2009年11月29日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Dubai woes give China chance to buy oil, gold: report (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 06:04 PM PST

Reuters - Dubai's debt crisis could be China's opportunity to snap up gold and oil assets, a senior Chinese official said in remarks published on Monday.

China's economy reaps a golden age of weddings (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:32 PM PST

Reuters - Meng Ni and Fan Zhiqing said "I do" to each other in the same month that they said "we do" to their real estate agent.

China begins anti-dumping checks on chloroform (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:48 PM PST

Reuters - China's Ministry of Commerce has begun a year-long anti-dumping investigation into chloroform from the United States, Europe and South Korea, it said this weekend.

China tries to fix crumbling health care system (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 11:56 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, Yang Yunhua cries as she recounts the ordeal of using a homemade contraption, seen at left, to keep her daughter alive in Jizhuangcun in central China's Henan province. For more than a month, Ji was kept alive only by a contraption made from a bicycle and washing machine parts after doctors took her off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills. Chalk markings on the wall are for contacts of people who helped the family. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Unable to rely on China's broken health care system, the Ji family was desperate.


EU: Nations must do more for climate change pact (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 11:03 AM PST

AP - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is urging China and other countries to make more ambitious commitments on curbing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

EU finance chiefs say global stimulus plans must continue (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:39 AM PST

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (R) and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso pose before their meeting on the sidelines of the China-EU summit in Nanjing. European finance chiefs said Sunday the global economic recovery was not yet strong enough for governments to halt stimulus measures, after meeting with Wen.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - European finance chiefs said Sunday the global economic recovery was not yet strong enough for governments to halt stimulus measures, after meeting here with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.


Euro zone not counting on quick response to yuan call (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:10 AM PST

Reuters - The euro zone's top economic officials pressed China on Sunday to let the yuan resume its rise but said they were not counting on immediate results.

China reaffirms it wants stable, balanced yuan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 03:34 AM PST

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao (R) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso shake hands during a meeting ahead of the China-EU summit in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, November 29, 2009. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday restated China's long-standing position that the yuan's exchange rate should be kept at a reasonable, balanced level.


Euro zone officials: China yuan should strengthen (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:45 AM PST

AP - China should allow its currency to strengthen against the euro and other major currencies, for its own sake as well as that of the global economy, top finance officials of the single-currency euro zone said Sunday.

Revaluation of the yuan would be "appropriate": EU (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:47 AM PST

A woman walks past a foreign exchange bank in Seoul. The head of the European Central Bank has said that a revaluation of the yuan currency would be AFP - The head of the European Central Bank said here Sunday that a revaluation of the yuan currency would be "appropriate" after talks with China's Premier Wen Jiabao.


Chinese police capture suspect in family slaughter (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:13 AM PST

Police in southern China have captured a man suspected of hacking to death his parents, wife, sons and sister in Beijing, media have reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Police in China said Sunday they had captured a man suspected of hacking to death his parents, wife, sons and sister in Beijing.


US man wanted for ecoterror sentenced in China (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:08 PM PST

AP - An American man wanted for ecoterrorism attacks in the western United States has been sentenced to three years in a Chinese prison for making illegal drugs.

China to expand old-for-new car, appliance schemes (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 06:17 PM PST

Reuters - China will expand schemes that give consumers a discount if they trade in old cars and household appliances for new ones, according to Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei.
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