2009年12月6日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


No winners if yuan rises, says China think-tank (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 04:56 PM PST

An employee counts Renminbi banknotes at a Bank of China branch in Hefei, Anhui province November 17, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Lifting the value of China's yuan currency would hurt, not help, global economic recovery and threaten the country's own financial and trade health, a Chinese state think-tank said in an essay published on Monday.


Chinese wind power companies target global markets (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 09:20 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2009 file photo, a farmer and his donkeys labor near a wind farm in Shangyi, Hebei, China. Goldwind and other Chinese wind energy companies have grown rapidly as Beijing pushes its companies to use more renewable energy. Now the biggest are poised to jump into foreign markets in the United States, Britain, Japan and elsewhere to profit from global efforts to curb climate change. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - China's Goldwind Science & Technology Ltd. is one of the world's biggest makers of wind turbines — a cornerstone of the booming clean power business — but is unknown outside its home country.


Beijing approves Yanzhou takeover of Australia miner (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 02:44 AM PST

Wu Yuxiang, director and chief financial officer of Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited, addresses a press conference in Hong Kong in 2007. Chinese regulators have approved Yanzhou Coal's 3.5 billion Australian dollar (3.2 billion US) takeover of miner Felix, the country's biggest Australian acquisition yet, the Chinese company said.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Chinese regulators have approved Yanzhou Coal's 3.5 billion Australian dollar (3.2 billion US) takeover of miner Felix, the country's biggest Australian acquisition yet, the Chinese company said.


China approves Yanzhou bid for Felix Resources (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 01:04 AM PST

AP - Chinese regulators have approved a bid by state-owned Yanzhou Coal to take over Australian miner Felix Resources Ltd., the company said in a statement.

China pays web surfers to find porn: report (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:22 PM PST

A man uses a laptop computer at a wireless cafe in Beijing. Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese authorities have offered rewards of up to 10,000 yuan (1,465 dollars) to Internet users who report websites that feature pornography, state media reported Sunday.


Gunpowder truck explodes in China, four dead (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:07 PM PST

A truck carrying gunpowder to a fireworks factory exploded in central China, killing four people, destroying three vehicles and tearing up chunks of the highway, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/HO/File/Doug Kanter)AFP - A truck carrying gunpowder to a fireworks factory exploded in central China, killing four people, destroying three vehicles and tearing up chunks of the highway, state media reported Sunday.


Uighurs flee China, seek asylum in Cambodia: exile group (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 06:57 PM PST

Reuters - A group of Uighurs who have fled China are seeking asylum through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an overseas activist group said, adding that other would-be refugees had been captured while fleeing China after ethnic riots in their homeland in July.
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