2010年3月2日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Government sets duties on China, Indonesia coated paper (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 02:36 PM PST

Reuters - The United States on Tuesday imposed preliminary duties on two goods from China, glossy magazine-quality paper and certain salts used to make fertilizer, adding to a growing list of bilateral trade disputes.

China, US seek to put tensions behind them (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 08:38 AM PST

A Chinese security personnel on duty is seen near reflections of Tiananmen Square on the glass door of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, March 2, 2010. China's top leadership will gather in the Chinese capital this week for its annual CPPCC and National People's Congress (NPC) meetings. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - U.S. envoys hope to ease a two-month spike in tensions with China, but differences over the issue of new sanctions against Iran have emerged as a snag even before this week's talks in Beijing can begin.


Rescuers try to save 31 trapped in China coal mine (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 06:13 AM PST

Reuters - Rescuers are desperately pumping water from a coal mine in northern China, after one miner died and 31 were trapped by a flood at a state-owned mine.

Rare tiger cub found in China dies of malnutrition (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:53 AM PST

AP - A rare Siberian tiger discovered near the Russian border seemed an auspicious beginning to China's Year of the Tiger, but within days, the emaciated cub had died of malnutrition.

US envoy visits China on fence-mending mission (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 05:50 AM PST

US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, seen here in 2009, arrived in China Tuesday for talks aimed at putting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.(AFP/POOL/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - A senior US diplomat arrived in China Tuesday for talks aimed at putting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.


Rare outspoken reform call from China state media (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 03:50 AM PST

AP - More than a dozen Chinese newspapers took a rare stand this week against a Mao Zedong-era system blamed for the wide gap between the country's rich and poor. Within hours, their jointly signed editorial had largely disappeared online.

Shanghai declares indoor smoking ban ahead of Expo (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 02:49 AM PST

Pedestrian smoke on a street Tuesday, March 2, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Restaurants and office buildings in China's commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo. There is rising awareness of the health risks of smoking in China, by far the world's biggest tobacco-consuming country, and this modern city of 20 million is cleaning up its act as it prepares to host the Expo, which begins May 1. (AP Photo)AP - Restaurants and office buildings in China's commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo.


China's BYD and Daimler sign key deal on electric vehicle (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 02:29 AM PST

The Mercedes-Benz logo stands on the roof of the carmakers plant in the southern German city of Sindelfingen, 2009. Chinese auto maker BYD (Build Your Dreams) and German giant Daimler have signed a preliminary agreement to mass produce an electric car together, executives said at the Geneva motor show.(DDP/AFP/File/Sascha Schuermann)AFP - Chinese auto maker BYD (Build Your Dreams) and German giant Daimler have signed a preliminary agreement to build an electric car together, company executives said at the Geneva motor show on Tuesday.


China sticks to diplomatic approach on Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PST

Exiled spiritual Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, is seen in Melbourne. A senior US diplomat is due in China for talks aimed at getting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.(AFP/File/William West)Reuters - China stood its ground that diplomacy was the best way to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. diplomats arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks on Tehran and North Korea's atomic ambitions.


China writer blocked from going to German festival (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:27 AM PST

FILE - In this June 6, 2008 file photo, Chinese poet and novelist Liao Yiwu revisits the earthquake damaged Gu Temple in Jiezi town of Sichuan Province. The outspoken Chinese writer and government critic said Tuesday, March 2, 2010, he was blocked from leaving the country to participate in Europe's largest international literary festival. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - An outspoken Chinese writer and government critic says he has been blocked from leaving China for a 13th time, this time taken off a plane as he was setting off for Europe's largest international literary festival.


'Great moat' around Beijing for parliament (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 12:27 AM PST

File photo shows a police officer standing guard in Beijing's imposing Tiananmen Square. More than 700,000 people will work to keep public order during China's upcoming 10-day parliamentary session, with police building a AFP - More than 700,000 people will work to keep public order during China's upcoming 10-day parliamentary session, as police build a "great moat" of security around Beijing, state media said Tuesday.


China official wanted toxic bean case hushed up (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 11:52 PM PST

AP - The discovery in Chinese markets of tons of beans treated with a highly toxic pesticide has prompted an indignant response from an official responsible for the safety of the produce, despite a public outcry over recent food safety scandals.

China wealth gap widened in 2009: state media (AFP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 11:34 PM PST

A Chinese woman begs with her child on the streets of Shanghai. Urban per capita income stood at 17,175 yuan (2,500 dollars) in 2009, compared to 5,153 yuan in the countryside, a ratio of 3.33 to 1, according to national statistical data.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China's rural-urban wealth gap was the widest last year since the nation launched its economic transformation three decades ago, state media said Tuesday, amid concerns the disparity could spark unrest.


Chinese man says he killed roommate over snoring (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 08:11 PM PST

AP - A Chinese college student fed up with his roommate's snoring, has confessed to stabbing him to death in the middle of the night.

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