2009年8月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

11 miners dead in northern China mine blast (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:36 PM PDT

AP - China's official Xinhua News Agency says 11 people have died in a coal mine gas blast in northern Shanxi province and three are missing.

Gritty Chinese city seeks to shed 'spitting' image (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:40 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, workers eat a meal at a construction site near the new TV tower in the southern city of Guangzhou, China. Guangzhou, China's third-wealthiest metropolis wants to win the coveted 'Civilized City' award an annual ritual that sparks months of frantic scrubbing and buffing in cities across China. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Government-backed neighborhood groups are going door-to-door in south China's gritty business capital with a set of simple requests: Please stop spitting in public, cutting in bus lines and talking loudly in the streets.

More than 200 face trial for ethnic riots in China (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:01 AM PDT

An ethnic minority Chinese resident walks past a checkpoint with heavily armed paramilitary police along a street of Urumqi, northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. More than 200 people are expected to go on trial this week for their involvement in sectarian riots last month that killed nearly 200 people in China's western region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo)AP - China will reportedly put more than 200 people on trial this week for alleged involvement in the country's worst ethnic violence in decades, an apparent move to draw a line under the episode but one that experts say is unlikely to address grievances that spawned the unrest.

China settles 50,000 Tibetan nomads in towns: state media (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 09:15 AM PDT

Tibetan nomads share a motorcycle while riding along a highway some 250 km southwest of Xining on the road to Lajiasi, in March 2009 in China's Qinghai province. China has settled nearly 50,000 Tibetan nomads into sedentary communities in a drive to protect the remote alpine region's fragile ecology from their herds, state media said Monday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China has settled nearly 50,000 Tibetan nomads into sedentary communities in a drive to protect the remote alpine region's fragile ecology from their herds, state media said Monday.

China to 'do its best' at climate talks: top official (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 08:59 AM PDT

Vehicles drive though smog on a busy ring road in Beijing on August 4, 2009. China will do its best to ensure the success of international talks on a new climate change pact in December, the nation's top negotiator on the issue said Monday, according to state media.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China will do its best to ensure the success of international talks on a new climate change pact in December, the nation's top negotiator on the issue said Monday, according to state media.

200 to face trial in China for Xinjiang unrest (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:32 AM PDT

Ethnic Uighur women (right) and Chinese riot police clash during a protest in China's far west Xinjiang region in early July. Over 200 people are set to go on trial this week for alleged involvement in deadly unrest in the Muslim-majority area of China, state media said Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China will this week put more than 200 people on trial over last month's deadly ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, with security tight due to fears of fresh violence, state media said Monday.

Wen says China faces possible new economic worries (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:12 AM PDT

AP - China's top economic official warned the country faces new problems and said Beijing will stick to its stimulus because the recovery lacks a solid foundation, according to comments reported Monday.

China to keep policy loose as economy faces new woes (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:40 AM PDT

A staff member displays Chinese yuan notes to the media at a currency exchange booth at Songshan airport in Taipei in this picture taken July 26, 2008. REUTERS/Pichi ChuangReuters - China will maintain its stimulative policy stance because the economy, far from being on solid footing, is facing fresh difficulties, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday.

China renovates former palace home of Dalai Lamas (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 20, 2009 file photo, crowds are reflected in water in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, China. China has completed a seven-year renovation of Tibet's Potala Palace, home to the Dalai Lamas until the region's current spiritual leader fled during an aborted uprising against Communist rule 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - China has completed a seven-year renovation of Tibet's Potala Palace — home to the Dalai Lamas until the region's current spiritual leader fled during an aborted uprising against Communist rule 50 years ago.

China rights lawyer may evade prosecution: attorney (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 11:52 PM PDT

Xu Zhiyong, a leading Chinese rights lawyer who helped set up a group which advocates the rule of law and who was suddenly freed from detention, may escape prosecution if he pays a fine for tax evasion allegedly committed by the group he co-founded, his attorney has said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - A leading Chinese rights lawyer suddenly freed from detention may escape prosecution if he pays a fine for tax evasion allegedly committed by the group he co-founded, his attorney said Monday.

Lead poisoning investigation begins in China (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 09:15 PM PDT

A village woman carries her child, which she claims was lead poisoned by Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in Wenping township in Hunan province, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. Two environmental officials were under investigation Saturday after more than 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant in central China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Health and environmental officials have been sent to central China to investigate who is responsible for pollution from a manganese processing plant that caused more than 1,300 children to become sickened with lead poisoning, a local government official said Monday.

Beijing deploys extra police for 60th anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 09:00 PM PDT

Police take part in an anti-terror drill in Beijing in early August. Thousands of extra police have been deployed and checkpoints opened in the city ahead of the 60th anniversary on October 1 of the founding of communist China, state media said Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - Thousands of extra police have been deployed and checkpoints opened in Beijing ahead of the 60th anniversary on October 1 of the founding of communist China, state media said Monday.

China legal activist freed, but may face tax case (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 08:22 PM PDT

AP - A prominent Chinese legal scholar whose rights group has tackled some of China's most politically sensitive cases and his office assistant have been released on bail as authorities investigate possible tax charges against the group.

China trials over Xinjiang riot "likely this week" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 06:54 PM PDT

An ethnic minority Chinese resident walks past a checkpoint with heavily armed paramilitary police along a street of Urumqi, northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. More than 200 people are expected to go on trial this week for their involvement in sectarian riots last month that killed nearly 200 people in China's western region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo)Reuters - China is likely to begin trials this week over deadly riots in the restive far-west region of Xinjiang last month, with hundreds facing murder, arson and other charges, the official China Daily said on Monday.

China's Sinopec 1st-half net profit up more than fourfold (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

A Sinopec station in Beijing. China's Sinopec said Sunday first-half net profit rose more than fourfold from a year earlier to 33.25 billion yuan (4.85 billion dollars), helped by higher refined oil prices in the domestic market.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - China's Sinopec said Sunday first-half net profit rose more than fourfold from a year earlier to 33.25 billion yuan (4.85 billion dollars), helped by higher refined oil prices in the domestic market.

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