2010年5月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Geithner to press China on trade barriers, yuan (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday that a stronger Chinese yuan would help level the playing field for American exporters, but he would focus mainly on reducing trade barriers in talks with Beijing next week.

China's development strategy shift 'encouraging': US (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 03:49 PM PDT

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, pictured in 2009, said Tuesday that export-driven China was shifting its development strategy to rely more on domestic consumption, a move he described as AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that export-driven China was shifting its development strategy to rely more on domestic consumption, a move he described as "encouraging."


USTR Kirk to press China on piracy, innovation (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States will use economic talks next week with China to focus on intellectual property rights protection and China's "indigenous innovation" industrial policy which discriminates against foreign firms, U.S. Trade representative Ron Kirk said on Tuesday.

Senators say China suppresses IMF yuan criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2010 02:11 PM PDT

Reuters - A group of 10 senators accused China on Tuesday of suppressing an International Monetary Fund report that they believe concluded that Beijing manipulates its yuan currency to gain an unfair export advantage.

US Senators seek pressure on China over currency (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 12:49 PM PDT

A Chinese customer shows off a handful of hundred-yuan notes at a bank in Beijing. Ten US Senators pressed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday to push China to release an IMF report they said could be the smoking gun proving Beijing manipulates its currency, the yuan.(AFP/File)AFP - Ten US Senators pressed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday to push China to release an IMF report they said could be the smoking gun proving Beijing manipulates its currency, the yuan.


Swingers' case tests sexual limits in China (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT

AP - They were members of a modern-day swingers' club in China, where people met online and then gathered in homes or hotels for group sex parties involving dozens of men and women.

Yemen: kidnapped Chinese oil engineers released (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 07:26 AM PDT

AP - After several days of mediation, kidnappers have released two Chinese engineers working in Yemen, a provincial governor said Tuesday.

Tycoon, once China's richest man, jailed for graft (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 07:07 AM PDT

This file photo taken on November 21, 2006 shows Chinese tycoon Huang Guangyu. Huang, a school drop-out who became China's richest man by building an electronics and home appliance empire, was jailed Tuesday for 14 years for bribery and insider trading, capping a stunning fall from grace.(AFP/File)AFP - A school drop-out who became China's richest man by building an electronics and home appliance empire was jailed Tuesday for 14 years for bribery and insider trading, capping a stunning fall from grace.


China expects inflation to rise in May, June (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 03:56 AM PDT

AP - China's inflation should rise slightly in May and June but the overall increase in consumer prices for the first half should be just 2.5 percent over a year earlier, a Cabinet agency said Tuesday.

Chinese appliance tycoon jailed for 14 years (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 02:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2006 file photo, Gome Appliances Chairman Huang Guangyu, also known as Wong Kwong-yu, speaks during the announcement of a partnership between Gome and Motorola in Beijing, China.  The home appliance dealer who once was China's richest businessman was sentenced Tuesday, May 18, 2010 to 14 years in prison after being convicted of insider trading and other offenses, the government announced. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - An appliance retailer who was once China's richest businessman was sentenced to 14 years for insider trading and other crimes Tuesday, the latest in a series of Chinese tycoons jailed for financial offenses.


Beijing lessons can forge Games "health legacy": WHO (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2010 01:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Public health in Beijing benefited greatly from the Olympics and the city's experience can act as a lesson for the development of a "health legacy" for future major sporting events, the WHO said on Tuesday. China spent an estimated $40 billion on hosting the Olympics in 2008, including many projects which had a direct benefit to public health like attempts to reduce Beijing's notorious air pollution.

China welcomes Iran nuclear fuel swap deal (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2010 01:06 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claps as he looks at an object representing nuclear fuel in Tehran April 9, 2010. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/FilesReuters - China has welcomed a nuclear fuel swap plan Iran announced after talks with Brazil and Turkey, urging negotiations over the deepening dispute even as Western powers condemned the new deal as too limited.


US Commerce Secretary leads trade mission to China (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2010 12:02 AM PDT

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, right, holds a glass object with 3D image of Shanghai Tower which was presented by Chinese side, as Kong Qingwei, president of Shanghai Tower Construction & Development Co., Ltd. speaks Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Locke and two-dozen American businesses are visiting China, aiming to boost clean energy technology sales as one industry leader announced a fresh contract to supply components for wind turbines. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is leading an American trade mission to China, aiming to boost clean energy technology sales as one industry leader announced a fresh contract to supply components for Chinese wind turbines.


Woman dies after latest China cleaver attack (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 11:20 PM PDT

One woman has died of the injuries she suffered after a man hacked six people with a meat cleaver in southern China, police and state media said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - One woman has died of her injuries suffered when a man hacked six people with a meat cleaver in southern China, police and state media said Tuesday.


China warns officials over property corruption (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 10:48 PM PDT

Property under construction in Beijing. China's ruling communists are cracking down on official corruption in the real estate market, warning of stiff penalties for anyone caught trying to cash in on the property boom, state media has said.(AFP/File)AFP - China's ruling communists are cracking down on official corruption in the real estate market, warning of stiff penalties for anyone caught trying to cash in on the property boom, state media has said.


China targets Tibet artists, intellectuals: report (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 09:57 PM PDT

Reuters - China is cracking down on Tibetan intellectuals and artists who have sought to open up discussion of the future of their region after unrest that spread across the area in Spring 2008, an overseas activist group said on Tuesday.

1 dead, 5 wounded in latest China rampage attack (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 09:27 PM PDT

AP - A cleaver-wielding man killed one woman and wounded five before jumping to his death, police said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of rampage attacks in China.

China's one-time richest man jailed for 14 years (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 08:10 PM PDT

File photo of Huang Guangyu as he gestures during an interview at Reuters China Century Summit in Beijing September 7, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Lee/FilesReuters - China's one-time richest man and the founder of a major retail chain was jailed for 14 years on Tuesday for bribery, insider trading and illegal business dealings, state media reported.


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