crisis.

Few Lunar celebrations for jobless in China (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 08:07 PM CST

A couple rush to catch their train to head home for the Lunar New Year holidays at Beijing West Railway Station. Millions of people are similarly suffering in China as they spend the Lunar New Year -- traditionally a time for family feasts, fireworks and fun -- soberly contemplating how they will find work after the holiday.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - Beaten, cheated and underpaid in cities, rural migrant worker Cheng Wenlong trekked home for the Lunar New Year with no job and few plans to celebrate China's most important holiday.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 01:11 PM CST

Workers walk past new construction, near the Xiaoxi hydroelectric dam, built for villagers who have been evacuated from the dam site in Changsha, China, Dec. 27, 2008. The hydroelectric dam, a low wall of concrete slicing across an old farming valley, is supposed to help a power company in distant Germany contribute to saving the climate, while putting lucrative 'carbon credits'' into the pockets of Chinese developers. But in the end the new Xiaoxi dam may do nothing to lower global-warming emissions as advertised. And many of the 7,500 people displaced by the project still seethe over losing their homes and farmland. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The hydroelectric dam, a low wall of concrete slicing across an old farming valley, is supposed to help a power company in distant Germany contribute to saving the climate — while putting lucrative "carbon credits" into the pockets of Chinese developers.

How the Clean Development Mechanism works (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 09:16 AM CST

AP - The Clean Development Mechanism is designed to allow voluntary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries to offset required reductions in industrial nations.

China's New Year rush puts trains in line for cash (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jan 2009 03:05 AM CST

A performer dressed in traditional costume bows during a show celebrating Chinese New Year at Longtan Park in Beijing, January 25, 2009. (David Gray/Reuters)Reuters - China's trains labored to carry millions home on Sunday on the eve of the country's biggest annual holiday, serving as a reminder of the staggering infrastructure needs of the world's third-largest economy.

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