2009年8月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Exxon, China sign $41 billion Australian gas deal (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 12:01 PM PDT

A Mobil gas station is seen in Medford, Massachusetts April 30, 2008, one day before Exxon Mobil reports its first-quarter earnings. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Australia and China struck their biggest trade deal on Tuesday, as the world's two most valuable listed oil companies, Exxon Mobil Corp and PetroChina (601857.SS), reached a $41 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) agreement.

Chinese mayor apologizes for lead poisoning (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 09:04 AM PDT

A village woman holds her child waiting for blood test near the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. smelting plant in Baoji city, west of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Dai Zhengshe, the mayor of Baoji city, apologized to residents living near a smelter after hundreds of children were apparently poisoned by lead from the plant, prompting clashes between angry parents and police in recent days, a state news agency said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - A mayor apologized to residents of two Chinese villages where more than 600 children were sickened by lead poisoning, saying a nearby smelter targeted by angry protests would not reopen until it meets health standards, state media said Tuesday.

Over 8,000 boats 'stranded' on China river (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 05:13 AM PDT

A cargo ship, loaded with containers, sails down the Yangtze River in China. More than 8,000 cargo ships and boats were stuck on a river in east China in the worst bottleneck in a decade, after water levels rose to a record high due to Typhoon Morakot, state media have said.(AFP/File/Chai Hin Goh)AFP - More than 8,000 cargo ships and boats were stuck on a river in east China in the worst bottleneck in a decade, after water levels rose to a record high due to Typhoon Morakot, state media said Tuesday.

China legal activist arrested in alleged tax crime (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 04:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 17, 2009 file photo, legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, is seen at a meeting in Beijing, China. Xu, a Chinese legal activist whose rights group has tackled some of the country's most politically sensitive cases has been formally arrested on suspicion of evading taxes, though he has not yet been charged, his lawyer said Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - A Chinese legal activist whose rights group has tackled some of the country's most politically sensitive cases has been formally arrested on suspicion of evading taxes, though he has not yet been charged, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Sinopec completes China's biggest foreign takeover (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 03:33 AM PDT

AP - Sinopec Group said Tuesday it has completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of Addax Petroleum, obtaining new reserves in Africa and the Middle East in China's biggest foreign corporate takeover to date.

Dell, China Mobile to develop smartphone (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 01:35 AM PDT

Dell has teamed up with China's largest mobile operator to develop a smartphone, a spokeswoman for China Mobile has said, in a deal that would mark the US computer giant's debut in the market.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Dell has teamed up with China's largest mobile operator to develop a smartphone, a spokeswoman for China Mobile said Tuesday, in a deal that would mark the US computer giant's debut in the market.

China could see emissions peak in 2030: govt panel (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 12:31 AM PDT

Smoke billows from a smokestack in Beijing. China could see its greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2030 if it sets 'quantitative' reduction targets and invests heavily in the use of clean fuel technologies, a government panel of experts has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China could see its greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2030 if it sets "quantitative" reduction targets and invests heavily in the use of clean fuel technologies, a government panel of experts has said.

China court jails eight Tibetans: rights group (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 12:25 AM PDT

A Tibetan man (left) watches as Chinese paramilitary troops march through the streets of Guomaying in northwest China's Qinghai province, a vast region on the Tibetan plateau. A court in northwest China has sentenced eight Tibetans to jail for terms ranging up to seven years for involvement in unrest earlier this year, an overseas Tibetan rights group has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A court in northwest China has sentenced eight Tibetans to jail terms ranging up to seven years for involvement in unrest earlier this year, an overseas Tibetan rights group said.

China cancels Australia visit as relations sour (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 12:13 AM PDT

Reuters - China's cancellation of a senior ministerial visit to Australia has pushed ties to a fresh low at a time when political tensions over Beijing's arrest of an Australian mining executive had appeared to be easing.

Australia says China canceled minister's visit (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 12:07 AM PDT

AP - China canceled a senior minister's trip in anger at Australia's granting of a visa to an exiled Uighur activist in the latest sign that ties between the two countries are strained.

Over 1,500 held in China crackdown: state media (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:35 PM PDT

File photo shows a Chinese police officer outside a court. Authorities in southwest China's Chongqing city have detained over 1,500 suspects in a widening crackdown on organised crime that has implicated several senior officials, state media said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Police in southwest China's Chongqing city have detained more that 1,500 suspects in a widening crackdown on organised crime that has implicated several senior officials, state media said Tuesday.

Global warming benefits to Tibet: Chinese official (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:26 PM PDT

Tibetan nomads pass along a road through a vast region of the Tibetan plateau known as Amdo. Global warming could prove devastating for the region, the world's third-largest store of ice, but it helps farming and tourism, Chinese state media said Tuesday, citing a leading expert.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Global warming could prove devastating for the Tibetan plateau, the world's third-largest store of ice, but it helps farming and tourism, Chinese state media said Tuesday, citing a leading expert.

Report: 8 Tibetans jailed over protests in China (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:18 PM PDT

Young Tibetan exiles shout slogans against the Chinese government during a protest, at the entrance of a United Nations office in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug 14, 2009. A group of Tibetans participated in a demonstration urging the U.N. to draw attention to the Chinese government's suppression and human rights violations in Tibet. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks and lay people have been sentenced to up to seven years in prison over a March attack on a police station in western China, a Tibetan human rights monitoring group said.

China punishes 60 in disco fire (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 08:35 PM PDT

AP - China has punished 60 people deemed responsible for a blaze at the "King of the Dancers" disco that killed 44 people in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen.

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