2009年5月8日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China's panda programme struggling after quake (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 07:54 AM PDT

File photo shows a giant panda at a new panda breeding research centre in Ya'an in southwest China's Sichuan province. China's quest to save the giant panda has been hit hard by last year's massive Sichuan earthquake, which destroyed a vital food source, inhibited its sex drive and sent tourism revenues diving.(AFP/File)AFP - China's quest to save the giant panda has been hit hard by last year's massive Sichuan earthquake, which destroyed a vital food source, inhibited its sex drive and sent tourism revenues diving.

Mystery worms turn on northwest China herdsmen (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2009 07:00 AM PDT

Reuters - An invasion of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said Friday.

Cause of China quake school collapses not yet found (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:53 AM PDT

A father waits for rescue workers to dig through rubble in the hope of finding his child at a primary school in Hanwang town in Sichuan province in May 2008. China said Friday it had not yet identified why a large number of schools collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, killing thousands of students and devastating bereaved parents.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China said Friday it had not yet identified why a large number of schools collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, killing thousands of students and devastating bereaved parents.

China vehicle sales hit monthly high of 1.15 mln (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:10 AM PDT

AP - China's vehicle sales jumped 25 percent in April from the year before to a record monthly high of 1.15 million units, according to industry figures released Friday.

China vice premier: world economy to get worse (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 03:40 AM PDT

AP - The global financial crisis is still spreading and the world economy is going to get worse before getting better, China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan said in a commentary published Friday.

ExxonMobil starts work on Shanghai tech centre (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:32 AM PDT

ExxonMobil Chemical has broken ground on a 70-million-dollar research and development centre in Shanghai to support its operations in the region. About 200 staff will be employed at the facility due to open in 2010 to develop and test polymer and polyethylene-based compounds, said officials at the company, which is part of US energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AFP - ExxonMobil Chemical broke ground on a 70-million-dollar research and development centre in Shanghai that it says will refocus the global company on growth in Asia.

BOC to withdraw from financing venture with Peugeot (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 11:08 PM PDT

Customers leave a branch of the Bank of China in Shanghai. Bank of China, one of the country's leading state-run banks, said it is selling its stake in an auto-financing venture with local maker Dongfeng Motors Group and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Bank of China, one of the country's leading state-run banks, said it is selling its stake in an auto-financing venture with local maker Dongfeng Motors Group and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen.

A year on, China quake survivors face uncertain future (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 09:26 PM PDT

A visitor mourns for victims of the Sichuan earthquake at the Donghekou Earthquake Site Park in Qingchuan County, Sichuan province December 26, 2008. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A massive earthquake toppled Huang Liangju's house a year ago, and she still winces when the hills shudder above her makeshift shelter of planks and plastic sheets.

World must pressure China over Tiananmen: dissidents (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 08:40 PM PDT

A young man adresses the crowd gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in May 1989, during a pro-democracy protest against the government. Dissident victims of China's crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have called for world pressure on Beijing to reverse the official verdict on the incident as its 20th anniversary is approaching.(AFP/File/Catherine Henriette)AFP - Dissident victims of China's crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have called for world pressure on Beijing to reverse the official verdict on the incident as its 20th anniversary is approaching.

China vice premier says world economy to worsen: report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT

Reuters - China's vice premier Wang Qishan said the global financial crisis is spreading and the economy will get worse before it gets better, in a written article in the Financial Times on Friday.

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