2009年6月20日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Croatia needs Chinese investments, Hu Jintao told (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 11:54 AM PDT

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) shakes hands with his Croatian counterpart Stjepan Mesic after their meeting in Zagreb. Debt-stricken Croatia, ravaged by the financial crisis, actively seeks Chinese investment, a business forum leader told Hu on Saturday.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan)AFP - Debt-stricken Croatia, ravaged by the financial crisis, actively seeks Chinese investment, a business forum leader told the visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday.


City in central China rocked by violent riots: residents (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 11:37 AM PDT

Police inspectors patrol the streets in China in February 2009. Police were struggling to restore order Saturday in a central China city hit by riots following a man's death in a government-linked hotel, local residents and a human rights group said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Police were struggling to restore order Saturday in a central China city hit by riots following a man's death in a government-linked hotel, local residents and a human rights group said.


Study: Beijing's air worse than at past Olympics (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 06:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 31, 2008 file photo, a child covered by an umbrella stands near the Beijing Olympic Games logo at Tiananmen Square on a hazy day in Beijing. Beijing's notoriously dirty air got cleaner during last summer's Olympic Games but weather conditions played a larger role in clearing up the air than the government's massive pollution control measures, a new report says.  (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Beijing's notoriously dirty air was cleaner during last summer's Olympic games, but pollution levels were still much worse than at recent Olympics, despite a massive Chinese cleanup campaign, a new report said.


Tibet drought worst in 30 years: Chinese state media (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2009 01:31 AM PDT

A Tibetan herdsman monitors his flock of sheep from a distance outside Tongde. A drought in Tibet has intensified into the region's worst in three decades, leaving thousands of hectares parched and killing more than 13,000 head of cattle, China's state media has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A drought in Tibet has intensified into the region's worst in three decades, leaving thousands of hectares parched and killing more than 13,000 head of cattle, China's state media said Saturday.


NZ dad who dumped toddler guilty of wife's murder (AP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 08:44 PM PDT

AP - A New Zealander was found guilty Saturday of his wife's murder in a case that sparked an international manhunt after he abandoned his toddler at a train station and fled to the United States.

Google vows to fight porn in China after govt rebuke (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 08:13 PM PDT

Chinese youths play online games at a Internet cafe in Beijing in 2007. Internet giant Google promised Friday to work harder to eliminate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Internet giant Google promised to work harder to eliminate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services.


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