2009年2月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Military exercise sparks earthquake panic in China (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 11:49 PM CST

AP - A military exercise in southern China set off mass panic among local residents who thought an earthquake had struck with about 100,000 people fleeing their homes, state media reported Saturday.

Woman accused of illegal export to China (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:06 PM CST

AP - A Maryland woman was charged Friday with exporting miniature controls for small unmanned aircraft to China.

China's Hu visits Senegal, five trade pacts signed (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:21 PM CST

Chinese president Hu Jintao walks with Senegal president Abdoulaye Wade as he arrives at the airport for a two day visit to Senegal. China and Senegal signed five trade pacts Friday as Hu pressed on with an African tour to boost commercial ties and deflect criticism that Beijing exploits the world's poorest continent.(AFP/Seyllou)AFP - China and Senegal signed five trade pacts Friday as President Hu Jintao pressed on with an African tour to boost commercial ties and deflect criticism that Beijing exploits the world's poorest continent.


China finds Danone milk powder 'safe': report (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 10:45 AM CST

A government laboratory probing the safety of Chinese-made milk powder produced by France's Danone has found no evidence of industrial chemical contamination, state media reported Friday.(Danone Dumex)AFP - A government laboratory probing the safety of Chinese-made milk powder produced by France's Danone has found no evidence of industrial chemical contamination, state media reported Friday.


Chinese president arrives in Senegal (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 10:29 AM CST

A woman holds a poster of China president Hu Jintao with Senegal president Abdoulaye Wade. Hu arrived in Senegal Friday for the second stage of a whirlwind four-nation African tour meant to boost cooperation amid criticism that Beijing is exploiting the continent.(AFP/Seyllou)AFP - China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Senegal Friday for the second stage of a whirlwind four-nation African tour meant to boost cooperation amid criticism that Beijing is exploiting the continent.


Hu launches China's "largest gift" to West Africa (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:56 AM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao is greeted by Saudi officials on his arrival at Riyadh airport February 10, 2009. (Fahad Shadeed/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao laid the first brick of a "Friendship Bridge" in Mali's capital on Friday, calling it China's largest ever gift to impoverished West Africa.


China to create blacklist of local journalists (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:35 AM CST

AP - China plans to create a blacklist of journalists who break its reporting rules, state media reported Friday, adding to an array of controls used to restrict its domestic media.

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World Bank gives China $710 million for Sichuan (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:58 AM CST

AP - The World Bank said Friday it will provide a $710 million loan to China to help rebuild areas hit by last year's devastating earthquake.

Car rams gate at US Embassy in Beijing in January (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:20 AM CST

Workers carry out repairs to the damaged gate of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. Three Chinese men in a car rammed a gate at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in late January, but little damage was caused and the incident is being investigated, an embassy spokesman said Friday.  (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Three Chinese men in a car rammed a gate at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in late January, but little damage was caused and the incident is being investigated, an embassy spokesman said Friday.


Tibet's religious life still bruised by Lhasa riots (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:07 PM CST

Reuters - Buddhist monasteries have reopened to the devout in Tibet's regional capital, but nearly a year after monks' protests sparked deadly riots, officials keep a tight grip on traditional hotbeds of discontent.

China's Hu vows to increase Africa investment (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:11 PM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) walks as Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure hosts his counterpart at the presidential Palace in Bamako. Jintao promised Thursday that China would step up its investment in Africa as Beijing looked to his whirlwind tour of Africa to shake off accusations it exploits the continent.(AFP/Habib Kouyate)AFP - President Hu Jintao promised Thursday that China would step up its investment in Africa as Beijing looked to his whirlwind tour of Africa to shake off accusations it exploits the continent.


US intel chief warns against China-Taiwan conflict (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:57 PM CST

Visitors to the National Palace Museum listen to a guide explain the significance of certain cultural artifacts from mainland China on Sunday Jan. 18, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan. The director of Taiwan's world-renowned National Palace Museum, Chou Kung-shin, leaves for a meeting with the counterpart museum in Beijing Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. The meeting comes 60 years after one of the greatest transfers of art in world history — the removal of more than a half million artifacts from Beijing's Forbidden City ahead of the communist takeover of the mainland. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - President Barack Obama's top intelligence adviser says the United States must make sure that China and rival Taiwan both know that military action would be a mistake.


China wants sculptures from Saint Laurent auction (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 01:06 PM CST

AP - China has demanded the return of looted imperial bronzes scheduled to be sold in Paris as part of the estate auction of the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

Official: Tibetan areas closed to foreigners (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:50 AM CST

In this March 14, 2008 file photo, protesters gather around burning debris in the streets of Lhasa, Tibet, China. China has sentenced 76 people and detained more than 950 people so far in last year's anti-government riots in Tibet, state media said Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2008. (AP Photo, File)AP - China is tightening its grip on Tibetan areas in the western part of the country by banning foreigners from the region ahead of the politically sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising.


The Chinese are coming, to buy bargain US homes (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:35 AM CST

Richard Dai, CEO of SouFun Holdings Ltd., talks to people in his office in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. SouFun Holdings Ltd., a real estate web site that is sponsoring a home-buying trip later this month from Beijing to California and New York, has had over 500 applicants of all income levels apply for its overseas tours. Since late 2008, more than 100 local Chinese have traveled with tour groups to the U.S. to view and purchase commercial and residential property and the number is expected to double in the coming months, according to Chen Hang, vice president of real estate at Pittsburgh-based Fortune Group, a real estate company that introduces Chinese to foreclosed commercial property in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - Beijing lawyer Ying Guohua is heading to the United States on a shopping trip, looking not for designer clothes or jewelry, but for a $1 million home in New York City or Los Angeles.


One worker's struggle for a factory job in China (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 10:34 AM CST

Migrant worker Xian Yuguo tries to contact a friend as his village mates, right, wait, after they applied for jobs in Zhangmutou, in Dongguan, in China's southern Guangdong province, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. The group of five migrants, from the same village in Guangxi province, are among millions searching for jobs in the former boomtowns of Guangdong, which has been hit hard by the global economic crisis. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Xian Yuguo has a tattoo on his left arm with the Chinese character for wealth. But the 20-year-old was growing worried as he competed for a job with tens of millions of laborers in China's increasingly wobbly economy.


Rains bring relief from China drought (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:32 AM CST

A pedstrian uses an umbrella on a rainy day in Beijing. Drought-hit regions of northern China enjoyed rare rain on Thursday and more precipitation was expected in coming days, providing relief from a severe drought that threatened vital wheat crops.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Drought-hit regions of northern China enjoyed rare rain on Thursday and more precipitation was expected in coming days, providing relief from a severe drought that threatened vital wheat crops.


Chinalco to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:04 AM CST

In this May 31, 2005 file photo, a Chinese worker collects aluminum for recycling at a smelting plant in the outskirts of Shanghai, China. Aluminum Corp. of China, the world's biggest aluminum producer, agreed Thursday Feb. 12, 2009, to invest $19.5 billion in global miner Rio Tinto Group, the country's biggest overseas investment so far.  (AP Photo, FILE)AP - Aluminum Corp. of China said it will invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto Group, easing the Anglo-Australian miner's heavy debt burden while securing Chinese access to long-coveted mining resources.


China claims victory at UN human rights panel (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:40 AM CST

AP - China claimed victory Thursday after a U.N. panel examined its human rights record and found it to be on track, despite complaints over abuses including Beijing's use of labor camps and widespread allegations of police torture.

China says Tibet 'stable' (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:43 AM CST

The Dalai Lama is awarded with the 16th German Media Prize during a ceremony in Baden-Baden. China said Thursday that Tibet was AFP - China said Thursday that Tibet was "stable", a day after the Dalai Lama warned the Himalayan region could see another uprising as the one-year anniversary of anti-Chinese riots there approaches.


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