2009年4月25日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Tibetan students protest in China (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 12:32 PM PDT

Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims pray during a ceremony at the sacred Labrang Monastery in the town of Xiahe, Gansu Province in 2008. Hundreds of students at a Tibetan school in China's northwest held a daring protest, demonstrating over education conditions, locals and an overseas Tibetan group said Saturday.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Hundreds of students at a Tibetan school in China's northwest held a daring protest, demonstrating over education conditions, locals and an overseas Tibetan group said Saturday.


China's gold reserves top 1,000 tonnes: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 09:03 AM PDT

Gold bars at a bank depot. China's gold reserves rose 75 percent from 2003 to 2008, state media said, reporting that Beijing now had the world's fifth largest holdings of the precious metal.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - China's gold reserves rose 75 percent from 2003 to 2008, state media said, reporting that Beijing now had the world's fifth largest holdings of the precious metal.


Profits rise for China's oil firms: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 09:03 AM PDT

A man rides his scooter past oil rigs in Cangzhou, in northern China's Hebei Province where PetroChina and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) drill for oil. China's top five oil companies saw profits rise by 13.2 percent in March from a year earlier, despite falling production and sales revenue, state media reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's top five oil companies saw profits rise by 13.2 percent in March from a year earlier, despite falling production and sales revenue, state media reported Saturday.


China postal law revision seen eroding competition: report (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 09:02 AM PDT

File photo shows people leaving a Beijing post office. China's parliament has revised the nation's postal law in a move that will ban foreign delivery companies from handling domestic express mail, state press reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - China's parliament has revised the nation's postal law in a move that will ban foreign delivery companies from handling domestic express mail, state press reported Saturday.


Asia protests, Beijing quiet on Falungong anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 05:48 AM PDT

Falungong members march in Hong Kong to protest China's ban on the group. Despite demonstrations around Asia, Beijing was quiet Saturday a decade after the spiritual group Falungong was outlawed as an evil cult and made the subject of a brutal crackdown.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Despite demonstrations around Asia, Beijing was quiet Saturday a decade after the spiritual group Falungong was outlawed as an evil cult and made the subject of a brutal crackdown.


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