2009年12月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China school stampede kills 8 in crowded stairway (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 09:26 AM PST

A plain clothes policeman walks the stairway of the stampede site at Yucai Middle School in Xiangxiang, in south China's Hunan province, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Eight youths were killed and 26 injured when students descending the crowded staircase after evening classes at the school in central China lost their footing amid a crush of bodies, state media and the local government reported Tuesday. (AP Photo)AP - It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow stairway closest to their dormitory. Somehow, someone stumbled — and the ensuing crush of bodies left eight children dead.


China rises and reshapes the world with Olympics (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:13 AM PST

FILE - This Aug. 18, 2009 file photo shows a woman rinsing rice in a pot as others sort garbage at a trash recycling center in Beijing, China.  For China, this decade was a time when the massive nation began to reshape the world in both basic and big ways. After spending much of the '80s and '90s with their heads down, retooling their shattered economy, the Chinese started peering beyond the horizon and striding out far beyond their borders. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - China's bold rise this decade took many forms. The Beijing Olympics. The billions of dollars lent to the U.S. The rip-roaring economic growth.


China auto sales, production surpass 1 mln in Nov (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:49 AM PST

A woman walks on a pedestrian bridge over vehicles getting stuck at a traffic jam in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. China's auto production and sales more than doubled over a year earlier in November, with both surpassing 1 million vehicles, extending the country's lead over the U.S. as the world's biggest auto market. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China extended its lead over the U.S. as the world's biggest auto market in November, with production and sales more than doubling from a year earlier to both surpass 1 million vehicles.


China Mobile, RIM to offer BlackBerry to China consumer (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:44 AM PST

Reuters - China Mobile (0941.HK) and Research in Motion will offer BlackBerry handsets and Internet service to consumers as well as smaller firms in China, the two firms said on Tuesday.

China executes rogue trader, millions still missing (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:29 AM PST

Reuters - China on Tuesday executed a former securities trader for embezzlement, the first person in the industry to be put to death, but millions of yuan are still missing, a state newspaper said.

Eight dead in China school stampede (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:13 AM PST

Eight students were killed and 26 others injured in a stampede down a narrow stairway at a middle school in central China, state media reported.(AFP/Str)AFP - Eight students were killed and 26 others injured in a stampede down a narrow stairway at a middle school in central China, state media reported on Tuesday.


Geely resumes trading after OKing strong sales (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:28 AM PST

Customers inspect a Geely automobile in Beijing. The Hong Kong-listed arm of Chinese auto group Geely resumed its trading Tuesday afternoon, after it confirmed strong car sales figures announced a day earlier.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The Hong Kong-listed arm of Chinese auto group Geely resumed its trading Tuesday afternoon, after it confirmed strong car sales figures announced a day earlier.


China school stampede kills eight, injures 26 (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 07:29 PM PST

Reuters - Eight children died and 26 were injured in a stampede in a school stairwell in central China, local media reported on Tuesday.

Tibetans jailed for Dalai Lama web images: group (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 05:39 PM PST

The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, seen at an event in Sydney in late November. Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the Dalai Lama on the Internet, a Paris-based media watchdog has said.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the exiled Dalai Lama on the Internet, a Paris-based media watchdog said Monday.


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