2009年10月21日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Gang crackdown, lurid mob trials transfix China (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 02:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, suspects involved in mafia-style gangs are escorted by police to stand trial at the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court in Chongqing, China .The trials of the gangs are exposing sordid, deep-seated connections between organized crime and corrupt officials and police in the central mega-city of Chongqing. (AP Photo)AP - After she refused a corrupt cop's demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the hospital for nearly a month.

Obama, Hu vow to work for success of climate talks (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) in Pittsburgh in September 2009. Obama and Hu vowed in a phone call to work together to assure the success of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - US President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao vowed in a phone call to work together to assure the success of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said Wednesday.

US, China to meet next week for trade talks (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 08:01 AM PDT

AP - Obama administration officials said Wednesday they plan to raise a range of trade issues, from copyright piracy to China's restrictions on U.S. farm products, during two days of high-level talks next week in China.

Gore: China, US must cooperate on climate change (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 08:01 AM PDT

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks at the U.S.-China Strategic Forum on Clean Energy Cooperation welcome dinner held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that cooperation between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is crucial to tackling the climate change crisis.

China sentences six to death in mega-mafia trial (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:57 AM PDT

Gang ring leader Yang Tianqing (2ndR) and other defendants line up during sentencing, during a trial in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The court in Chongqing, one of China's largest cities, sentenced to death Yang, 35, and five other defendants for murder, assault, extortion and other charges linked to organised crime, it said on its website.(AFP)AFP - A court in southwest China sentenced six people to death Wednesday in trials that have lifted the lid on the murky underworld in Chongqing, with sordid tales of sex, gambling and corruption.

India, China agree to cooperate on climate change (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:29 AM PDT

China's chief climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, right, shakes hands with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh after signing an agreement during a joint workshop on national action plan on climate change in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.(AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)AP - India and China, both major polluters and crucial players in fighting global warming, agreed Wednesday to stand together on climate change issues at a major global conference later this year.

China's Hu, Obama discuss climate talks: report (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:24 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama (L) speaks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) in Pittsburgh in September 2009. Obama and Hu vowed in a phone call to work together to assure the success of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - US President Barack Obama spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday with the leaders voicing hope for progress at December climate change talks, China's state media reported.

China's military buildup shows need for US dialogue: admiral (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT

US Admiral Robert Willard, the new head of US Pacific Command seen here in 2004, said Beijing's AFP - Beijing's "unprecedented" arms buildup has raised concern in the region and underscored the need to promote dialogue between Chinese and US military leaders, a top US officer said on Wednesday.

China's army to recruit 130,000 college grads (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 05:14 AM PDT

Reuters - China's army will recruit 130,000 graduates from Chinese universities and colleges this winter to raise the quality of the armed forces and help solve the job crisis facing graduates.

Growing Chinese military creates uncertainty: U.S (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 04:56 AM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. military needs better dialogue with China to avoid "mistakes and miscalculations" given an unprecedented military expansion stoking uncertainty in the region, top U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.

Admiral: US, China military relations thawing (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 04:35 AM PDT

AP - Military relations between the United States and China have begun to thaw after a year of limited contact, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Pacific Command said Wednesday.

India, China leaders to meet amid war of words (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 03:12 AM PDT

Reuters - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Saturday, hoping to douse an escalating verbal duel between the Asian giants centered around their decades-old border dispute.

Dozens 'disappeared' in China's Xinjiang: group (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 01:18 AM PDT

Chinese riot police in downtown Urumqi, China's Xinjiang region in July. Dozens of members of China's Uighur minority including children remain unaccounted for more than three months after security forces rounded them up amid ethnic clashes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - Dozens of members of China's Uighur minority including children remain unaccounted for more than three months after security forces rounded them up amid ethnic clashes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

China luxury sales to rise 12 pct in 2009: study (AFP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:38 PM PDT

A bottle of the world's most expensive champagne bottled by Perrier-Jouet. Sales of luxury goods in China are forecast to rise 12 percent this year, a global consulting firm said Wednesday, bucking the downward trend seen in other major markets hit hard by the financial crisis.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)AFP - Sales of luxury goods in China are forecast to rise 12 percent this year, a global consulting firm said Wednesday, bucking the downward trend seen in other major markets hit hard by the financial crisis.

China's BAIC distances itself from arrested worker (AFP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Heavy traffic is seen passing along an elevated roadway in Shanghai. China's fifth-largest auto maker, BAIC, has sought to distance itself from an employee indicted in the US for industrial espionage.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co (BAIC) sought Wednesday to distance itself from an employee indicted in the US for industrial espionage, saying it respected intellectual property rights.

Uighur leader urges Japan to press China on rights (AFP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:22 PM PDT

Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer points out the west-Chinese province of Xinjiang on a globe at a press event in the German city of Bonn on October 16. Kadeer, alleging that China has AFP - Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, alleging that China has "destroyed" her Muslim people, is urging Japan's new government not to ignore their plight as it presses to bolster ties with Beijing.

China bond sale three times subscribed (AFP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT

China's sale of six billion yuan in government bonds in Hong Kong, the first such offer outside the mainland, was three times subscribed, the country's finance ministry has said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China's sale of six billion yuan in government bonds in Hong Kong, the first such offer outside the mainland, was three times subscribed, the finance ministry has said.

Report: Myanmar timber still smuggled to China (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:56 PM PDT

AP - There has been a sharp decline in timber illegally imported into China from Myanmar, but smugglers are still supplying Chinese companies that export the wood to Europe, America and throughout the world, an environmental watchdog agency said Wednesday.

China secretly detained 43 Uighur men, group says (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 06:59 PM PDT

AP - Three months after deadly ethnic rioting in China's far west, dozens of men from the Uighur ethnic group remain unaccounted for after being detained in police sweeps, a human rights group said Wednesday.

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