2009年9月28日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Battery maker tops annual China 'rich list' (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 11:59 AM PDT

Wang Chuanfu, the founder of Chinese battery and electric car maker BYD, is pictured at the Detroit auto show in Michigan in January 2009. Wang has become China's richest person thanks to US billionaire investor Warren Buffett, according to a list published Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bill Pugliano)AFP - Wang Chuanfu, the founder of Chinese battery and electric car maker BYD, has become China's richest person thanks to US billionaire investor Warren Buffett, according to a list published Monday.


Chinese hotel project in Cuba eyes U.S. market (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 10:54 AM PDT

Reuters - The Hemingway Hotel may have an American ring to it, but it is the name of a Chinese-Cuban venture scheduled for groundbreaking this year with an apparent eye on the U.S. market, tourism industry sources said.

Bombardier venture awarded Chinese contract (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 10:06 AM PDT

AP - Train maker Bombardier Inc. said Monday its Chinese joint venture has been awarded a $4 billion contract to build 80 high-speed trains for China's railway ministry.

Lawyers: Chinese drywall makers may ignore suits (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 08:07 AM PDT

AP - Lawyers for homeowners and homebuilders who used drywall suspected of causing corrosion and possible health risks say they expect Chinese manufacturers to ignore hundreds of lawsuits filed against them.

China, Japan, S.Korea agree deeper cooperation (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 07:33 AM PDT

South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan (left) and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (centre) reach out to shake hands with their Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi during their meeting in Shanghai. The ministers pledged to deepen cooperation on non-proliferation and disarmament, as pressure grew on Pyongyang over its nuclear programme.(AFP/Pool/Aly Song)AFP - Foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea on Monday pledged to deepen cooperation on non-proliferation and disarmament, as pressure grew on Pyongyang over its nuclear programme.


NKorean media says Chinese premier to visit NKorea (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:10 AM PDT

AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will travel to North Korea next week, Beijing's Foreign Ministry and Pyongyang's state media said Monday, amid a flurry of international efforts to convince the reclusive regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.

Richest village in China a capitalist commune (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:37 AM PDT

AP - Public loudspeakers in the central square blare the village anthem hourly: "If you want to see a miracle, come to Huaxi." Not that any reminders are needed.

China finds bird-like dinosaur with four wings (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:38 AM PDT

In this undated image provided Friday Sept. 25, 2009, by Bristol University, England, showing a reconstruction image extrapolated from a feathered dinosaur fossil, called Anchiornis huxleyi, discovered in north-eastern China.  Experts at Bristol University think the fossil provides hard evidence that some prehistoric creatures evolved into birds. The new dinosaur fossils, represent five different species from two different rock sequences in north-eastern China, all having feathers or feather-like structures from a prehistoric period older than previous fossil feathered animals. (AP Photo / Hu Dongyu, Bristol University England)Reuters - Chinese researchers have unearthed the fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings in northeastern China, which they suggest is a missing link in dinosaurs' evolution into birds.


EU Commission to keep duty on Chinese shoes: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:26 AM PDT

Childrens' shoes are made at a Hong Kong-invested shoe factory for the market in Dongguan at the Pearl River Delta in China's southern province of Guangdong June 10, 2009. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - The European Commission is set to propose next month extending anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese-made shoes, dividing EU member states and reigniting fears of tit-for-tat trade disputes around the world.


China sells first yuan bonds in Hong Kong: govt (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 12:52 AM PDT

File photo shows Chinese 100 Yuan notes being counted at a bank in Shanghai. China has been pushing aggressively for the wider use of the yuan abroad, signing a series of bilateral currency swap agreements in the past few months.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China on Monday launched the sale of six billion yuan (879 million dollars) in government bonds in Hong Kong, the finance ministry said, marking the first such offer outside the mainland.


Chinese PM to visit North Korea amid nuclear standoff (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 09:26 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during a news conference at the EU-China Summit in front of a statue of the first Czechoslovak President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk at Prague Castle, May 20, 2009. REUTERS/Petr JosekReuters - China's prime minister will visit North Korea early next week for a trip that could help revive talks stalled for nearly a year on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.


60 years on, China faces major social struggles (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 07:39 PM PDT

Residents rehearse for National Day celebrations in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province on September 26. China will tout the successes of 60 years of communist rule on Thursday, but the world's most populous nation faces an array of serious challenges as it seeks to sustain fast-paced economic growth.(AFP/File)AFP - China will tout the successes of 60 years of communist rule on Thursday, but the world's most populous nation faces an array of serious challenges as it seeks to sustain fast-paced economic growth.


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