2010年3月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China faces new pressure to let currency rise (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, a bank clerk counts U.S. dollars and RMB yuan notes for a customer at a bank in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. China faces mounting pressure from trading partners to loosen currency controls and is giving signs it might raise the value of the yuan to ease strains on its fast-growing economy. (AP Photo, File)AP - China faces mounting pressure from trading partners to loosen currency controls and is giving signs it might raise the value of the yuan to ease strains on its fast-growing economy.

Sweden jails Uighur Chinese man for spying (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 10:08 AM PST

Reuters - Sweden has sentenced a Uighur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed Monday.

China sees long-term growth in housing prices (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:57 AM PST

This picture taken on March 2, shows a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk past highrise developments in the central business district of Beijing. Soaring Chinese housing prices will rise further in 2010 and beyond as the nation develops and as local officials push property sales as a revenue source, the country's housing minister said Monday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Soaring Chinese housing prices will rise further in 2010 and beyond as the nation develops and as local officials push property sales as a revenue source, the country's housing minister said Monday.

China vows moves on property prices, health care (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:40 AM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, and President Hu Jintao prepare to leave after a session of the annual National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Senior Chinese officials vowed Monday to rein in skyrocketing home prices, make medical services more affordable and improve social security, key issues that have provoked widespread discontent that the government fears could threaten stability.

China banker says local govt debt may be bank risk (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:45 AM PST

AP - China's banks might face risks if finance arms set up by local governments to invest in real estate and infrastructure projects cannot repay heavy borrowing, a deputy central bank governor said Monday.

Heavy security is the new normal in China's Tibet (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:19 AM PST

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, a Tibetan woman steps out from a house in the village of Gong Chong, near Linzhi city in western China's Tibet province. A boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region's Chinese-appointed governor said Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/David Wivell)AP - The troops with automatic rifles patrolling the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet are as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims.

Organizers prep for 70 mln Shanghai Expo visitors (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:03 AM PST

A worker pushes a cart in front of the Chinese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site Monday, March 8, 2010 in Shanghai. Less than two months before the Shanghai World Expo opens, organizers said Monday that preparations for taking the wrapping off the pavilions and putting crowd control measures in place for the expected 70 million visitors are on track. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Organizers appealed Monday for patience from the expected 70 million visitors to Shanghai's World Expo, which opens in under two months, because not all of them will be able to see the most popular pavilions.

Searching for Zheng: China's Ming-Era Voyager (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:15 AM PST

Time.com - Medieval admiral Zheng He has become a potent symbol for modern China

China cautions against expecting fast yuan rise (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:04 AM PST

An employee poses with China yuan notes at the Bank of Taiwan head office in Taipei March 8, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - Any rise in the yuan's exchange rate will be gradual, China's trade chief said on Monday in comments that underline the competing interests at the heart of Chinese policy-making.

China to boost rural representation in parliament (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:20 PM PST

A farmer carries bundles of dried corn stalks across farmland on the outskirts of Cangzhou last month in northern China's Hebei province. China will increase rural representation in its parliament, according to draft legislation unveiled Monday amid concern over a widening gap between its countryside and cities.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China will increase rural representation in its parliament, according to draft legislation unveiled Monday amid concern over a widening gap between its countryside and cities.

Talk of China giving up on dollar is nonsense: banker (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 06:57 PM PST

Reuters - Any speculation that China might stop supporting the dollar in the next few years is absolute nonsense, a top state banker said.

China's women struggle for a foothold in power (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 06:00 PM PST

Attendants stand in a line to pose for a picture outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, during the second plenary meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC) March 8, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - Chairman Mao famously said women hold up half the sky, but in today's China, the half that matters, the economy, often remains out of their reach.

Days of "special" yuan policy numbered: China c.bank (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 05:12 PM PST

Reuters - China flagged on Saturday it will let the yuan resume its rise at some point as it unwinds the super-loose policies it has been pursuing to prop up the world's third-largest economy.

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