2010年3月25日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Child mortality highlights China's urban-rural divide (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 05:06 PM PDT

Reuters - Children born in rural China are three to six times more likely to die before they turn 5 than those in the cities, a study found, highlighting the wide gulf in healthcare provision for the rich and poor in China.

China bans poet from traveling to US conference (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken in August 2007 and provided by Cui Weiping, Cui poses for photos at a park in Beijing, China. The pixie-ish literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's government, denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States this week. (AP Photo/Cui Weiping, File)AP - A pixie-ish literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's government, denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States this week.

China, Afghanistan vow to fight terrorism, drugs (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 08:59 AM PDT

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, pictured on March 22, pledged Thursday to extend aid and economic support for Afghanistan's reconstruction, while calling for both nations to jointly fight terrorism and drug trafficking.(AFP/POOL/File/Feng Li)AFP - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged Thursday to extend aid and economic support for Afghanistan's reconstruction, while calling for both nations to jointly fight terrorism and drug trafficking.

China's New Requirement for Women in Space: Married with Children (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 08:00 AM PDT

China's Shenzhou VI manned mission into space carrying two astronauts, lifts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, in China's Gansu province in 2005. China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday.(AFP/Xinhua/File)Time.com - China's first two female reserve astronauts, selected earlier this month from a pool of fifteen women fighter pilots, were required to be wives and mothers. Why?

China says willing to talk more with US (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 07:03 AM PDT

China said Thursday it was willing to boost contacts with the United States to resolve a host of issues that are dogging ties, including a long-standing dispute over the value of the yuan.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China said Thursday it was willing to boost contacts with the United States to resolve a host of issues that are dogging ties, including a long-standing dispute over the value of the yuan.

China says it agrees with Afghanistan on politics (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 06:38 AM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Beijing, China. A top Chinese official reassured visiting Karzai on Thursday that Beijing won't take a position when it comes to Afghan politics. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)AP - China reassured visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday that it won't be joining the chorus of disapproval at home and abroad over corruption, cronyism and electoral fraud plaguing his government.

China to deliver Rio Tinto verdict on Monday (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 05:36 AM PDT

A police van pulls out of the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai on March 24. The verdict in the high-profile Chinese trial of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto will be delivered on March 29, the Anglo-Australian firm announced(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A Chinese court will deliver its verdict in the politically sensitive trial of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto on March 29, the Anglo-Australian firm said Thursday.

Verdict on China Rio trial on Monday, Australia says (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 05:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Australia said on Thursday it had been told by China that the verdict in the trial of four Rio Tinto executives charged with bribery and stealing commercial secrets will be handed down on Monday.

China miner to buy Brazil's Itaminas iron ore mine (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:55 AM PDT

AP - A state-run Chinese mining company said Thursday it has agreed to buy the Itaminas iron ore mine in Brazil from its owner, Bernardo de Mello.

PetroChina's 2009 net profit falls 9.7 percent (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:51 AM PDT

AP - PetroChina Ltd., Asia's biggest oil producer, said Thursday its net profit fell 9.7 percent in 2009 as sluggish demand and controls on prices for its processed products squeezed its refining margins.

China suffering 'diabetes epidemic' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 03:41 AM PDT

A man is seen eating fast food on a street in Beijing. China faces a diabetes epidemic, a new report has warned, with rising obesity levels and an ageing population helping to trigger a major public health problem.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China now has a diabetes "epidemic" as obesity rates rise, a study warned Thursday, with one in 10 adults in the rapidly developing nation suffering from a disease already rampant in the West.

China drills more wells, seeds clouds amid drought (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:40 AM PDT

A girl carries bottles of water fetched from a mountain spring at a village in Qinglong county, in China's Guizhou province, Monday, March 22, 2010. The worst drought in decades in China's southern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, as well as the Guangxi Autonomous Region and the city of Chongqing, has forced local governments to tap underground water sources and use cloud seeding to produce rain for agricultural production. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000 schools to close, officials said Thursday.

China sees interest rates as "heavy-duty weapon" (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:49 PM PDT

An employee checks U.S. dollar banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Hefei, Anhui province November 2, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A senior Chinese central banker on Thursday played down the need for an imminent rise in borrowing costs to keep a balance between growth and inflation in the world's third-largest economy.

Chinese investors eye New Zealand's dairy sector (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:32 PM PDT

In this image from March 29, 2007, Fonterra, the world' biggest trader in dairy products, Whareroa processing plant is seen near New Plymouth, New Zealand. New Zealand on Monday, March 22, 2010, hit back at a group of 30 U.S. senators who accused the country's dairy industry of anticompetitive practices, as a first round of talks ended for a free trade agreement. (AP Photo/NZPA, Rob Tucker) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO ARCHIVES, NO SALES **AP - A Hong Kong-based investment group says it wants to invest up to New Zealand dollars 1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) in New Zealand's dairy industry to make high-quality infant formula and long-life milk products for the Chinese market.

China official rejects U.S. complaints on currency (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:24 PM PDT

An employee counts yuan banknotes next to U.S. dollar banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Changzhi, Shanxi province, March 9, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A Chinese official said on Wednesday China would reform its currency policy gradually and keep the exchange rate stable, rejecting mounting U.S. calls to allow the yuan to rise more quickly.

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