2009年11月20日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


US envoy criticizes coverage of Obama China visit (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 01:14 PM PST

President Barack Obama stands with U.S. Ambassador to China and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman at a town hall style event with Chinese youths at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues.


Banned director brings romance film to Hong Kong (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 08:21 AM PST

Mainland China's Lou Ye poses in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The prominent Chinese director banned by Beijing on Friday brought his new gay romance to Hong Kong for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil. In 2006, Lou Ye was banned from shooting movies for five years after he screened 'Summer Palace' at the Cannes Film Festival without government approval. But the 45-year-old director defied the ban, secretly shooting the love story 'Spring Fever' with small, digital cameras in the eastern city Nanjing last year. He also entered it at Cannes earlier this year, where it won best screenplay in May.  (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.


'2012' a home run with patriotic fans in China (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 07:56 AM PST

A Chinese cleaner removes trash from a bin near a poster advertising the Hollywood blockbuster 2012 at a theater in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Chinese movie goers are flocking to the movie that appears to portray China as a savior of the world in a doomsday scenario where the earth's overheating core destabilizes the planet's crust and destroys humanity. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world.


US urges release of citizen held in China for two years (AFP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 05:43 AM PST

Chinese policemen lin Beijing.The United States called Friday for the release of Xue Feng, a China-born US citizen who has been held in the Asian nation for two years on state secrets charges.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - The United States called Friday for the release of Xue Feng, a China-born US citizen who has been held in the Asian nation for two years on state secrets charges.


U.S. seeks release of geologist in China secrets case (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 01:10 AM PST

Reuters - The United States is seeking the release of an American citizen detained in Beijing for two years, in a case similar to the detentions of Rio Tinto staff which launched an international debate over China's secrets laws.

China raises nonresidential electricity rates (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 12:26 AM PST

AP - China raised electricity rates for businesses and industries Friday, part of a long-term effort to adjust prices to reflect costs and promote energy saving as the country struggles to meet soaring demand.

China vows to punish H1N1 death cover-ups (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:19 PM PST

Reuters - China has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 swine flu after a medical expert said suspect cases may have been held back by local governments.

China activists say detained after seeking to meet Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 09:54 PM PST

President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall of China at Badaling, November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - Two Chinese rights activists who sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama hours before he left Beijing said on Friday they were briefly detained by police, and one said Washington's sway over rights in China had eroded.


China to punish those concealing swine flu info (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 09:44 PM PST

A Chinese woman receives a free H1N1 vaccination at a clinic at a clinic in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu- most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms- have failed to contain the disease. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.


AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 08:48 PM PST

In this photo released by David Rowley, taken Dec. 7, 1993 and made available Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, Feng Xue, right, poses with unidentified people for photos in Yuexi, Anhui  Province. Xue was been detained for two years by Chinese police on state secrets charges over the purchase of a commercial database on the oil industry. (AP Photo/David Rowley)AP - Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm.


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