2009年5月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China to focus on energy efficiency post-Kyoto: state media (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 09:06 AM PDT

A woman transports a child on the back of a tricycle near a coal-fired power station on the outskirts of Beijing in 2008. China may pledge to improve its energy efficiency by a wide margin in the post-Kyoto years rather than commit to direct cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, state media said Friday.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - China may pledge to improve its energy efficiency by a wide margin in the post-Kyoto years rather than commit to direct cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, state media said Friday.


China pledges more help for exporters as FDI falls (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 04:21 AM PDT

Chinese employees work on the assembly line building compressors at the Brazilian factory Embraco in Beijing , China, Thursday, May 14, 2009.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - China is urging its banks to be careful about how they dole out a flood of credit, while promising new help for exporters and other companies hamstrung by the economic slowdown.


Bullet pulled from woman's head after 42 years (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 03:07 AM PDT

A file photo of used bullets. Doctors in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media said Friday.(AFP/File/PATRICK BAZ)AFP - Doctors in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media said Friday.


Rio Tinto says still committed to Chinalco deal (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:22 AM PDT

AP - Debt-laden miner Rio Tinto Ltd. said Friday it remains committed to a $19.5 billion deal with China's Chinalco, pouring cold water on market speculation it might be backing away from the tie-up.

Foreign investment in China down 22.5 pct in April (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 09:47 PM PDT

A Chinese employee works on the assembly line building compressors at the Brazilian factory Embraco in Beijing , China, Thursday, May 14, 2009.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - China's foreign direct investment fell in April for a seventh month as companies cut back amid the global financial crisis, the Commerce Ministry said Friday.


Foreign direct investment falls again in China (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 09:39 PM PDT

View of the city is seen from a historical building in Beijing. Foreign direct investment in China has dropped 22.5 percent year-on-year in April for the seventh straight monthly fall, according to the commerce ministry.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Foreign direct investment in China has dropped 22.5 percent year-on-year in April for the seventh straight monthly fall, according to the commerce ministry.


Tiananmen revelations face China censors' great wall (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2009 09:33 PM PDT

Former reformist Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang reads a newspaper in the garden of his home in central Beijing in this undated photo taken in 1994. REUTERS/New Century Media and Consulting Co., Ltd.Reuters - Memoirs of purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang are sure to encounter silence and censorship from the Communist Party, afraid of rekindling memories of the bloodshed around Tiananmen Square that accompanied his 1989 downfall.


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