2009年3月4日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China backs Sudan leader wanted for war crimes (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:37 PM PST

AP - China urged the International Criminal Court Thursday to drop its arrest warrant for Sudan's leader on war crimes, saying it won't help stabilize the war-scarred Darfur region.

Wen declares China can ride out economic storm (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:35 PM PST

Top leaders of China's ruling Communist party arrive for the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Premier Wen Jiabao confidently declared Thursday that China would be able to ride out the unprecedented challenges of a worsening global crisis and achieve eight percent economic growth this year.

China says ready to talk to Taiwan, end hostility (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:21 PM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reads his work report during the opening session of National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, March 5, 2009. China opened the annual session of its legislature Thursday, its first since the global financial meltdown started last year. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China's Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday that Beijing is ready to hold talks with Taiwan on political and military issues aimed at ending hostility with the rival island.

China promises vigorous spending program (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 05:50 PM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reads his work report during the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, March 5, 2009. China opened the annual session of its legislature Thursday, its first since the global financial meltdown started last year. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - China on Thursday promised a vigorous government spending program, with increased money for infrastructure, social programs and tax cuts to overcome the country's brewing economic crisis.

China says ready to talk peace with Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:57 PM PST

Reuters - China is ready to create the conditions needed to reach a peace agreement with Taiwan, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday in a new overture to the neighboring self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.

China's February official PMI edges towards recovery (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:12 AM PST

Reuters - A key gauge of Chinese manufacturing improved in February for the third month in a row as factories restocked in anticipation of an early revival in the economy despite deepening global gloom.

China to boost defence spending by 14.9% (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:59 AM PST

Chinese sailors take part in a military ceremony in Beijing. China has announced its latest double-digit rise in defence spending but sought to soothe concerns in Asia and the United States by insisting its expanding military posed no threat.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China announced its latest double-digit rise in defence spending on Wednesday but sought to soothe concerns in Asia and the United States by insisting its expanding military posed no threat.

Chinese displaced by Three Gorges Dam protest (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:48 AM PST

AP - More than 2,000 people displaced by construction of the Three Gorges Dam clashed with police in central China during a protest Wednesday over missing resettlement payments, leaving 30 protesters injured, a Hong Kong-based group said.

China's February new loans hit 117 billion dlrs: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:47 AM PST

A bank employee passes 100 yuan notes through a counting machine at a bank in Shanghai. China's banks have extended about 800 billion yuan (US$117 billion) in new loans in February as they heeded government calls to prop up the slowing economy, Chinese media has reported.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China's banks extended about 800 billion yuan (117 billion dollars) in new loans in February as they heeded government calls to prop up the slowing economy, Chinese media reported Wednesday.

Collapsed China quake school to be tourist site: report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 09:03 PM PST

A student helps his schoolmate trapped in the rubble of a high school in Beichuan County, in southwest China's Sichuan province in May 2008 a day after an earthquake measuring a magnitude 7.8 rocked the province. Some of the ruins left by last year's massive earthquake, including a collapsed school, will open to tourists later this month, state media reported Wednesday.(AFP/Xinhua/File)AFP - Some of the ruins left by last year's massive earthquake in southwest China, including a collapsed school, will open to tourists later this month, state media reported Wednesday.

Farmers voice little hope for China's rural reforms (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 08:09 PM PST

A farmer bundles dried stalks of wheat in a field in Cangzhou in China's Hebei Province. Millions of Chinese became urban dwellers overnight after local governments began expanding cities and gobbling up vast tracts of farmland to make way for the nation's fast-paced development. During China's unprecedented 30-year economic boom, as many as 200 million farmers have become urban residents(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Millions of Chinese became urban dwellers overnight after local governments began expanding cities and gobbling up vast tracts of farmland to make way for the nation's fast-paced development.

In switch, China courts accept tainted milk suits (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 08:53 AM PST

Zhao Lianhai, center, the father of a girl sickened after she drank tainted milk formula, speaks to journalists outside the Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Hundreds of families with children sickened in last year's tainted milk scandal are planning to file lawsuits against the dairy companies involved after a top justice official said courts will accept the cases, an organizer of victims' families said Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - For months, courts across China refused to accept the lawsuits from families whose children were killed or sickened in a tainted milk scandal. Now, in a turnaround, hundreds of families are planning to file suit after the country's highest court this week said cases would be accepted.

China's leadership meets under economic storm (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 07:30 AM PST

Hostesses pose for photographers outside Beijing's Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Tuesday March 3, 2009. The advisory body to China's legislature opened its annual session Tuesday, with the legislature, the National People's Congress, due to open on Thursday. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Risk-averse in the best of times, China's Communist Party leadership is expected to use its biggest meeting of the year for an even tighter show of political unity in the face of the global economic crisis and public calls for political change.

China urges bosses to help with labor stability (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:26 AM PST

Reuters - A top Chinese Communist Party official on Tuesday called on private bosses to keep their workers on the payroll as he warned of the impact of "complex and severe" economic conditions on China's stability.

China to doctors: Heal thyself, quit smoking (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 11:10 PM PST

AP - China's health minister has urged doctors and medical workers to quit smoking to set an example to others as China struggles to stamp out the ingrained habit, the China Daily newspaper said Tuesday.

Oasis gets 'Bjorked' (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 08:19 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - The British rock band Oasis won’t be playing gigs in Beijing and Shanghai next month after all. They’ve been Bjorked, which is a way of saying one of their members didn’t pass ideological muster.

Report: Tibetan monks protest New Year prayer ban (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 07:27 PM PST

In this Feb. 28, 2009 file photo, Tibetan monks offer prayers for money near a police car on duty in an area popular with Tibetans in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province. Scores of Buddhist monks in southwestern China are likely under police lock-down after marching in protest over a decades-old ban on prayers during the Tibetan New Year, Tibetan rights advocates said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in China's southwest, rights groups said. It was the latest resistance to Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries in Tibet.

China urges smoking doctors to quit the habit (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 07:25 PM PST

Reuters - China has offered its male doctors, more than half of whom smoke, some urgent medical advice -- quit the habit and set an example to the hundreds of millions of other smokers.

Chinese man bids but won't pay for looted bronzes (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 06:41 PM PST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, smoke caused by a fire billows from a building of the International Trade Plaza in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Monday, March 2, 2009. The fire causing no casualties has been put out. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Sadat)AP - A Chinese art collector revealed himself as the man behind the winning bids for two imperial bronzes auctioned at Christie's over Beijing's objections, then announced he had no intention of paying the $36 million.

Chinese forces surround Tibetan monastery after protest: activists (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 09:54 AM PST

A security guard stands in front of a photo at an exhibition titled '50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet' in Beijing, China on March 1, 2009. Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks held a rally a week before the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising, activist groups said Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks held a rally a week before the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising, activist groups said Monday.

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