2010年1月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China oil spill hits Yellow River (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 06:17 AM PST

Water quality monitors at the Sanmenxia reservoir detect traces of diesel in the Yellow River in Sanmenxia, north China's Henan province. An oil spill from a ruptured pipeline in northern China has reached the Yellow River, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation's drinking water, state media said.(AFP/Str)AFP - An oil spill from a ruptured pipeline in northern China has reached the Yellow River, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation's drinking water, state media said Monday.

Top China dissident appeals subversion conviction (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 05:53 AM PST

A protestor urges the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong in November 2009. The leading Chinese dissident has appealed his conviction on subversion charges but is holding out only faint hopes that his 11-year prison term will be overturned, his lawyer said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has appealed his conviction on subversion charges but is holding out only faint hopes that his 11-year prison term will be overturned, his lawyer said Monday.

Chinese dissident appeals subversion conviction (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who has arrested after asking for increased freedoms in China and the end to the Communist Party's dominance during a protest outside the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong. A lawyer said Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 the prominent dissident sentenced to 11 years' jail in China after co-writing a daring call for reform has appealed to have his subversion conviction overturned. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)AP - An imprisoned Chinese dissident has appealed his conviction on subversion charges tied to his co-writing of a daring call for political reform of the communist state, his lawyer said Monday.

GM says China sales up 67 percent in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:30 AM PST

P. Balendran, director and vice-president of General Motors (GM) India, poses with the newly-launched Chevrolet Beat in Mumbai on January 4. General Motors launched the new car on the Indian market on Monday priced at about 7,000 dollars. The car will eventually be sold in 150 countries.(AFP/Pal Pillai)AP - General Motors Co. said Monday that 2009 sales in China by the company and its local partners rose 67 percent to a record 1.8 million vehicles amid tax cuts and incentives to help boost the industry.

Survey shows China manufacturing growing (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:26 AM PST

AP - China's manufacturing expanded in December for a ninth straight month as government stimulus spending boosted domestic demand and foreign sales rose, according to a survey released Monday.

China diesel spill prompts water use alert (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:29 AM PST

Workers repair the leakage on a diesel pipeline in Huaxian county in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Workers in northern China dug diversion channels and used floating dams and solidifying agents in an effort to stem a diesel fuel leak from flowing into the Yellow River, the water source for millions of Chinese people. More than 700 workers worked overnight into Sunday morning to contain a spill that leaked from a pipeline into the Wei River in Shaanxi province following a construction accident Wednesday. (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were told Monday to stop using water from the Yellow River after an upstream pipeline leaked 100 tons of diesel fuel into a tributary.

Angry minority finds a voice on Chinese campus (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:21 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 photo, economist Ilham Tohti, from China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region speaks to students at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, China. His weekly lectures are a kind of high-wire act and he has been put under house arrest dozens of times over the past decade for criticizing how China runs his homeland and treats his people. Yet Tohti is not a separatist or even a political dissident. He's a Communist Party member and a teacher at a top Chinese university who sees himself as a bridge between Hans and Uighurs. That the government has so far refused to endorse his middle road and work with him shows how difficult it is to resolve differences between the party and its restive Uighurs and Tibetans. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Young men climb a railing at the back for a better view, while a woman in a Muslim head scarf snaps photos on her cell phone.

Chinese firms evade U.S. Iran sanctions: report (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 09:27 PM PST

Reuters - Chinese companies accused of selling missile technology to Iran have managed to get around a U.S. trade ban, with millions of dollars worth of goods from these companies shipped to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

North China struggles with icy cold snap (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 08:02 PM PST

Paramilitary policemen stand guard in front of the late Chairman Mao Zedong on a snow-covered Tiananmen Square in Beijing January 3, 2010. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Beijing authorities shut schools, mobilized extra buses and ordered thousands of residents to help clear icy roads and paths with shovels on Monday, as the Chinese capital struggled with its harshest winter weather in years.

Beijing digs out after major snow (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 07:59 PM PST

People walk near the snow-blanketed Temple of Heaven during the New Year holiday in Beijing on January 3. Schools were shut down, flights delayed and traffic snarled in the Chinese capital following two days of heavy snow, with even more frigid weather forecast.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - Schools were shut down, flights delayed and traffic snarled in Beijing on Monday following two days of heavy snow in north China, with even more frigid weather forecast.

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