2010年5月13日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China


U.S., China resume human rights talks (Reuters)

Posted: 13 May 2010 03:28 PM PDT

A man scuffles with a police officer outside the hotel of the Dalai Lama, in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, September 1, 2009 as he protests against the visit of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to Taiwan. The placard reads, Reuters - The United States and China resumed a formal dialogue on human rights on Thursday after a two-year hiatus in which the countries have worked to keep ties stable amid disputes over Tibet, Taiwan, Internet freedom and the value of the yuan currency.


Pest munches up China fields after GM crop sprays halt (Reuters)

Posted: 13 May 2010 02:34 PM PDT

An undated handout photo of an adult mirid bug. A previously insignificant pest has been rampaging through China's fruit orchards and cotton fields since the country began cultivating a genetically modified cotton that is resistant to bollworms, experts said. REUTERS/Science/AAAS HandoutReuters - A once minor pest has ravaged fruit orchards and cotton fields in China after farmers stopped spraying insecticide in crops of a genetically-modified type of cotton resistant to bollworms, experts said.


US, China begin human rights talks (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 02:23 PM PDT

A Chinese man walks past a huge poster showing multi racial children play together with the words 'Build a new area hand in hand' in Beijing Wednesday, May 12, 2010. This week's resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics say is a deterioration in Beijing's record on legal protections, free speech and civil society. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The Obama administration faces a delicate balancing act in human rights talks with China that began Thursday: It looks to pressure China to improve its treatment of its citizens while not angering a country that is crucial to U.S. international interests.


Cut the political jargon, urges China's vice president (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 10:47 AM PDT

China's vice president Xi Jinping, seen here on March 29, said that the AFP - The "three represents" could some day be lumped in with "the four olds" if China's jargon-obsessed Communist Party heeds a call from the top for clearer communication.


China police chief vows to strike at school attackers (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 09:52 AM PDT

A policeman stands across the road from an elementary school in Beijing on May 12. China's top policeman has vowed to AFP - China's top policeman has vowed to "severely strike" at anyone caught attacking schools, in an angry diatribe following a kindergarten bloodbath -- the fifth such assault in just a few weeks.


Neighbors thought China attacker was a good man (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 09:37 AM PDT

An injured child holds a paper made bird while being transferred from intensive care unit to a room for further treatment at a hospital in Hanzhong, north China's Shaanxi Province Thursday, May 13, 2010. A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults, the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Neighbors in this lush but poor farm village say Wu Jianming seemed like a good, quiet man. They struggle now to understand how he could fly into a rage over unpaid rent, slashing and killing seven preschoolers and two adults with a cleaver.


Ford, Mazda aim to break up 3-way China JV: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 13 May 2010 04:54 AM PDT

New cars are seen at a parking lot of Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co. Ltd, in Chongqing Municipality, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Ford Motor and its China venture partners, Mazda Motor Corp and Chongqing Changan Automobile Co, are seeking Chinese government approval to end their three-way tie up, two sources said on Thursday.


China Valves net income up 123 pct in 1st quarter (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 04:49 AM PDT

AP - China Valves Technology Inc. said profit more than doubled in the first quarter as it sold more of its large metal valves to power plants.

China Mobile expresses interest in iPad (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 03:59 AM PDT

A man browses the Internet on his newly purchased iPad on April 3 in Fort Worth, Texas. China Mobile, the world's biggest cell phone operator, said it was interested in selling the iPad, and that talks with Apple over the sale of iPhones were still ongoing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tom Pennington)AFP - China Mobile, the world's biggest cell phone operator, said Thursday it was interested in selling the iPad, and that talks with Apple over the sale of iPhones were still ongoing.


Chinese wrongly jailed for 11 years given $96,000 (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 12:17 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who wasn't even dead has been given $96,000 in government compensation, state media reported Thursday.

Chinese police arrested in 'back from dead' case (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 10:52 PM PDT

File photo of a Chinese policeman on patrol in Henan province in central China. Chinese authorities have arrested two policemen suspected of torturing a confession out of a man wrongly convicted of murder 11 years ago, state press reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese authorities have arrested two policemen suspected of torturing a confession out of a man wrongly convicted of murder 11 years ago, state press reported Thursday.


China vice president calls for reducing jargon use (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 10:38 PM PDT

AP - China's ruling Communist Party is being told to cut back on the use of political jargon in the name of clearer communication.

China school killer erupted after lease row (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2010 09:20 PM PDT

A policeman walks outside Shengshui Temple kindergarten in Nanzheng county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi province May 12, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A Chinese man who hacked to death seven young children and two adults in the latest in a series of deadly assaults on schools lashed out after an argument over a kindergarten lease, neighbors and state media said.


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