2010年1月20日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China teen seen as hero for killing local official (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST

In this photo taken on Aug. 7, 2007, released by Zhang Xuping's family, 19-year-old Zhang Xuping pose for photos outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Zhang became something of a local hero for killing Li Shiming, the hated party secretary of Xiashuixi village, in September 2008. Zhang was sentenced to death last Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, for murder, and an appeal was filed this week, his mother and lawyer said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Zhang Xuping's family)AP - When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.

U.S. law inhibits China currency probe: Gary Locke (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:17 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. law makes it difficult for the United States to investigate charges China's currency practices constitute an unfair trade subsidy, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told senators in a letter.

China to curb lending binge, regulator says (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 09:33 AM PST

AP - China will slow its massive lending spree and step up monitoring of banks as it tries to prevent speculative bubbles in real estate and other assets while keeping the country's economic recovery on track, a top regulator said Wednesday.

China plans fifth panda breeding centre (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 09:27 AM PST

A panda cub plays at the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu on in 2009. China plans to open a fifth breeding centre for giant pandas in an effort to boost the population of the notoriously sex-shy species, state media reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China plans to open a fifth breeding centre for giant pandas in an effort to boost the population of the notoriously sex-shy species, state media reported on Wednesday.

China punishes some banks lending too much: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:52 AM PST

Reuters - China punished some banks, including Bank of China (3988.HK), for lending too much, after a surge in new loans this year increased inflationary pressures, sources said on Wednesday citing central bank figures.

Google attack puts spotlight on China's "red" hackers (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:45 AM PST

The company logo of web titan Google at the firm's headquarters in Beijing. Google acquiesced to China's censors to enter the country in 2006, but has snared only about 35 percent of the search-engine market, according to independent data. Baidu has about 58 percent.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)Reuters - They are cloaked by pseudonyms and multiple addresses, but China's legions of hackers were thrust into the spotlight last week after Google said it suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack emanating from China.

China tries to curb lending and avoid overheating (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:45 AM PST

A man walks out of a China CITIC Bank branch in Shanghai in this April 26, 2007 file photo. Chinese banking authorities have instructed some major banks to curb their lending over the rest of this month, official media and banking sources said on Wednesday, sending shares sharply lower. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - Chinese authorities ordered some big banks to curb lending for the rest of January, intensifying their efforts to prevent the world's third-largest economy from overheating.

China's Baidu sues US web firm over hacker attack (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:02 AM PST

A woman walks past the Baidu office in Beijing. China's top Internet search engine Baidu has said it has sued a US web firm after its site was hacked, a new salvo in a growing spat after Google's threat to quit the country because of cyberattacks.(AFP/Str)AFP - China's top Internet search engine Baidu said Wednesday it had sued a US web firm after its site was hacked, a new salvo in a growing spat after Google's threat to quit the country because of cyber attacks.

9 year sentence for ex-China democracy leader (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 02:23 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2009 file photo, Zhang Yuewei, girlfriend of Chinese dissident Zhou Yongjun, displays a picture of Zhou after a press conference in Hong Kong. Zhou Yongjun, a former Chinese democracy movement leader controversially handed over to Beijing from Hong Kong, has been sentenced to nine years in prison in China on fraud charges, a rights monitoring group said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)AP - A former Chinese democracy movement leader who was handed over to mainland China from Hong Kong — some say illegally — has been sentenced to nine years in prison on the charge of attempted fraud, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Drop in China mine deaths, accidents for 2009 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:23 AM PST

AP - The number of deaths in China's mining industry, the world's deadliest, fell 20 percent last year as more dangerous smaller mines were closed, a safety official said.

China says coal mine deaths fall in 2009 (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 12:13 AM PST

Chinese miners prepare to start work at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi. The number of workers who died in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines dropped in 2009 because of improved safety measures, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File)AFP - The number of workers who died in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines dropped in 2009 because of improved safety measures, state media said Wednesday.

U.S. has met with China on Internet freedom (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:46 PM PST

Reuters - The United States has had multiple meetings with Chinese authorities over Internet freedom and will have more in the coming days, a top State Department official said on Tuesday amid continuing tensions between Google and Beijing.

What Internet? China region cut off 6 months now (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:23 PM PST

In this photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, people surf Internet inside an Internet cafe in Dunhuang, in northwest China's Gansu province. For six months now, the 20 million people in China's far western region of Xinjiang have been without the Internet. Every weekend, a few dozen determined commuters pile off the train in Liuyuan, a lonely, sandswept stretch along the ancient Silk Road that's also the first train station outside Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)AP - They arrive at this gritty desert crossroads weary from a 13-hour train ride but determined. The promised land lies just across the railway station plaza: a large, white sign that says "Easy Connection Internet Cafe."

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