2009年2月14日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China, US to resume military talks: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 11:34 PM CST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make her first visit to China on February 20 as the US government's top envoy where the two nations will resume military consultations that were postponed last year when Washington announced a planned weapons sale to Taiwan.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - China and the United States will resume military consultations this month that were postponed last year when Washington announced a planned weapons sale to Taiwan, state press said Sunday.


Official: Captive Chinese man freed in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 09:37 PM CST

AP - An official says a Chinese engineer held captive by militants for six months in Pakistan has been set free and is safe.

China commentary blasts "Buy American" plan (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 09:29 PM CST

Reuters - China's official Xinhua news agency slammed the "Buy American" requirement of the U.S. economic stimulus package, saying in a commentary that trade protectionism is a "poison" that will harm poor countries.

Chinese president arrives in Tanzania (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 04:03 PM CST

Chinese president Hu Jintao waves during a visit to a construction site of a national theater financed by China in Dakar. Hu arrived in Tanzania late Saturday at the start of a two-day visit to the east African country.(AFP/Seyllou)AFP - China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Tanzania late Saturday at the start of a two-day visit to the east African country.


Chinese president tours Senegal, signs deal (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 08:47 AM CST

China's President Hu Jintao, left, and Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade, right, tour the construction site of Senegal's new national theater, being built by China, in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. Hu was visiting Senegal as part of a four-nation African tour. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - China's president toured the site of a new, Chinese-financed national theater in Senegal on Saturday, a day after signing a bilateral agreement promising the West African nation over $90 million in gifts and loans.


Moderate earthquake hits western China (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 03:06 AM CST

AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a moderate earthquake registering magnitude 4.9 has struck China's far western Xinjiang region.

China to sell assets of scandal-hit milk company (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 02:17 AM CST

A consumer picks up a product of Dumex at a shop Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, in Shanghai, China. China is investigating milk products produced by one of the country's largest dairies and a unit of France's Groupe Danone SA for an unapproved additive and melamine. Both companies insisted their products were safe. (AP Photo)AP - A Chinese court plans to auction off the assets of the Chinese dairy at the heart of a tainted milk scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of children and was blamed for killing six, reports said Saturday.


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