2009年12月9日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China to maintain stimulus measures in 2010: state media (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 11:01 AM PST

Workers put up Christmas decorations in front of a commercial retail and office building in Beijing on December 5. China will next year maintain policies put in place to tackle the global economic crisis, in a continued bid to boost domestic consumption and stimulate growth, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China will next year maintain policies put in place to tackle the global economic crisis, in a continued bid to boost domestic consumption and stimulate growth, state media said Wednesday.


China moves to indict top dissident for subversion (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 10:26 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reforms, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. The wife of the outspoken Chinese dissident who has been jailed for a year without being formally charged said Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, that she wishes if it won't release him the government would put him on trial so she could visit him regularly. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)AP - Liu Xiaobo lobbied to abolish a vaguely worded Chinese law against subversion, but now it appears the high-profile dissident will stand trial for that very crime.


Canada's Husky Energy discovers deepwater gas reserve (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 06:33 AM PST

The Husky Oil building seen in central Calgary, Canada, seen here in 2007. Husky Energy Inc. announced Wednesday it had discovered a significant deepwater gas reserve with its Chinese partner CNOOC, renewing exploration hopes in the South China Sea.(AFP/File/David Boily)AFP - Canada's Husky Energy Inc announced Wednesday it had discovered a significant deepwater gas reserve with its Chinese partner CNOOC, renewing exploration hopes in the South China Sea.


China closes file-sharing sites in crackdown (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 04:13 AM PST

AP - China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling what content the country's Web users can find online.

China remains top investment spot for U.S. firms: study (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:06 AM PST

Reuters - China remains a top investment destination for U.S. companies in 2010 amid the global economic slowdown as they expect to see continuous growth in sales and profit, an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) study showed.

China says it detains 94 who fled July rioting (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:51 PM PST

Ethnic Uygur women (R) clash with Chinese riot police as they protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province in July. Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - China said Wednesday that police had detained 94 people who fled the western region of Xinjiang after deadly rioting there in July — the country's worst communal violence in decades.


Top China dissident faces subversion charge: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:46 PM PST

A protestor holding a picture of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo marches to the US consulate in Hong Kong on November 13. Chinese police have recommended prosecutors formally charge top dissident Liu Xiaobo with inciting subversion, his lawyer told AFP on Wednesday, as Liu marked a year in detention without an indictment.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Chinese police have recommended prosecutors formally charge top dissident Liu Xiaobo with inciting subversion, his lawyer told AFP on Wednesday, as Liu marked a year in detention without an indictment.


China to resettle at least 440,000 for water project (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:37 PM PST

File photo shows cracks in the foundation of a canal wall that is part of China's hugely ambitious but troubled South-North Water Diversion Project in Yixian in June in northern Hebei province. China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday.


China arrests 94 Xinjiang unrest fugitives (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 09:37 PM PST

Chinese troops train in Urumqi, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang in September. Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday.


Peru army plans arms purchase, tests Chinese tanks (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 08:50 PM PST

In this photo released by Andina Agency, soldiers wait on their tanks before a military parade in Lima, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Peru's Defense Minister Rafael Rey said Peru's military is close to a deal to buy tanks from China. (AP Photo/Piero Vargas, Andina Agency)AP - Peru's military is close to a deal to buy tanks from China, the defense minister said Tuesday.


First lawsuit in China milk scandal delayed (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 07:54 PM PST

File photo shows the head office building of Sanlu Group in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province in 2008. China's first civil lawsuit seeking compensation over last year's tainted milk scandal has been delayed for further investigation, state-run media reported Wednesday.(AFP/File/Robert Saiget)AFP - China's first civil lawsuit seeking compensation over last year's tainted milk scandal has been delayed for further investigation, state-run media reported Wednesday.


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