2009年6月19日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Chinese president Hu visits Croatia (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 11:21 AM PDT

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) shakes hand with his Croatian counterpart Stjepan Mesic upon their arrival at Zagreb airport. Hu arrived in Croatia on Friday for a two-day visit, the first by a Chinese head of state since the independence of the ex-Yugoslav republic in 1991, an AFP photographer said.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan)AFP - President Hu Jintao arrived in Croatia on Friday for a two-day visit, the first by a Chinese head of state since the independence of the ex-Yugoslav republic in 1991, an AFP photographer said.


U.S., Chinese military officials to meet next week (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 08:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Top U.S. and Chinese military officials will meet next week to discuss North Korea and maritime conflicts with the aim of improving cooperation between Beijing and Washington, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Google to step up anti-porn efforts in China (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2009 file photo, a woman talks on her cell phone while using a laptop at a ceremony to launch Google's free music download service for China in Beijing. Google Inc. said Friday, June 19, 2009, that it would step up efforts to stop pornography reaching Google users in China after a mainland watchdog found the search engine turned up a large number of links to obscene and vulgar sites. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - Google Inc. said Friday that it was working to block pornography reaching users of its Chinese service after a mainland watchdog found the search engine turned up large numbers of links to obscene and vulgar sites.


China ministry "regrets" U.S. tire trade finding (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:24 AM PDT

Reuters - China's Ministry of Commerce expressed "deep regret" at a U.S. trade panel ruling that Chinese tires had flooded the U.S. market, the first step in what could be the Obama administration's first trade dispute with Beijing.

Chinese TV employees suspended for Tiananmen broadcast (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:21 AM PDT

A man walks past a banner, printed with a photo of a man standing in front of tanks during the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, at Hong Kong's Victoria Park June 4, 2009. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - Several staff at a Chinese television station were suspended from their jobs after footage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests slipped past censors and was broadcast to the public, a human rights group said on Friday.


Dams on China's Yellow River near collapse (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:08 AM PDT

A boat passes along the Pengxi River near the Three Gorges Dam in southwest China. Several dams on China's mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns that over 40 percent of the nation's reservoirs are unsafe, state media has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Several dams on China's mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns that over 40 percent of the nation's reservoirs are unsafe, state media has said.


China ends nine-month IPO ban (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 11:14 PM PDT

The skyline of Beijing's central business district. China will end a nine-month ban on initial public offerings, or IPOs, with a share sale by Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical, the company has said in a statement.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China will end a nine-month ban on initial public offerings, or IPOs, with a share sale by Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical, the company has said in a statement.


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