2009年2月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China scorns U.S. rights record in tit-for-tat exchange (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:21 PM PST

Reuters - China maintained its scornful response to human rights criticism from the United States, throwing back assertions that Washington was culpable for racism, crowded prisons and torture.

China's giant water scheme opens torrent of discontent (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 04:27 PM PST

Reuters - China's vast scheme to channel southern rivers to its parched north faces potentially explosive defiance at a dam where bitter memories and an unsure future are driving farmers to protest the nation-spanning feat.

China punishes Christie's for auction of relics (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 10:55 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 - Beijing swiftly moved to punish auction house Christie's with tightened customs rules Thursday after its protests failed to stop the sale of two imperial bronze sculptures taken from China nearly 150 years ago.

China rejects US rights report as interference (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 08:41 AM PST

AP - China and the United States have sparred again over human rights, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she hoped the ever-prickly issue would not color relations.

Climate change: chance for US-China cooperation (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 08:07 AM PST

Wind turbines in Spain. US President Barack Obama is banking on a landmark carbon gas cap-and-trade system to both fight climate change and pump 80 billion dollars into the Treasury purse to fund renewable energy programs(afp.com/Jose Luis Roca)AP - With climate change emerging as a key issue for both the United States and China, the two countries have a new platform for cooperation and an opportunity to strengthen their often contentious relationship, a leading China expert said Thursday.

China: No melamine found in Wyeth infant formula (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:57 AM PST

AP - Quality inspectors have found no melamine in infant formula produced by U.S. drug maker Wyeth, despite claims from about 20 families that said the milk caused kidney stones in their children, a state news agency reported Thursday.

UN: World drug control efforts face huge problems (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 05:40 AM PST

Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the commemoration on the centennial of the convening of the International Opium Commission Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The global anti-drug effort is failing to effectively combat the emergence of a criminal market of 'staggering proportions,' Costa said Thursday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The world risks losing decades of progress in drug control if it fails to counter the emergence of a criminal market of "staggering proportions," a U.N. official said Thursday.

China insists Tibet open to tourists (AFP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 02:52 AM PST

Tibetans walk past a burning barricade after last year's violent clashes with Chinese security forces in Lhasa. China insists that Tibet has not been closed to foreign tourists as tensions rise over Chinese rule in the Himalayan region, despite travel agencies reporting a government-ordered ban.(AFP/File/Rune Backs)AFP - China insisted on Thursday that Tibet has not been closed to foreign tourists as tensions built over Chinese rule in the Himalayan region, despite travel agencies reporting a government-ordered ban.

Chinese celebs liable for endorsing unsafe foods: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 10:48 PM PST

A woman carries her baby at a child hospital in Beijing. Chinese celebrities will share liability if the food products they endorse prove to be unsafe, such as the tainted milk that caused the deaths of six children last year, under a law to be submitted to China's parliament.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese celebrities will share liability if the food products they endorse prove to be unsafe, under a law to be submitted to China's parliament, state media reported on Thursday.

China invites NKorea's Kim for summit: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 07:35 PM PST

File photo shows Chinese President Hu Jintao. China has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for a summit with Hu as the allies celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, the North's state media has said.(AFP/Pool/File/Eric Feferberg)AFP - China has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for a summit with President Hu Jintao as the allies celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations, the North's state media said Thursday.

Man, woman badly hurt in Beijing immolation bid: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 07:25 PM PST

An ambulance is seen in Beijing. Two of the three people who set themselves on fire in the Chinese capital have suffered serious injuries, state media has reported, revealing for the first time that one was a woman.(AFP/File)AFP - Two of the three people who set themselves on fire in Beijing suffered serious injuries, state media reported on Thursday, revealing for the first time that one was a woman.

Self-immolations in Beijing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 06:53 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - Like many reporters, I rushed down to the Wangfujing pedestrian walkway in Beijing yesterday afternoon when word came out that three people had set their own car afire in what appeared to be self-immolation.

14 poisoned in China after eating pig's liver (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 06:15 PM PST

AP - Fourteen people in southern China have been poisoned after eating pig organs suspected of containing an animal-feed additive, state media said Thursday, the second such outbreak this month.

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