2009年5月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China's consumer prices fall, lending spree eases (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 08:39 AM PDT

Chart shows year-over-year change in China's consumer price index1c x 3 1/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 79 mm;AP - China's bout of deflation persisted in April, as consumer prices fell 1.5 percent from elevated levels a year earlier, but analysts said they expect prices to start heading upward later in the year.


China consumer price index falls 1.5 pct. in April (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:59 AM PDT

Chart shows year-over-year change in China's consumer price index1c x 3 1/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 79 mm;AP - China's inflation rate fell for the third month in a row in April as prices for foods and energy plunged from high levels the year before.


China's inflation weakens further in April (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:50 AM PDT

Guests at the opening of a fashion store in Beijing in late April. China's inflation weakened further in April, with the consumer price index falling 1.5 percent from a year ago, the government has said.(AFP/File/Lilian Wu)AFP - China's inflation weakened further in April as the economy was hit by its most serious slowdown in nearly two decades, but analysts said the risk of deflation causing any damage was abating.


Chinese police make arrests in fake magazine scam (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:42 AM PDT

AP - Chinese police have arrested two alleged scam artists who solicited bribes from officials in return for positive coverage in their phony magazine, a newspaper reported Monday.

Luxury brands look to China for cushion in crisis (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:10 AM PDT

In this April 15, 2009 photo, Chinese shop at a Louis Vuitton fashion boutique in Beijing, China. Sales of designer clothing, jewelry and other goods in China are expected to climb at least 7 percent this year while global industry revenues could fall by 10 percent, consulting firm Bain & Co. says. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Clutching a fistful of shopping bags from designers Vivienne Westwood, Dior and Alexander McQueen as she concluded one of her twice-monthly shopping sprees, 29-year-old Zhao Bing looked like the picture of hope for luxury retail.


Hope mixes with grief among China quake survivors (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 12:54 AM PDT

A woman cries in the earthquake-ravaged town of Beichuan in China's Sichuan province on May 10. On the eve of the first anniversary of the natural disaster, the tragedy still haunts the survivors in this mountainous region.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - Gong Guilin lost both his legs in last year's massive Sichuan earthquake. Now he dreams of becoming a Paralympic tennis player.


U.S. risks "lost decade" due to half-steps: Krugman (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2009 12:47 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States risks a Japan-style lost decade of growth if it does not take aggressive action to stimulate its economy and clean up its banking system, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said on Monday.
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