2009年11月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Feds find association between drywall, corrosion (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 03:19 PM PST

In this Oct. 14, 2009 photo, an air conditioner coil that has some corrosion at the home of James and Maria Ivory in Punta Gorda, Florida. The federal government says it finds a 'strong association' between problematic imported Chinese drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires, a conclusion that supports complaints by thousands of homeowners over the last year. (AP Photo/J. Meric)AP - The federal government said Monday that it has found a "strong association" between problematic imported Chinese drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires, a conclusion that supports complaints by thousands of homeowners over the last year.

China attacks "biased" U.S. cyber-spying report (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 12:48 PM PST

Reuters - China on Monday accused a U.S. congressional advisory panel of bias for a report in which it said the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be piercing U.S. computer networks to gather useful data for its military.

U.S. lawmakers, Chinese exiles press Obama on rights (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 12:18 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. lawmakers and exiled Chinese dissidents urged President Barack Obama on Monday to intervene with China's government on behalf of Jiang Tianyong, a rights activist who tried to see Obama while he was in China last week.

Obama must help Chinese dissident: US lawmakers (AFP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 11:50 AM PST

US President Barack Obama should AFP - US President Barack Obama should "pick up the phone" and urge Chinese President Hu Jintao personally to ease pressure on a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, US lawmakers said Monday.

Praxair to sell gases to Chinese solar cell maker (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 10:03 AM PST

AP - Praxair Inc.'s Chinese unit has signed a multiyear agreement to sell gases that MAGI Solar Energy Technology Co. will use to make solar cells and modules, Praxair announced Monday.

Official: China mine that exploded was too crowded (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 09:09 AM PST

Relatives of miners who were killed in a gas explosion cry at the entrance of Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The death toll two days later was up to 104, with four still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. The accident Saturday was the deadliest in China's mining industry for two years, and has highlighted how heavy demand for power-generating coal comes at a high human cost. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The coal mine that exploded in northern China, killing 104, had too many workers underground in an effort to increase output, a government official said Monday, exposing the risks often taken to meet the country's insatiable energy demands.

Hundreds protest trash incinerator plans in China (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 08:54 AM PST

Police hold a protestor during a protest against the planned construction of a trash incinerator outside Guangzhou's main government headquarters, southern China, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Banners read, 'Oppose the trash incinerator.' Hundreds of residents protested Monday against the planned construction of a trash incinerator in the southern boomtown city of Guangzhou. (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of residents worried about property values and health risks protested Monday against the planned construction of a trash incinerator in the southern boomtown of Guangzhou.

China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 08:40 AM PST

FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)AP - A veteran dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed during China's massive earthquake last year, killing thousands of children — an apparent government attempt to squelch such information.

China 'sentences quake activist to three years' (AFP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 05:00 AM PST

Parents hold the portraits of their dead children who were killed in the earthquake on May 12, 2008, at an elementary school in Wufu town of Mianzhu county, in Sichuan, May 2008. A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.

Taiwan concedes territorial waters near China (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 03:51 AM PST

Reuters - The Taiwan government said on Monday it was not claiming the territorial waters around two small islands that have long been part of its frontline defense against political rival China.

China slams US report warning of spying by Beijing (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 12:58 AM PST

China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (C) and his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong-chun (L) inspect North Korean soldiers upon his arrival in Pyongyang November 22, 2009, in this picture released on November 23, 2009 by North Korea's official news agency KCNA. REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA POLITICS MILITARY) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORSAP - Beijing on Monday criticized a U.S. government report that said Chinese spies are aggressively stealing American secrets, saying the report was "full of prejudice" and warning that it could damage US-China relations.

China families protest mine disaster, toll hits 104 (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:52 PM PST

Reuters - Relatives of victims of a gas blast at a northeast Chinese coal mine scuffled with police and demanded answers from the owners on Monday as state media put the toll from the latest in a series of mine disasters at 104.

China quake activist jailed for three years (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:18 PM PST

Reuters - A Chinese dissident who tried to help victims of last year's Sichuan earthquake was jailed for three years on Monday on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his wife said, decrying the sentence as "revenge."

Mosques, Chinese goods, Arabic classes rebuild Silk Road (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 09:44 PM PST

A restaurant employee (L) takes care of grilling lamb skewers beneath the glow of swirling neon signs in Yiwu. Yiwu, a city of two million people 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of Shanghai, has become a crossroads on what has been dubbed a AFP - Smoke from hookah pipes and the aroma of lamb skewers on the grill mix in the chilly autumn air as men talk loudly in Arabic over pulsating music beneath the neon glow of restaurant signs.

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