2010年1月16日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China launches orbiter for navigation system: state media (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:49 AM PST

A visitor looks at a display of space images at the Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai. China launched an orbiter into space early Sunday, the latest stage in the development of its own satellite navigation system, state media said.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - China launched an orbiter into space early Sunday, the latest stage in the development of its own satellite navigation system, state media said.


Yahoo pulled into Google fracas, Alibaba reacts (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:13 AM PST

Reuters - Yahoo got pulled into a growing row between China and Google on Saturday, as its Chinese partner slammed Yahoo's statements supporting Google while a source revealed the search giant had stayed silent about cyber-attacks.

Obama still seeking Chinese help on many fronts (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:26 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2009 file photo,President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - President Barack Obama came into office talking tough on China. The emerging superpower, he promised, would be treated as a competitor, not coddled as a friend or shunned as an enemy.


Taiwan to allow Chinese investment in bourse (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:42 AM PST

AP - Taiwan will allow China's institutional investors to invest up to $500 million in the island's stock market, the government said Saturday, in its latest step to relax control on trade and investment with its rival.

Haiti aid a telling test of China-Taiwan relations (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:26 AM PST

Members of the China International Search and Rescue Team depart on a plane for Haiti during a ceremony held at the airport in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 50-member Chinese rescue team heads to quake-hit Haiti hours after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake ravaged the Caribbean country. (AP Photo)AP - One of the world's trickiest relationships is being tested in devastated Haiti, where China and Taiwan are rushing aid to one of Taipei's few remaining diplomatic allies. Taiwan even announced that its president would personally deliver earthquake aid later this month.


China discovered 5 bln tonnes of iron ore in 2009 (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:01 AM PST

A photo released by Rio Tinto shows a worker holding a lump of high-grade iron ore. China discovered five billion tonnes of iron ore deposits last year, the government has said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - China discovered five billion tonnes of iron ore deposits last year, the government said.


AP Enterprise: US buyers must beware in China (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST

This is one of the stores that David Smith owns, called A Beaucoup Conge that he ships his beads to in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. The American shop owner said he would screen the trinkets for lead before they hit the shelves of his Arizona stores. But he was unaware of the recent discovery of hazardous levels of cadmium in Chinese-made children's jewelry. (AP Photo/John Miller)AP - David Smith pushed a cart piled high with boxes of beads and other jewelry through a maze of shops at a wholesale market in southern China.


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