2010年3月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China central bank to keep yuan basically stable (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:41 PM PST

Reuters - China's central bank pledged on Saturday to keep the yuan's exchange rate basically stable in 2010 and said it will enhance coordination with its foreign counterparts on major policy issues.

China's economic promises focus on creating jobs (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:41 PM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reads the government work report during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has pledged to extend job-creation programs and keep bank-credit flowing as Beijing tries to keep its factories humming and its workers employed at a time of growing trade tensions with the West.


China's Wen enters final push for soft-edged agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:45 AM PST

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday showed the soft-edged populism that has drawn both public devotees and political naysayers as he seeks to tame the nation's wild ride of industrial expansion.

China promises strong growth in 'crucial year' (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:44 AM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is projected on a screen as he reads out the government work report during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China's Premier Wen Jiabao promised strong growth this year and said the government will combat inflation and risks to banks to keep the rebound in the world's third-largest economy on track.


Chinese teacher pricked 63 children with syringe (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:37 AM PST

AP - A kindergarten teacher in southwestern China has admitted she used an empty hypodermic needle to prick 63 of her students on the hands, feet and buttocks as punishment for bad behavior, state media reported Friday.

China puts 23 on trial in baby trafficking case (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PST

Two Chinese parents cry and plea for the return of their abducted children as some 2,700 photos of missing children are laid out on a square in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian province on January 15, 2010. China has put 23 people on trial on suspicion of involvement in the sale of nearly 50 babies, in what state media described Friday as one of the country's biggest-ever child trafficking cases.(AFP/File)AFP - China has put 23 people on trial on suspicion of involvement in the sale of nearly 50 babies, in what state media described Friday as one of the country's biggest-ever child trafficking cases.


Mao's grandson asks: 'Comrade, where's my car?' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:04 AM PST

Mao Xinyu, grandson of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, gestures outside the Great Hall of the People after the opening session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5, 2010. Mao lost his bearings at the symbolic heart of the nation his grandfather founded and had to rely on aides to rescue him from a press pack.(AFP/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - The grandson of Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong lost his bearings Friday at the symbolic heart of the nation his grandfather founded and had to rely on aides to rescue him from a press pack.


China tightens belt but keeps eye on social rifts (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:03 AM PST

China's President Hu Jintao (2nd L) and Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd R) attend the preparatory meeting for the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 4, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - China will seek to heal social rifts and spur home-driven growth with more public welfare and rural spending even as the government tightens its belt after a burst of feverish spending, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday.


China's Panchen Lama vows to defend ethnic unity: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:37 PM PST

The Panchen Lama is seen in 2009 in Wuxi. China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Panchen Lama, has vowed to defend national and ethnic unity in his debut as a delegate to a parliamentary advisory body.(AFP/Pool/File/Eugene Hoshiko)AFP - China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Panchen Lama, has vowed to defend national and ethnic unity in his debut as a delegate to a parliamentary advisory body.


China's Wen says seeks peace, trade deal with Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:37 PM PST

Policemen stand in front of a Taiwan flag at the venue of cross strait talks in Taichung December 20, 2009. REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - China said on Friday it wants to sign a broad economic agreement with Taiwan, which would slash import tariffs and open the banking sector, as part of a drive to promote peaceful ties with the self-ruled island.


China eyes 11 percent industrial output growth this year (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 07:41 PM PST

Reuters - China must have 11 percent industrial output growth this year to achieve its GDP target of 8 percent, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said on Friday.

China wants to restart NKorea nuclear talks soon (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 06:43 PM PST

Former highly decorated North Korean colonel Kim Jong Ryul gestures at a news conference in Vienna, on Thursday, March 4, 2010, on the occasion of the presentation of the book 'Im Dienst des Diktators' ('At the Dictator's Service') by Ingrid Steiner-Gashi and Dardan Gashi.   The highly decorated North Korean colonel who spent two decades going on European shopping sprees for his country's rulers has revealed how the late dictator Kim Il Sung lived in luxury and pampered himself with expensive cars and delicacies as the hungry masses outside his opulent palaces struggled to survive.  (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - China hopes to revive stalled negotiations on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program within the next few months, an official newspaper reported Friday.


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