2010年8月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Summary Box: Chinese refiner Sinopec 1H profit up (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:18 AM PDT

AP - RESULTS: Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner by capacity, says its first-half profit rose nearly 7 percent thanks to rising demand, though it faces higher costs due to climbing crude oil prices.

China may scrap death penalty for some crimes (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:55 AM PDT

File photo shows a judge listening to a case at the Number 1 Intermediate People's Court in Beijing. China may eliminate capital punishment for some economic crimes as it moves to curb use of the death penalty in a country believed to execute more people than the rest of the world combined.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - China may eliminate capital punishment for some economic crimes as it moves to curb use of the death penalty in a country believed to execute more people than the rest of the world combined.


Summary Box: China Construction Bank profit rises (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:51 AM PDT

AP - GROWTH: State-owned China Construction Bank Ltd., the country's third-largest commercial lender, said its first-half profit rose 27 percent on a surge in fee-based businesses including credit cards and wealth management.

Tropical storm to lash south China and to bring more rain (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:09 AM PDT

A resident carries a bag of food as he walks along a flooded road in Gulouzi township of Dandong, Liaoning province, China, August 23, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Southern China is bracing for heavy rain and strong winds from a new tropical storm heading its way, state media said on Monday, the latest in a series of severe weather which has killed nearly 3,000 people so far this year.


China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:18 AM PDT

Vehicles on the road through the central business district in Beijing on August 4. Thousands of vehicles are bogged down in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam lon the Beijing-Tibet expressway that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.


China Construction Bank profit up 27 percent (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:12 AM PDT

AP - State-owned China Construction Bank Ltd., the country's third-largest commercial lender, said its first half profit rose 27 percent on a surge in fee-based businesses including credit cards and wealth management.

China cleans up after flooding by N.Korea border (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:44 AM PDT

Picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency and distributed by Tokyo's Korean News Service shows houses submerged in North Pyongan province near the border with China. Workers in northeast China on Monday toiled to clean up the mess left by severe flooding that killed four people, forced 250,000 out of their homes and left parts of a city in North Korea under water.(AFP/KCNA via KNS)AFP - Workers in northeast China on Monday toiled to clean up the mess left by severe flooding that killed four people, forced 250,000 out of their homes and left parts of a city in North Korea under water.


China may drop death penalty for economic crimes (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:46 AM PDT

AP - China, which executes more people each year than any other country, said Monday it is considering dropping capital punishment for economic crimes.

Rain batters China; 250,000 evacuated in flood (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:32 PM PDT

** CORRECTS PHOTO NUMBER ** This photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the bird's-eye view of a damaged village after flood in Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning province, on Sunday Aug. 22, 2010.  Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Jianfeng)  ** NO SALES **AP - Flooding has forced the evacuation of more than a quarter-million people in northern China along its border with North Korea, state media said Monday.


Blackstone signs first major China housing deal (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:29 PM PDT

US private equity giant Blackstone Group has signed a deal to make its first major investment in China's booming housing market, a report said Monday.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - US private equity giant Blackstone Group has signed a deal to make its first major investment in China's booming housing market, a report said Monday.


State-run China Cinda in talks to buy AIA stake (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 08:59 PM PDT

The AIA Tower in Hong Kong. China Cinda Asset Management is leading a mainland Chinese consortium bidding for a stake in American International Group's Asian arm, AIA, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China Cinda Asset Management is leading a mainland Chinese consortium bidding for a stake in American International Group's Asian arm, AIA, a report said Monday.


China's ZTE wins European mobile network contract (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 08:52 PM PDT

File photo shows a ZTE low-cost solar-powered mobile phone. Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE has won a 254-million-dollar contract to build a mobile network in Hungary, reflecting the company's growing strength in Europe, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Lluis Gene)AFP - Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE has won a 254-million-dollar contract to build a mobile network in Hungary, reflecting the company's growing strength in Europe, a report said Monday.


South Africa's Zuma looks to China to boost trade (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 08:13 PM PDT

Reuters - South African President Jacob Zuma, struggling with sluggish growth and worker discontent at home, seeks to boost trade on Monday on a trip to China, the last of the four "BRIC" economies he has visited in little over a year since taking office..

Blackstone, Great Eagle in China housing deal: report (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 06:50 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group has agreed to a deal with Great Eagle to build high-end apartments in China, where the housing market is booming, the Financial Times said.

China ex-adviser: priority is to prevent slowdown (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:53 PM PDT

Reuters - China is unlikely to raise interest rates soon and is more likely to cut than raise banks' required reserves as Beijing aims to prevent a further slowdown in economic growth, former central bank adviser Li Yang said in remarks published on Monday.

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