2009年4月30日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China urges "big picture" view in North Korea talks (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 11:51 AM PDT

North Koreans clap during a central reporting convention celebrating Labour Day on May 1 at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang April 30, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA. The sign reads: Reuters - China said on Thursday the possibility of North Korea conducting a second nuclear test was "hypothetical," so it could not say how it would affect relations.


Ex-Tiananmen convicts still struggling to survive (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 11:39 AM PDT

Zhang Yanshen, 41, poses  after an interview at a cafe in Beijing, China, on  Wednesday, April 29, 2009. When Zhang was 21 years old, he was sentenced to life in prison for stealing a videotape and tossing it into a burning army truck in the early hours of June 4, 1989. The tape filmed by paramilitary guards showed people trying to block the army's advance toward the democracy demonstrators occupying Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - For some imprisoned in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, getting out of jail has not meant freedom.


Forced abortions shake up China wombs-for-rent industry (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 10:38 AM PDT

Reuters - With China's rising affluence, increasing numbers of infertile couples have been seeking surrogate mothers to bear them babies.

Aso calls for Japan, China to unite (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:37 AM PDT

China's President Hu Jintao (right) talks with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Aso has called for Tokyo and Beijing to unite in facing the world's environmental and economic challenges, while playing down concerns over China's military power.(AFP/Pool/Jason Lee)AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday called for Tokyo and Beijing to unite in facing the world's environmental and economic challenges, while playing down concerns over China's military power.


China reopens border with North Korea to tourists (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:11 AM PDT

AP - China has reopened its land border to tourists traveling to North Korea after a three-year break, with a group of 71 tourists visiting the isolated country, state media reported Thursday.

Japan and China talk up cooperation, sidestep tensions (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:54 AM PDT

Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso held out agreements on fighting the financial crisis, global warming and swine flu as evidence of deepening ties with sometime rival China Thursday, sidestepping tensions over the past.

China Mobile in ground-breaking Taiwan investment (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 12:33 AM PDT

China Mobile has said it plans to take a 529 million dollar stake in a top Taiwan telecom firm in what would be the first major direct investment by a mainland company in the island since a 1949 split. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator by users, said it would buy a 12 percent stake in Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications for about $529 mln.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China Mobile has said it plans to take a 529 million dollar stake in a top Taiwan telecom firm in what would be the first major direct investment by a mainland company in the island since a 1949 split.


Taiwan to have observer status in UN health body (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 07:48 PM PDT

AP - Taiwan said it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key U.N. body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou's campaign to win greater international recognition for the democratic island.
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