2009年5月19日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Brazil's Lula signs oil, financial agreements with China (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 09:27 AM PDT

Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) applauds with China's President Hu Jintao during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Brazil's president has said in China that the two nations had achieved a century's worth of results in a mere generation, as he witnessed the signing of several large business deals cementing ties.(AFP/POOL/Jason Lee)AFP - Brazil's president said Tuesday in China that the two nations had achieved a century's worth of results in a mere generation, as he witnessed the signing of several large business deals cementing ties.

Petrobras agrees $10 bln loan from Chinese bank (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 08:45 AM PDT

View of an oil platform off the coast of Brazil. Brazilian state oil company Petrobras on Tuesday signed a 10-billion-dollar loan agreement with Beijing-controlled China Development Bank to fund its strategic needs, the company's chairman told reporters.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras Tuesday signed a 10-billion-dollar loan agreement with Beijing-controlled China Development Bank to fund its strategic needs, the company's chairman told reporters.

Brazil's Silva looks to boost ties with China (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 07:54 AM PDT

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, with his wife Marisa walks past the guard of honor upon arrival at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Monday, May 18, 2009. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has arrived in China on a three-day visit highlighting growing trade and investment ties between two of the world's largest developing nations. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China and Brazil signed a raft of agreements Tuesday including a $10 billion loan for the South American country's state energy company and a deal to send oil to China amid stronger ties between the two developing world giants.

China defends Tiananmen crackdown, ignores memoir (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 07:08 AM PDT

Bao Pu, one of the editors of 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang,' shows the book during an interview in Hong Kong Friday, May 15, 2009. His father, Bao Tong, was former Premier Zhao Ziyang's top aide. Weeks before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement's brutal quelling, the Chinese leader ousted for opposing the crackdown has broken his silence in a posthumous memoir that gives a rare insight to the inner workings of the Communist Party during a critical time. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday defended the brutal quelling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, while ignoring questions about a new memoir by a former Communist Party leader ousted for opposing the crackdown.

Coke steps up China juice marketing (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 04:57 AM PDT

Hong Kong pop star Eason Chan kicks off a new Coca-Cola campaign of its Minute Maid juice brand in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, May 19. The Chinese government shot down Coca-Cola's bid to buy a leading Chinese juice maker.(AFP)AFP - Coca-Cola on Tuesday launched a juice marketing offensive in China, making good on a vow to put more power behind its brands after Beijing shot down its bid to buy a leading Chinese juice maker.

China boosts subsidies for car, appliance buyers (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 03:39 AM PDT

AP - China will subsidize purchases of cars and home appliances to replace older models, expanding a program first introduced in rural areas to major cities, the government said Tuesday in its latest move to stimulate the economy.

China brushes aside Zhao's Tiananmen memoirs (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2009 02:37 AM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese government spokesman on Tuesday brushed aside questions about a top official purged for opposing the armed crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, saying the official verdict on the demonstrations still stood.

China releases last Tiananmen 'hooligan' (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2009 01:07 AM PDT

Students and people of Beijing gather in May 1989 in Tiananmen Square in the pro-democracy protest against the Chinese government. The last known prisoner incarcerated for AFP - The last known prisoner incarcerated for "hooliganism" during China's 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement has been released after nearly 20 years in jail, a US-based rights group said.

AP reporter quarantined in China after Cancun stop (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 10:50 PM PDT

An attendant in a surgical mask and hazardous material suit passes lunch stored in plastic bags to Associated Press Cuba correspondent Will Weissert at the Jinjiang Inn, a hotel in Lingang, China, south of Shanghai, on Saturday, May 16, 2009. The Chinese government is sending Mexicans, and other travelers who were recently in Mexico, to a week of mandatory quarantine in the isolated hotel that is closed to the general public to prevent the spread of swine flu. (AP Photo/Monica Medel)AP - There are four of them waiting for us, tottering about the hotel parking lot in yellow biohazard suits.

Last Tiananmen 'hooligan' released from prison (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 09:41 PM PDT

AP - The last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the suppression, a rights group said Tuesday.

New target in China graft sweep (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 08:43 PM PDT

AP - A senior official in southern Guangdong province has been detained in an apparent corruption sweep that has already targeted other major figures in the wealthy region on the cutting-edge of China's economic reforms.

Report: Chinese climber dies on Everest (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 08:30 PM PDT

AP - An amateur Chinese mountain climber died of altitude sickness early Tuesday while descending Mount Everest on the Chinese side just hours after reaching the summit, state media reported.

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