2009年5月25日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Speaker Pelosi in China, focuses on clean energy (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 04:45 PM PDT

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, meets with Han Zheng, Shanghai's mayor, unseen, in Shanghai, China, on Monday, May 25, 2009. U.S. House Speaker Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial center of Shanghai on Monday on a visit meant to highlight common goals in promoting clean energy to fight climate change. (AP Photo/Qilai Shen, Pool)AP - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China's financial capital on Monday on a visit focused on environmental issues rather than human rights, though her presence emboldened protesters.


US Speaker Pelosi tours China's financial hub (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 09:40 AM PDT

US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, pictured on May 22, 2009, a tough critic of China's human rights record, visited Shanghai's financial centre Monday, after meeting a leading Chinese Catholic priest.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human rights record, visited Shanghai's financial centre Monday, after meeting a leading Chinese Catholic priest.


Pope seeks urgent reconciliation in China church (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 07:25 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican on Monday urged Catholics in China's underground and official churches to take urgent, practical steps at reconciliation and forgiveness.

China 'resolutely opposed' to NKorean nuke test (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:43 AM PDT

AP - China's government says it is "resolutely opposed" to the nuclear weapons test carried out by communist neighbor and ally North Korea.

PetroChina buys 45.5% of Singapore oil refiner (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2009 03:32 AM PDT

File photo shows drivers lining up at a PetroChina station in Beijing. PetroChina, the listed unit of China's biggest oil and gas producer, said it had agreed to buy a stake in refiner Singapore Petroleum Co. for 1.02 billion dollars.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Oil major PetroChina said Monday it had agreed to buy nearly half of refiner Singapore Petroleum Co. for 1.02 billion dollars in China's latest move to secure resources for its energy-hungry economy.


China still buying record amounts of U.S. bonds: report (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2009 01:23 AM PDT

Reuters - China's official foreign exchange manager is still buying record amounts of U.S. government bonds, in spite of Beijing's increasingly vocal fear of a dollar collapse, the Financial Times reported.

China's herders plea for help as wolf packs return (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 11:55 PM PDT

Wolves in China were hunted to near extinction after the country's Communist leader Mao Zedong encouraged the eradication of the animal viewed as a threat to his utopian vision for agricultural production, but mounting attacks on livestock by the creatures - now protected - have sparked calls by herders and some local governments for resumed hunting of the predator.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Scanning the vast northern China steppe surrounding him, Delger leans on a wooden staff that is his herd's only protection against a lethal enemy that is out there, somewhere.


China plans 440-bln dlr stimulus for green energy (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 11:34 PM PDT

File photo shows a man standing beneath a wind turbine that generates electricity at the Dongtan Eco-City project on Chongming Island near Shanghai. China is planning a stimulus package worth 440 billion dollars to expand its renewable energy use, state media said, as the country aims to rely more on cleaner ways to power its growth.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China is planning a stimulus package worth 440 billion dollars to expand its renewable energy use, state media said, as the country aims to rely more on cleaner ways to power its growth.


bnzv