2009年8月9日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's most wanted man admits guilt (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:36 PM PDT

AP - The lawyer for China's most-wanted man says his admission of guilt to smuggling won't end his decade-long bid to stay in Canada.

China secrets agency says Rio spied for 6 years (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:33 PM PDT

A stacker/reclaimer places coal in stockpiles after processing at Rio Tinto's Blair Athol Mine in Queensland in this undated handout photograph obtained July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Rio Tinto/HandoutReuters - China's state secrets watchdog has accused mining multinational Rio Tinto of engaging in commercial spying over six years, saying data on Rio computers showed the espionage came at a huge loss to China.


Bomb threat made against Afghan plane: China news agency (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 12:12 PM PDT

An Afghan woman walks past the Kam Air office in Kabul, in 2005. A plane flying from Afghanistan to Urumqi, the capital of China's troubled Xinjiang region, reported a bomb threat but was refused permission to land, the official Chinese news agency said Monday.(AFP/File/Farzana Wahidy)AFP - A plane flying from Afghanistan to Urumqi, the capital of China's troubled Xinjiang region, reported a bomb threat but was refused permission to land, the official Chinese news agency said Monday.


China says plane diverted to Afghanistan by threat (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 11:59 AM PDT

AP - An Afghan plane bound for the restive western Chinese region of Xinjiang was sent back to Afghanistan after a bomb threat, Chinese media said Sunday.

China reports bomb threat on plane in Xinjiang (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:12 AM PDT

AP - China's state news agency says there has been a bomb threat on a plane from Afghanistan scheduled to land in Xinjiang, the restive western region of China that was rocked by ethnic riots last month.

China's east coast battered by typhoon (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 08:44 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, rescuers pull a car out of water in rain in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, on Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. Typhoon Morakot pummeled China's eastern coast Sunday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wu Shuibin)Reuters - Typhoon Morakot battered China's commercial east coast on Sunday, killing a child and flattening houses.


Wen: No plan to halt China's easy credit policy (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:06 AM PDT

AP - China's top economic official cautioned Sunday that the country still faced economic problems and assured jittery investors that easy credit policies aimed at kick-starting a recovery would continue.

Chinese secrets agency says Rio spied for 6 years (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 04:04 AM PDT

AP - A state secrets watchdog has accused mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. of committing economic espionage for six years, saying in a report the spying caused "tremendous harm" to China's economic security.

Clinton: Chinese reassured on US financial health (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:36 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles during a visit at a housing project in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. On a mission to improve ties with Africa's most prosperous nation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with South African President Jacob Zuma and later toured a housing project she had visited twice in the past. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks the Chinese "are breathing a little easier" about the health of the U.S. financial system.


China lifts blockade around plague-stricken town (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:16 PM PDT

In this undated image made from video and released by China's Central China Television, CCTV via APTN on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, a policewoman stands guard outside a hospital where patients are being treated for pneumonic plague in the town of Ziketan, in China's Qinghai province. Public buses were ordered off the roads of the remote Chinese town to control the possible spread of the highly infectious lung disease that has killed three people and seemed poised to claim a fourth victim Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2009, residents and authorities said.  (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)AP - A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.


Nearly 1 mln flee approaching typhoon in China (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:01 PM PDT

Chinese residents gather to remove a fallen tree blocking a road in Changle, in southeast China's Fujian province, on August 8, as Typhoon Morakot hits mainland China. 473,300 residents of the coastal province of Zhejiang reportedly had been moved, while more than 480,000 people were evacuated from neighboring Fujian province.(AFP)AFP - Authorities have evacuated nearly one million people from the southeast coast of China, where Typhoon Morakot was expected to make landfall later on Sunday after lashing Taiwan, state media reported.


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