2009年10月28日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China Security & Surveillance shares drop (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:13 PM PDT

AP - Shares of China Security & Surveillance Technology Inc. tumbled Wednesday as the company's third-quarter profit and sales missed Wall Street forecasts by a wide margin.

Sinopec, Kuwait agree on $9-billion oil refinery (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:04 AM PDT

An employee of the Kuwait Oil Company looks at the al-Rawdatain field, 100 kms north of Kuwait City, in 2005. China's Sinopec has signed a preliminary pact with Kuwait to build a $9 billion refinery in southern China, the firm has said, after it was forced to move the plant due to environmental concerns.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - China's Sinopec signed a preliminary pact with Kuwait to build a nine-billion-dollar refinery in southern China, the firm said on Wednesday, after it was forced to move the plant due to environmental concerns.


At least 10 killed as China bus falls off hillside (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:48 AM PDT

AP - At least 10 people died Wednesday when a bus carrying mourners from a funeral plunged off a hillside in eastern China, state media reported.

Envoy: No China-US climate pact from Obama visit (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, factory chimneys pour out smoke in Shanghai, China. President Barack Obama's visit to China next month is not likely to yield a separate accord on countering global warming, though both countries are pushing for progress for upcoming global talks in Copenhagen, the top U.S. envoy on climate change said Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - President Barack Obama's visit to China next month is not likely to yield a separate accord on countering global warming, though both countries are pushing for progress for upcoming global talks in Copenhagen, the top U.S. envoy on climate change said Wednesday.


US, China open high-level trade talks (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:05 AM PDT

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk (L) and Zhejiang Provincial Governor Lu Zushan exchange gifts during a meeting in Hangzhou, China. Ministers from the United States and China opened key trade talks Wednesday, with Washington looking to make progress on several disputes ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.(AFP/POOL/Eugene Hoshiko)AFP - Ministers from the United States and China opened key trade talks Wednesday, with Washington looking to make progress on several disputes ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.


China's Hu lauds North Korea, sidesteps nuclear dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:16 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visits a salmon research institute at an undisclosed place in North Korea in this undated recent picture released by North Korea's official KCNA news agency October 20, 2009. KCNA did not state expressly the date when the picture was taken. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao told a senior North Korean official on Wednesday that ties between the two nations have reached a new level of goodwill, avoiding direct mention of the North's nuclear dispute in his public praise.


China struggles to identify rescued kidnap victims (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 04:23 AM PDT

AP - Police in China have created a Web site with photos of 60 rescued kidnap victims, mostly boys and many of them infants, in a bid to track down their families.

China, US's Harsco sign construction joint venture (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:27 AM PDT

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke delivers a speech during a breakfast meeting Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009 in Hangzhou, China. Locke and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will  participate 20th China and US joint commission on commerce and trade. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Top U.S. trade officials visiting China for high level talks on nuts-and-bolts economic issues oversaw the signing Wednesday of a joint venture between major Chinese and U.S. construction companies — a deal meant to create jobs on both sides.


China poisoning Pearl River Delta: Greenpeace (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:40 AM PDT

A young man sifts through thick sludge from the bottom of the heavily-polluted Pearl River seeking anything of value in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Factories in southern China are poisoning the waterway, an area where almost one-third of the country's exports are made, Greenpeace said in a report Wednesday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Factories in southern China are poisoning the Pearl River Delta, an area where almost one-third of the country's exports are made, Greenpeace said in a report Wednesday.


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