2010年3月28日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China to deliver Rio Tinto verdict (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai on March 24. A Chinese court is to deliver its verdict on Monday in the sensitive trial of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto, a case that has thrown a spotlight on the opaque Chinese steel industry.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A Chinese court is to deliver its verdict on Monday in the sensitive trial of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto, a case that has thrown a spotlight on the opaque Chinese steel industry.


153 trapped in flooded China coal mine (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 12:36 PM PDT

About 150 workers were trapped by a flood at a vast coal mine under construction in northern China on Sunday, the latest in a long list of accidents in the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - About 150 workers were trapped by a flood at a vast coal mine under construction in northern China on Sunday, the latest in a long list of accidents in the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.


China's Geely seals Volvo Cars takeover (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 09:25 AM PDT

A Volvo car on display at a shopping mall in Beijing. Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a 1.8-billion-dollar deal on Sunday to buy Volvo Cars as the Chinese company unleashed its global ambitions with what it called a Swedish AFP - Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a 1.8-billion-dollar deal on Sunday to buy Volvo Cars as the Chinese company unleashed its global ambitions with what it called a Swedish "tiger".


China's forced evictions cause instability (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Cao Wenxia, 75, the owner of a nail house, walks out of his house in Hefei, Anhui province January 29, 2010. Cao's family refuse to move due to unsatisfied compensation for their house, the last house in the area, which is about to be demolished to make way for a new commercial project. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China risks growing social instability and even violence if the government does not take effective action to address rising public anger about forced evictions and demolitions, a report released Monday said.


Missing China rights lawyer alive, say close friends (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 08:43 AM PDT

Members of a lawyers concern group hold banners in protest for the release of Beijing human rights rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and dissident critic Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong in February. Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer who has been missing for over a year, appears to be alive and is currently staying at a sacred Buddhist mountain in northern China, his close friends have said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer who has been missing for over a year, appears to be alive and is currently staying at a sacred Buddhist mountain in northern China, his close friends said Sunday.


Chinese car maker buys Volvo for $1.8 bln (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:51 AM PDT

A Volvo car on display at a shopping mall in Beijing. Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a 1.8-billion-dollar deal on Sunday to buy Volvo Cars as the Chinese company unleashed its global ambitions with what it called a Swedish AFP - Troubled Volvo Cars on Sunday confirmed that Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding sealed a deal to buy the Swedish car maker from US auto giant Ford for 1.8 billion dollars.


Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Rescuers were searching for more than 120 coal miners trapped when a pit under construction in north China's Shanxi province flooded on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Missing lawyer says he is living in northern China (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:42 AM PDT

AP - A dissident Chinese lawyer who was missing for more than a year suddenly resurfaced Sunday, saying he is now living in northern China and wants only to spend time with his family away from media attention.

123 trapped in flooded coal mine in northern China (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 05:35 AM PDT

File photo shows miners entering a coal mine in China. At least 152 workers have been trapped when a vast coal mine being built in northern China flooded, in the latest accident to hit the country's notoriously dangerous mining industry.(AFP/File)AP - At least 123 people were trapped underground Sunday after water gushed into a coal mine in northern China, a government agency said.


Well-known missing Chinese rights lawyer alive (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 03:55 AM PDT

Reuters - China's best known rights lawyer, missing for a year and feared dead, appears to be alive and is staying at a Buddhist landmark in north China after speaking to Reuters reporters and another dissident lawyer on Sunday.

Japan suspicion over China's poison dumpling arrest (AFP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 03:20 AM PDT

A packet of Chinese dumplings (bottom) and other frozen foods produced in China. Japanese media has voiced suspicion about Beijing's motives after China announced the arrest of a factory worker accused of poisoning frozen dumplings destined for Japan.(AFP/JIJI Press/File/Str)AFP - Japanese media voiced suspicion Sunday about Beijing's motives after China announced the arrest of a factory worker accused of poisoning frozen dumplings destined for Japan.


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