2010年2月5日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China opposes planned Obama-Dalai Lama meeting (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:57 PM PST

AP - China has responded sharply to President Barack Obama's plan to meet this month with Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it is "resolutely" opposed to any such contact.

Chicken parts join menu of U.S.-China disputes (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:47 AM PST

Reuters - China said on Friday it will slap heavy anti-dumping duties on U.S. chicken parts, a move likely to aggravate trade ties between two of the world's most important economies at a time of strained political relations.

China ramps up tone in disputes with US (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 10:16 AM PST

The Dalai Lama greets supporters during a visit to Washington in 2007. China on Friday stepped up the pressure on the United States, voicing fresh anger over an upcoming visit to Washington by the Dalai Lama and pledging a response to a giant US arms sale to Taiwan.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - China on Friday stepped up the pressure on the United States, voicing fresh anger over an upcoming visit to Washington by the Dalai Lama and pledging a response to a giant US arms sale to Taiwan.


China "indignant" on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:54 AM PST

Reuters - China is indignant about new U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and its opposition to them is "very reasonable," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Friday.

US-born pandas reach new home in China (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:09 AM PST

Nicole Meese sits with and feeds giant panda Tai Shan of Washington after being loaded onto a cargo plane to be shipped back to China, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Two American-born pandas arrived in their new China home Friday, bringing a welcome dose of cuddly to the countries' currently strained relations.


China opposes Dalai Lama's US visit: state media (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:42 AM PST

The Dalai Lama greets supporters during a visit to Washington in 2007. China on Friday stepped up the pressure on the United States, voicing fresh anger over an upcoming visit to Washington by the Dalai Lama and pledging a response to a giant US arms sale to Taiwan.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - China on Friday reiterated its "constant and clear" opposition to a visit by the Dalai Lama later this month to the White House, state media said.


US-born pandas arrive 'home' in China (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:48 AM PST

One of two giant pandas arrives at the airport in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province. A AFP - A "Panda Express" jet arrived in China on Friday carrying two furry former residents of US zoos, which experts hope will do their bit to boost dwindling numbers of the notoriously under-sexed species.


China warns locals to settle migrant pay disputes (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:03 AM PST

AP - China ordered local governments Friday to settle pay disputes involving migrant workers before the country's biggest holiday — and even step in to pay workers on private construction projects if needed.

BMW: China sales more than double in January (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:37 AM PST

AP - Automaker BMW AG, the world's biggest maker of luxury cars, said Friday that its January sales in China more than doubled from a year earlier.

China says troubled Xinjiang faces long clampdown (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:48 AM PST

Chinese troops train in Urumqi, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang in September 2009. Many Uighurs in Xinjiang view China as an occupying force guilty of political, religious and cultural oppression since Beijing's control was dramatically strengthened after the 1949 Chinese Communist takeover.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - China said it will press on with a crackdown on separatism in the western region of Xinjiang in a battle that could last years, state media reported Friday.


China boss kills two workers in 44-cent pay row (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:56 PM PST

Chinese one yuan coins. A labour contractor in central China stabbed to death two workers in a dispute over three yuan (44 cents) he withheld from their salaries, state media reported on Friday.(AFP/File)AFP - A labour contractor in central China stabbed to death two workers in a dispute over three yuan (44 cents) he withheld from their salaries, state media reported on Friday.


China announces anti-dumping steps on US chicken (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:46 PM PST

AP - China announced anti-dumping duties of up to 105.4 percent Friday on imports of U.S. chicken products, adding to trade strains with Washington.

Report: China sentences kidnapper to death (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:27 PM PST

AP - Chinese state media say one person has been sentenced to death and 24 sentenced to prison in nine kidnapping cases.

Mayor vows continued crackdown in China's west (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:21 PM PST

AP - China's crackdown on suspected separatists in the western region of Xinjiang will continue in order to maintain social stability following last year's deadly ethnic riots, a top regional official said.

China sentences one to death for kidnapping (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:24 PM PST

File photo shows Chinese police officers in front of a big hammer and sickle logo of the Communist Party in the southern city of Guangzhou. Courts in southern China have sentenced one person to death and 24 others to jail terms in a string of kidnapping cases, including one in which the victim died, state media reported.(AFP/File)AFP - Courts in southern China have sentenced one person to death and 24 others to jail terms in a string of kidnapping cases, including one in which the victim died, state media reported.


Riot-hit Xinjiang capital at risk for years (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:18 PM PST

Reuters - The capital of China's restless far western region of Xinjiang, hit by ethnic riots last year in which about 200 died, faces a long struggle to maintain stability, its mayor said in comments reported on Friday.

Rio Tinto hires new China boss to improve ties (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:45 PM PST

Reuters - Rio Tinto has named fluent Mandarin speaker Ian Bauert to head its China business, at a time of tense iron ore price talks and a case against four employees accused of illegally obtaining commercial secrets.

China to impose anti-dumping penalties on US chicken (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:22 PM PST

Frozen chicken wings line a supermarket shelf in Beijing in September 2009. China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move likely to up the pressure on strained Sino-US relations.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move sure to increase the pressure on strained Sino-US relations.


China aide to go to North Korea for nuclear talks - report (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:04 PM PST

A North Korean border guard at his post along the Yalu River in Sinuiju, on the border with China. North Korea announced Friday it would release a US missionary who entered the communist country on Christmas Day to urge leader Kim Jong-Il to resign for human rights abuses.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)Reuters - A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit Pyongyang next week in what appears to be a move to press North Korea to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.


Rising Fortunes Are Building China's Housing Market (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 03:17 PM PST

Investor's Business Daily - China's young and red-hot housing market got caught up in the recession along with the rest of the world. But its downturn became neither as severe nor as prolonged as in the U.S.
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