2009年4月20日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Union asks Obama to curb tire imports from China (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:49 PM PDT

Reuters - The United Steelworkers union filed a petition on Monday asking President Barack Obama to restrict tire imports from China that they said were destroying the U.S. tire industry.

Lennar named in Chinese-made drywall lawsuit (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:42 PM PDT

AP - Homebuilder Lennar Corp. disclosed on Monday it has been named in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of homeowners who bought houses built with Chinese-made drywall and claim it emits gasses that make people sick.

Shanghai Auto Show celebrates leading US in sales (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:29 AM PDT

Porsche's new Panamera sedan is unveiled at the Shanghai International Auto Show on its opening day, Monday, April 20, 2009 in Shanghai, China. World automakers were launching 13 new models Monday as they converged on China's commercial capital for the show, a key showcase for the only major growing car market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The Shanghai Auto Show, once a venue for the West to show off its cars to a country still relying on bicycles, is now a showcase for China's own industry as it overtakes the U.S. in market size.


Is long wait for Chinese aircraft carrier ending? (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 10:56 AM PDT

AP - China's navy has added sophisticated nuclear submarines, destroyers and missile systems, but the holy grail of surface ships — an aircraft carrier — has stayed out on the horizon. That may be about to change.

Study: China's Great Wall is longer than thought (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:16 AM PDT

People walk along the Tiger Mountain Great Wall, northeast of Dandong, in northeast China's Liaoning province. Built during the Ming Dynasty and restored in the 1990's, the wall here is the eastern starting point of the Great Wall that stretches across northern China and forms part of China's border with North Korea.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AP - The Great Wall of China is even greater than once thought.


China launches new English-language newspaper (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:42 AM PDT

A Chinese woman walks past the first issue of Global Times, a new newspaper in Beijing, China, Monday, April 20, 2009. China's Communist Party began publishing the new English-language newspaper in a campaign to push the party line in international media. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - A new English-language paper published by China's Communist Party hit newsstands on Monday — part of Beijing's efforts to raise its profile on the global stage and find an international audience for the party line.


Chinese official in quake zone kills self (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:32 AM PDT

AP - An official whose 7-year-old son was killed in last year's massive earthquake in Sichuan province committed suicide on Monday, state media and the local government said.

China to clamp down on inmate abuse (AP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:37 AM PDT

AP - China plans to clamp down on inmate abuse at its prisons following more than a dozen suspicious deaths this year, according to a report by the country's highest investigative body.

UN says North Korea could restart nuclear facility (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

TV grab from the National Chinese Television shows North Korea demolishing the cooling towers at its Yongbyon nuclear facility in June 2008. North Korea has renewed a threat to AP - The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says North Korea could restart its nuclear facility within months, but that he hopes negotiations on halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions can be revived.


China's Great Wall far longer than thought: survey (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 09:21 PM PDT

A Chinese flag flutters near the Great Wall. The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported Monday.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported Monday.


AIDS treatment still eludes Chinese children (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 07:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Chinese children with AIDS, especially from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist group said on Monday.

China drug scams challenge pharmaceutical firms (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT

Reuters - When Pang Jianli walked into a Beijing pharmacy to buy medicine for his flu-stricken son, he was greeted by an overwhelming display of boxes and bottles emblazoned with promises of miraculous cures.
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