2009年1月30日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Meet Lu Tianna, new U.S. senator (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 09:12 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - She is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the new Democratic senator from New York State who took Hillary Clinton’s seat, and the word is she speaks Mandarin Chinese. Not only that, she does so with “good, straight tones.”

Lawmakers see efforts to calm Chinese currency row (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:27 PM CST

Reuters - President Barack Obama is expected to contact his Chinese counterpart soon and assure Beijing that Washington is not seeking a "currency war" a lawmaker closely involved in U.S.-China issues said on Thursday.

U.S. won't unilaterally block China exports: Biden (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, January 29, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - The United States will insist China play by international trade rules, but will not move unilaterally to keep out China's exports, Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.


New species of babbler bird discovered in China (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:09 AM CST

In this photo released by Birdtour Asia, a Nonggang babbler is seen in southwestern China's Guangxi in December 2008. A new species of the fist-sized, babbler bird has been found in network of underground caves in China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other new discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Birdtour Asia, James Eaton, HO)AP - A new species of the fist-sized babbler bird has been found in a network of underground caves in southwestern China, raising the prospect the country could become a hot spot for other discoveries, a conservation group said Thursday.


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