2009年4月23日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China protests Japanese leader's shrine offering (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 10:22 AM PDT

A group of Japan's lawmakers, organized by Yoshinobu Shimamura, center, are led by a shrine priest as they pay their visit to the Yasukuni shrine, a controversial monument for war dead, in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - China protested an offering by Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso to a war shrine seen as a symbol of his country's militarist past, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.


China's decade-long ban on Falun Gong holds firm (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 10:16 AM PDT

File - In this Oct. 1, 2000 file photo, police detain a Falun Gong protester in Tiananmen Square as a crowd watches in Beijing. Now entering its second decade, China's relentless drive to obliterate the Falun Gong spiritual sect had left a human toll ranging from the deaths of followers in custody to the self exile of others and the beatings of their lawyers.  (AP Photo/Chien-min Chung, File)AP - Now entering its second decade, China's relentless drive to obliterate the Falun Gong spiritual sect has left a human toll ranging from the deaths of followers in custody to the self-exile of others and the beatings of their lawyers.


China parades naval might (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 09:45 AM PDT

Chinese naval personnel stand guard on a battleship at Qingdao Port on April 22, 2009. China paraded its warships and nuclear submarines Thursday in an unprecedented display of maritime might attended by 14 other nations to mark the 60th anniversary of its navy.(AFP/POOL/File/Guang Niu)AFP - China paraded its warships and nuclear submarines Thursday in an unprecedented display of maritime might attended by 14 other nations to mark the 60th anniversary of its navy.


China puts naval power on display; pledges peace (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 07:28 AM PDT

A Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine sails during an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Liberation Army Navy Thursday, April 23, 2009 off Qingdao, China's Shandong Province. China on Thursday displayed for the first time its nuclear-powered submarines, a sign of the navy's growing confidence and its aspirations to become a major sea power. (AP Photo/Guang Niu, Pool)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao sought Thursday to reassure the international community over China's rising military strength before presiding over a naval display highlighting Beijing's ambitions of becoming a major sea power.


China slams Japan PM over war shrine offering (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 05:00 AM PDT

Reuters - China slammed Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday for his offering to the Yasukuni shrine for war dead, warning of damage to ties while the two Asian powerhouses grapple with financial woes and North Korea.

Chinese firm recalls tainted luncheon meat: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 04:46 AM PDT

A Chinese workers carries his lunch as he walks towards a construction site in Beijing. A major Chinese meat processor has recalled 100 boxes of luncheon meat containing a banned chemical.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A major Chinese meat processor has recalled 100 boxes of luncheon meat containing a banned chemical, Chinese media reported Thursday.


China urges U.S. not to play host to Dalai Lama (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 02:01 AM PDT

Reuters - China on Thursday urged the United States not to let the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing brands a separatist, visit the country. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who fled his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, starts a visit to the United States this week.

China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 01:58 AM PDT

AP - China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October.

Pollution in Chinese cities 'extremely severe' (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 01:00 AM PDT

A masked cyclist rides her scooter past a power plant in Dezhou, China in late February. Air pollution in the country's cities remains very serious, state media has quoted a minister as saying, amid an ongoing battle to clean up the skies in the world's largest coal-consuming nation.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Air pollution in China's cities remains very serious, state media on Thursday quoted a minister as saying, amid an ongoing battle to clean up the skies in the world's largest coal-consuming nation.


China shows off its expanding, modernizing navy (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 10:29 PM PDT

Reuters - China celebrated its military confidence at sea Thursday, when anniversary celebrations for the founding of its navy climaxed with a show of the warships and submarines projecting its spreading power.
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