2009年2月25日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Disputed Chinese bronzes sell at auction (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 11:34 AM PST

A tourist takes picture of the posters advertising an exhibit showing sculptures of bronze heads from the Chinese zodiac disappeared in 1860, when French and British forces sacked the former Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing at the close of the second Opium War, at the ruins of the former Summer Palace in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. China said Tuesday that it was 'ridiculous' for the longtime partner of French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent who owns two Chinese imperial bronzes to say he would return the relics to Beijing if the government gave Tibet freedom. The disputed Chinese bronze fountainheads of a rabbit and a rat are due for sale at a three-day Paris auction of art from the collection of the late French fashion designer, while China has opposed the auction, saying the artifacts should be returned. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Two bronze Chinese sculptures have been sold at a Paris auction, despite pressure from China to return them.

Correction: China-Reluctant Maids story (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 10:40 AM PST

AP - In a Feb. 19 story about Chinese university graduates taking jobs as housekeepers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted the general manager of a training school and placement service for domestics saying her agency has yet to receive an application from a man.

Tibetans mark their new year with mourning period (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 08:46 AM PST

Tibetan monks take part in a prayer session to mark Tibetan New Year's Day, at the Lama Temple in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. Overseas activists have called for a boycott of Tibetan New Year celebrations to mark the upcoming anniversary of the crackdown on anti-government riots and protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Trading fireworks for somber prayer, Tibetans marked Wednesday's arrival of their new year with mourning as Chinese authorities sealed off Tibet and Tibetan regions in western China to foreigners.

China: Car with 3 inside burns near Tiananmen (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 08:06 AM PST

A police car patrols the intersection, where three men are said to have set themselves on fire earlier in the day, just east of Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. It was not known whether the men had survived the fire. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - A passenger car at an intersection near Beijing's Tiananmen Square caught fire Wednesday with three people inside, police said, in what may have been a desperate attempt to draw attention to personal grievances.

China ramps up subsidies for energy-efficient light bulbs (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 07:55 AM PST

A volunteer hands out power-saving light bulbs to Chinese residents to encourage them to save on electricity in Beijing in June 2008. China said it would subsidise the sale of 100 million energy-efficient light bulbs this year to cut energy use and pollution, double the number subsidised in 2008.(AFP/File)AFP - China said it would subsidise the sale of 100 million energy-efficient light bulbs this year to cut energy use and pollution, double the number subsidised in 2008.

3 more bodies found at China coal mine blast site (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 05:35 AM PST

Rescuers wait to get down the site of a coal mine blast in Gujiao, Shanxi province February 22, 2009, file photo. REUTERS/StringerAP - Three more bodies were found Wednesday at a coal mine that was the site of China's worst industrial accident in a year, bringing the death toll from the underground explosions to 77, a state news agency said.

Chairman of China's Ping An 'skips 2008 pay' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 05:08 AM PST

Peter Ma Mingzhe, chairman and CEO of China's Ping An Insurance, pictured in 2007. Ma will give up his salary for 2008, the company said Wednesday, after the firm's disastrous investment in ailing European financial group Fortis.(AFP/File/Woody Wu)AFP - The chairman of China's Ping An Insurance Group will give up his salary for 2008, the company said Wednesday, after the firm's disastrous investment in ailing European financial group Fortis.

Russia says stolen weapons heading to China found (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 04:08 AM PST

AP - Russian news agencies are quoting a senior prosecutor as saying that his office has exposed an attempt by military officers to smuggle $18 million worth of stolen Russian weapons to China.

Three protesters in Beijing immolation bid: police (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:57 AM PST

A Chinese policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Three men attempted to set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in protest over an unspecified grievance.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Three men attempted to set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Wednesday in protest over an unspecified grievance, police in the capital said.

Three set themselves on fire in Beijing: report (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:24 AM PST

Reuters - Three people set themselves on fire in the heart of downtown Beijing on Wednesday, state media said, and city police said they appeared to have come to the capital to voice "personal complaints."

China warns illegal food additives a problem (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:22 AM PST

In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a Chinese worker checks ingredients in milk products in a lab of Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China's largest dairy producers, in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia region. China's food industry still suffers from the use of dangerous illegal additives, a health official said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, vowing to widen a national crackdown to stop the practice a few months after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk products that sickened thousands of children. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - China's food industry still suffers from the use of dangerous illegal additives, a health official said Tuesday, vowing to widen a national crackdown to stop the practice a few months after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk products that sickened thousands of children.

Tibetans begin New Year with crackdown warning (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 12:48 AM PST

Monks take part in a ceremony at the Tibetan Buddhist Lama temple in Beijing. Tibetans began their New Year Wednesday amid heavy security in the Himalayan region following a warning from the Dalai Lama that Chinese authorities were plotting a crackdown of AFP - Tibetans began their New Year Wednesday amid heavy security in the Himalayan region following a warning from the Dalai Lama that Chinese authorities were plotting a crackdown of "unimaginable" force.

China to set up central food safety body: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 12:41 AM PST

A meat vendor butchers the carcass of a sheep as people shop at a market in Beijing. China will set up a central food safety commission to help cut down on the country's repeated scandals involving dangerous food products, state media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China will set up a central food safety commission to help cut down on the country's repeated scandals involving dangerous food products, state media said on Wednesday.

China's environment problems serious: minister (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:24 PM PST

View of a rubbish dump on the edge of a drought affected Poyang lake in Jiangxi province. China's environmental problems remain serious with local governments not putting enough pressure on businesses to control pollution, the nation's environment protection minister has admitted.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China's environmental problems remain serious with local governments not putting enough pressure on businesses to control pollution, the nation's environment protection minister has said.

China opens bidding on moon probe technology (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 10:19 PM PST

Reuters - China will open competitive bidding so that domestic schools and institutions can help build crucial parts of the country's moon exploration craft, an official newspaper said on Wednesday.

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