2009年8月2日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's stimulus-fueled stock boom alarms Beijing (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 10:11 AM PDT

AP - The middle-aged crowd in the packed Guosen Securities office jostle around buzzing printers that spit out receipts for their share buys, hoping to cash in on China's stimulus-fueled stock market boom.

China's Cosplay craze blurs fantasy and reality (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 08:37 AM PDT

Cosplay competitors parade during the final of China's national competition during the 7th annual China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (referred to as ChinaJoy) in Shanghai. With roots in Japanese pop culture, cosplay (short for costume role play) involves dressing up in costumes and makeup to emulate characters from comic books, movies and video games.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - The skeleton warriors briefly stumbled backward but kept lumbering toward 23-year-old Zhao Jing as she blasted them with two oversized six-shooters in a battle set to pounding music.


Chinese police arrest another 319 in Xinjiang probe (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 06:18 AM PDT

Chinese armed security forces man their positions in Urumqi, in northwest China's Xinjiang province, July 2009. Police in the northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang have arrested hundreds of people in connection with disturbances that left at least 197 people dead, state media reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Police in the northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang have arrested hundreds of people in connection with disturbances that left at least 197 people dead, state media reported Sunday.


China energy efficiency 'improves in first half' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:14 AM PDT

View of the Hong Kong skyline as seen from Kowloon. China cut its average energy consumption by 3.53 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year ago, helped by massive stimulus spending on green projects, the government has said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China cut its average energy consumption by 3.53 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year ago, helped by massive stimulus spending on green projects, the government said Sunday.


China bans bad breath in space: report (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:58 AM PDT

China became the third nation to put a man in space when Yang Liwei (pictured) piloted the one-man Shenzhou-5 space mission in 2003. Bad breath is enough to fail the test to enter China's manned space programme, state media said -- but the final green light for blast-off is given by the hopeful astronaut's wife.(AFP/AFP/XINHUA/File)AFP - Bad breath is enough to fail the test to enter China's manned space programme, state media said Sunday -- but the final green light for blast-off is given by the hopeful astronaut's wife.


China suspends 2 environment bosses for pollution (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 11:13 PM PDT

AP - Authorities in central China suspended two environment officials and detained a chemical plant boss after hundreds of residents protested, claiming the factory polluted a river and caused at least two deaths in the area, an official said Sunday.

China steel output to grow despite falling demand (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 10:59 PM PDT

A security guard is seen siting atop a pile of steel poles at a Beijing construction site. China, the world's top maker and consumer of steel, expects crude steel output in 2009 to exceed the total for last year, despite efforts to cut production amid falling demand, state media said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China, the world's top maker and consumer of steel, expects crude steel output in 2009 to exceed the total for last year, despite efforts to cut production amid falling demand, state media said on Sunday.


Man dies from plague in China, 11 others infected (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 09:44 PM PDT

AP - Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said.

China keeps US waiting on North Korea's future (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 09:01 PM PDT

AP - U.S. attempts to draw up a broad contingency plan in case North Korea's government collapses are being complicated by China's refusal to talk about potential chaos engulfing its dysfunctional neighbor.
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