2010年3月31日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Custom may explain dumping of dead babies in China (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:33 PM PDT

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT A man points at the body of a baby dumped in a river on the outskirts of Jining in China's Shandong province, on Sunday, March 28, 2010. The bodies of 21 babies, some with hospital identification tags around their tiny ankles, washed ashore on a river in eastern China and two mortuary workers were detained for allegedly dumping them. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - Rural traditions of abandoning dead infants because they're considered bad luck may have played a role in the case of 21 babies' bodies found along a river in eastern China, apparently dumped by hospital mortuary workers.

Iran envoy goes to China as sanctions talk rises (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili heads to China on Thursday for talks with the government that could hold the key to whether Tehran faces a fresh round of United Nations sanctions.

USTR takes aim at China in trade barrier reports (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - China retains a raft of non-tariff barriers, including tax rebates and quotas, that discriminate against foreign manufactured and farm goods, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Wednesday in its annual report to the U.S. Congress.

Atlantic City casino CEO 'close' to China loan (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:49 PM PDT

AP - It hasn't even opened yet, but Revel seems to be the unluckiest casino on Earth.

US cites China's 'troubling trend' of innovation barriers (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:43 PM PDT

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, pictured in 2009. The United States voiced concern Wednesday that China has erected new hurdles to foreign innovation, in an annual report to Congress on foreign trade barriers.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - The United States voiced concern Wednesday that China has erected new hurdles to foreign innovation, in an annual report to Congress on foreign trade barriers.

China blames poor safety for mine disaster (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Grieving family members arrive at the Wangjialing mine in Xiangning, northern China's Shanxi province on March 30. China's work safety watchdog has blamed lax standards at a coal mine in the north for a huge flood that left 153 workers trapped underground, as hopes fade for their rescue.(AFP/File)AFP - China's work safety watchdog has blamed lax standards at a coal mine in the north for a huge flood that left 153 workers trapped underground, as hopes faded Wednesday for their rescue.

China uproar over dead babies dumped near river (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 09:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese officials have sought to contain public outrage after workers at a hospital dumped 21 dead fetuses and infants' bodies near a river bank.

HK-listed firms 'should disclose China pollution violations' (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 09:16 AM PDT

Hong Kong should force publicly listed companies to disclose environmental violations in their operations in China, a report said. About 15 percent of firms listed in the financial centre have violated pollution regulations in mainland China, including famed beermaker Tsingtao Brewery Co., according to Beijing-based non-governmental organisation the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.(AFP/File/Chai Hin Goh)AFP - Hong Kong should force publicly listed companies to disclose environmental violations in their operations in China, a report said Wednesday.

Prison for bosses of China disco after deadly fire (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 07:21 AM PDT

AP - China's state news agency says two bosses of a nightclub in southern China have been sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison after a fire killed 44 people.

China's CNOOC says '09 profit falls 34 pct (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:58 AM PDT

AP - CNOOC Ltd., the smallest of China's three major state-owned oil companies, said Wednesday its profit sank 34 percent in 2009 on sharply lower oil prices as the company pushed its overseas expansion.

China safety body says rules ignored in mine flood (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 03:17 AM PDT

Relatives of mine worker weeps at the Wangjialing coal mine in Xiangning township, Shanxi province, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Beijing, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Workers reported underground water leaks days before a flood coursed through a coal mine in northern China, where 153 people remained trapped Tuesday in potentially one of the country's worst mining disasters, a worker and state media said.(AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Mine officials ignored safety rules and danger warnings in their haste to open a coal mine in northern China, leading to a flood that has trapped 153 workers since the weekend, a government safety body said Wednesday.

Some Yahoo email accounts hacked in China, Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 02:37 AM PDT

Reuters - Yahoo email accounts of some journalists and activists whose work relates to China were compromised in an attack discovered this week, days after Google announced it would move its Chinese-language search services out of China due to censorship concerns.

China drought leaves 24 million short of drinking water (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:46 PM PDT

A peasant farmer walks up a dusty track with spares for his broken-down tractor in Qixingcun in drought stricken Yunnan province in southwest China on March 24, 2010. In normally temperate Yunnan province the lack of significant rainfall since last September has turned vast areas into a parched environmental disaster zone of dwindling reservoirs and weakened rivers.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - China said Wednesday that more than 24 million people were short of drinking water because of a crippling drought, the worst to hit the country in a century.

Geely to leapfrog into China luxury market with Volvo (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:50 PM PDT

An employee stands at the reception desk at a Geely's showroom in Beijing on March 29, 2010. Geely hopes to use its takeover of Volvo to crack China's fast-growing luxury car market and vault into global contention using the Swedish brand's cutting-edge technology, analysts say.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - Geely hopes to use its takeover of Volvo to crack China's fast-growing luxury car market and vault into global contention using the Swedish brand's cutting-edge technology, analysts say.

Doors closing to Google in China mobile market: experts (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:20 PM PDT

China Mobile, the country's biggest cell phone operator. Mobile operators and handset manufacturers in China already seem to be turning their backs on the US firm, after it re-routed its Chinese search engine traffic to its Hong Kong site last week to evade Beijing's vast army of censors.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Google's censorship battle with Beijing may cost the US giant more than its stake in the regular Internet in China -- the door may also be slamming shut on its bid to conquer the mobile web market.

Rio trial spotlights risky China business world (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:12 PM PDT

Journalists leave the courthouse at the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court on March 29, 2010 following the convinction of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto, including. The high-profile Rio Tinto trial has lifted the lid on the opaque, and often risky, process of doing business in China -- and become an object lesson for other foreign companies, analysts say.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - The high-profile Rio Tinto trial has lifted the lid on the opaque, and often risky, process of doing business in China -- and become an object lesson for other foreign companies, analysts say.

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