2009年7月17日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China finds new terracotta warriors: state media (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Terracota warriors are displayed at the AFP - Archaeologists in China's northern Xi'an city have excavated another 100 terracotta warriors, including a much-prized army officer, near the tomb of the nation's first emperor, state media said on Friday.

Mosques in Urumqi open for Friday prayers (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 08:35 AM PDT

A Muslim man walks through an alley way leading to Baitulla mosque in Urumqi, China, Friday, July 17, 2009. Security in Urumqi has tightened ahead of Friday Muslim Prayers with riot police and paramilitary soldiers patrolling the streets of the city. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - More than 100 Chinese riot police with shields and wooden sticks lined up directly across the street from a popular mosque during Friday prayers, warning worshippers not to protest again in this western city rocked by the region's worst rioting in decades.

China shuts down legal center, revokes licenses (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 08:28 AM PDT

Chinese lawyers, including Jiang Tianyong, right, Yang Huiwen, second left, and legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, center, get up to leave after a meeting in a restaurant in Beijing, China, Friday July 17, 2009. The lawyers met after Beijing officials shut down a legal research center Friday, the latest move in a new government push to oversee Chinese activist lawyers, who run the risk of being detained, harassed, attacked and threatened with disbarment for their work. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - A legal research center in Beijing was shut down Friday and the licenses of more than 50 lawyers — many known for their politically sensitive human rights work — were revoked in what appeared to be one of China's most drastic moves to restrain activist lawyers.

Security tight as mosques open in China's Urumqi (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 04:50 AM PDT

Uighur Muslims arrive for weekly prayers at the Yanhan mosque in Urumqi. Security forces armed with semi-automatic weapons and batons were deployed in Urumqi as worshippers descended on mosques for the main Muslim day of prayer.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Security forces armed with automatic weapons and wooden clubs fanned out in China's restive Urumqi city Friday as worshippers descended on mosques for the main Muslim day of prayer.

Mosques reopen in China's Xinjiang under heavy security (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 02:24 AM PDT

Armed Chinese paramilitary policemen in riot gear march out of their barracks before the start of Friday's Muslim prayers near the Dong Kuruk Bridge mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 17, 2009. Security remains heavy in ethnic Uighur neighbourhoods of Xinjiang regional capital Urumqi after riots on July 5 between the Muslim Uighur minority and majority Han Chinese wounded more than 1,600. The official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday that 192 people were killed in the riots, and that around 1,000 people have been detained. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA CONFLICT MILITARY RELIGION IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - Mosques reopened for Friday prayers under the watchful eyes of security troops in Urumqi, a riot-torn city on China's far western frontier where 192 people were killed in ethnic attacks earlier this month.

China urges Russian calm on bazaar crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 12:43 AM PDT

A market loader passes by Cherkizovsky bazaar in Moscow. China has called on Russia not to overreact in its clampdown on the city's market, home to tens of thousands of Chinese traders and well-known for its thriving contraband trade.(AFP/File/Tatyana Makeyeva)AFP - China has called on Russia not to overreact in its clampdown on a Moscow bazaar, home to tens of thousands of Chinese traders and well-known for its thriving contraband trade.

Chinese police say protest foreigner still alive (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 10:15 PM PDT

Police in southern China have denied that a man from Nigeria who jumped from a second-floor window while fleeing police had died in his fall, after his rumoured death prompted African migrants to protest.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Police in southern China have denied that a foreign man who jumped from a second-floor window while fleeing police had died in his fall, after his rumoured death prompted African migrants to protest.

Rio rejects Chinese bribe reports (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 08:59 PM PDT

Journalists stand outside a Rio Tinto office in Shanghai July 9, 2009. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - Global miner Rio Tinto on Friday strongly defended its four employees being held in China on accusations of industrial espionage, saying claims they bribed Chinese steel mills were unfounded.

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