2009年10月5日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


North Korea considers return to nuclear talks (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:10 PM PDT

This photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on October 4 shows Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao (C) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) at Pyongyang airport. North Korea is willing to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks if separate talks planned with the United States make progress, the communist state's official media said.(AFP/KCNA/KNS/File)AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told China's premier on Monday that the North was prepared to return to multination disarmament talks depending on progress in its two-way negotiations with the U.S.


China vows to stand by isolated North Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:22 PM PDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (L) shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il during their meeting in Pyongyang October 5, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA on October 6, 2009.  REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA POLITICS) NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. QUALITY FROM SOURCEReuters - China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea on Monday, calling their relationship a boon to peace, while reports of swoops on North Korean ships underscored strains behind a recent easing of tension.


Traditions fade as China settles nomads in towns (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 27, 2009, Gu Gejun feeds his deer at a forest park in Genhe, Inner Mongolia, China. Resettlement by China's government has brought members of the small Ewenki ethnic group from the steppe to the city, housing them in a newly built estate but inevitably changing their traditions. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Herding reindeer and hunting bears and boars in the forests on Siberia's fringe was Gu Gejun's life. Now his rifle has been confiscated, and the only reindeer he herds are in an urban tourist park.


China's judiciary embroiled in graft scandals (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:44 PM PDT

File photo of Chinese police prepare deployed to set up checkpoints to monitor people and vehicles entering and leaving Beijing. Top court officials in Beijing as well as Guangdong, Hubei and Liaoning provinces have recently been convicted for taking money from attorneys in exchange for favourable rulings.(AFP/AFP/File)AFP - "To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest.


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