2009年8月21日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China market slump not seen as warning signal (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:32 AM PDT

In this Aug. 3, 2009 photo, an investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai market rallied a stunning 90 percent through early August, driven by what many analysts believe is a flood of money diverted into stocks from bank lending to support Beijing's massive stimulus spending. That added to hopes abroad that China would help lift the world from its slump. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - International investors have been unnerved by the recent plunge in China's stock market, fearing it signaled that a global recovery may be stalling, but many analysts say those worries are overblown.


Chinese appliance giant GOME sees profit plunge (AFP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 06:37 AM PDT

Chen Xiao, chairman and president of Gome Electrical Appliances Limited, pictured during an interim results announcement in Hong Kong. GOME said Friday its first-half net profit plunged 49.6 percent as consumers tightened their purse strings amid the downturn.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - China's trouble-plagued electrical appliances giant GOME said Friday its first-half net profit plunged 49.6 percent as consumers tightened their purse strings amid the downturn.


Caterpillar, Navistar eye China truck JV: source (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 04:36 AM PDT

General view of the Caterpillar France site in Grenoble on March 31, 2009. REUTERS/Robert PrattaReuters - Caterpillar and Navistar International Corp are in talks with China's Jianghuai Automobile (600418.SS) to set up a truck venture, a source said, as the firms become the latest foreign players to tap the market dominated by Chinese state auto groups.


Pakistan leader backs China over Xinjiang (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 03:49 AM PDT

A Muslim man watches Chinese paramilitary policemen in riot gear walk under a propaganda banner past the Dong Kuruk Bridge mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 17, 2009. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari backed China's policies in its tense Xinjiang region ahead of his latest visit to the giant neighbor he has wooed as a strategic and economic counterweight to the West, Chinese state media said.


China police nab 11 tomb raiders in Beijing (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 10:54 PM PDT

Police take part in a drill in Beijing on August 11. Police in Beijing have detained 11 suspected tomb raiders who ransacked up to 50 graves in the Chinese capital, most of them dating back to the Qing dynasty, state media said Friday.(AFP/File)AFP - Police in Beijing have detained 11 suspected tomb raiders who ransacked up to 50 graves in the Chinese capital, most of them dating back to the Qing dynasty, state media said Friday.


2nd lead poisoning case hits China, 1,300 sick (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:55 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, village children wait for blood tests at a school in Fengxiang county, Shaanxi province, China, after the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant poisoned hundreds of children More than 1,300 children have been sickened by lead poisoning in Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children this month, state media said Thursday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China has detained two factory officials after 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant, days after emissions from a lead smelter in another province sickened hundreds.


Police investigated in China gang bust (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:28 PM PDT

AP - At least six district police chiefs are being investigated on suspicion of protecting local gangs in a major crackdown on crime in the southwest city of Chongqing, state media said Friday.
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