2009年9月24日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Geithner: US wants bigger role for China in IMF (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:32 PM PDT

AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. supports China's bid for greater voting rights in international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank for itself and other fast-growing economies despite European reservations.

China: Sanctions not the way push Iran on nukes (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 12:16 PM PDT

AP - China rejected the idea Thursday that more sanctions would pressure Iran to give up its nuclear program.

China launches climate project with Britain, Switzerland: govt (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:13 AM PDT

Hu Jintao, President of China, waves after speaking during the United Nations Climate Change Summit September 22 at the United Nations in New York. China has launched with Britain and Switzerland a project aimed at finding ways for the Asian giant to tackle climate change and mitigate its effects, officials said Thursday.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)AFP - China has launched with Britain and Switzerland a project aimed at finding ways for the Asian giant to tackle climate change and mitigate its effects, officials said Thursday.


China to host top-level summit with Japan and SKorea (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:12 AM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is pictured in August 2009. The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will meet in Beijing on October 10, the foreign ministry said here Thursday, for a summit likely to include discussions on North Korea's nuclear programme.(AFP/POOL/File/Oliver Weiken)AFP - The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will meet in Beijing on October 10, the foreign ministry said here Thursday, for a summit likely to include discussions on North Korea's nuclear programme.


Official denies Tibet ban for foreign visitors (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:58 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese official on Thursday denied reports that Tibet will be closed to foreign visitors over the sensitive Oct. 1 national day period.

China faces new US trade complaint over paper (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 03:39 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. labor union and three paper companies have filed a new trade complaint over imports of Chinese paper, possibly fueling tensions between Washington and Beijing amid disputes over tires and other goods.

China army promotes Mao Zedong grandson to general (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 01:39 AM PDT

AP - Mao Zedong's only grandson has become the youngest general in the People's Liberation Army at age 39, a Chinese newspaper said Thursday.

Australia defends military block to China investment (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:16 PM PDT

File photo shows a weapons test being conducted near the desert town of Woomera. Australia's defence minister on Thursday stood by national security objections to a Chinese steelmaker gaining access to a mining project on a sensitive rocket-testing site in the Woomera Prohibited Area.(AFP/ADD/File/Darryl Johnston)AFP - Australia's defence minister on Thursday stood by national security objections to a Chinese steelmaker gaining access to a mining project on a sensitive rocket-testing site.


China start-up IPOs set high prices, stir worries (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 10:54 PM PDT

An investor walks past an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Nanjing, Jiangsu province September 3, 2009. REUTERS/Sean YongReuters - The first 10 firms due to list on China's Nasdaq-style second board, ChiNext, plan to sell shares at prices 50 percent above their mainboard peers, just as worries over speculation spurred officials to tighten trading rules.


China gets serious about carbon emissions, global warming (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The pledge that Chinese President Hu Jintao made at Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York – to put the brakes on China's carbon dioxide emissions – may have been short on specifics.
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