2009年12月26日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China adopts law to boost renewable energy industry (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:59 AM PST

Smoke belching from a coal powered power plant on the outskirts of Linfen, in China's Shanxi province. China's national assembly has signalled the country's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a law supporting its renewable energy industry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's national assembly Saturday signalled the country's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a law supporting its renewable energy industry.


France berates China over sentencing of dissident (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 05:48 AM PST

Reuters - France chastised China on Saturday for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijing of its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union.

China Mobile vice-chairman 'under investigation' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 05:23 AM PST

Then China Netcom Group Corporation Limited's chairman and executive director, Zhang Chunjiang, pictured in Hong Kong in 2007. Zhang, now vice-chairman and executive director of telecoms giant China Mobile, is under investigation for breaching party discipline, state media reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)AFP - The vice-chairman and executive director of telecoms giant China Mobile, Zhang Chunjiang, is under investigation for breaching party discipline, state media reported Saturday.


China unveils 'world's fastest train link' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:54 AM PST

Chinese workers put the final touch on the interior of a new railway station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. China has unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.(AFP/Str)AFP - China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.


China bloggers fined for defamation: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 12:32 AM PST

A man surfs the web at a Beijing cafe in early December. Two Chinese bloggers have been ordered to pay about 290,000 yuan (42,478 dollars) in compensation to the widow of film director Xie Jin for claiming he died in the arms of a prostitute, a report has said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Two Chinese bloggers were ordered to pay about 290,000 yuan (42,478 dollars) in compensation to the widow of film director Xie Jin for claiming he died in the arms of a prostitute, a report said Saturday.


Vietnam sentences 5 Chinese to death in drug case (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 08:43 PM PST

AP - A Vietnamese court sentenced five Chinese men to death by firing squad for trafficking nearly 8 tons of hashish in one of the country's biggest drug hauls ever, state media reported Saturday.
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