2010年4月21日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


U.S. delays China yuan probe in aluminum case (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday delayed a decision on investigating whether China's currency practices are an illegal trade subsidy that justify imposing countervailing duties.

Tibetan monks ordered out of China's quake zone (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Ding Junhui of China plays a shot during his World Championship Snooker match against Stuart Pettman of England at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. A sombre Ding breezed into the last 16 of the world championship, quickly wrapping up a 10-1 win over Pettman before expressing his sadness over last week's deadly earthquake in China.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AP - Earthquake survivors say it was the Tibetan monks who helped first, bringing food, pitching tents and digging through rubble after disaster hit far western China a week ago, killing thousands.


China clones woollier cashmere goats (AFP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:12 AM PDT

Goat herders cull the hair from their mountain goats on a road near Laishui in eastern China's Hebei province. Scientists in China have cloned a dozen goats engineered with a gene that boosts wool growth, with a view to increasing output of cashmere fibre, state-run media reported Wednesday.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - Scientists in China have cloned a dozen goats engineered with a gene that boosts wool growth, with a view to increasing output of cashmere fibre, state-run media reported Wednesday.


Day of mourning for China's earthquake victims (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:22 AM PDT

Tibetan monks attend a mass prayer for earthquake victims in the quake-hit Gyegu town of Yushu county, Qinghai province April 20, 2010. China will hold a national day of mourning for victims of an earthquake in the country's western region, the government announced on Tuesday, as the official death toll from the disaster climbed to 2,039, state media reported. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Horns and sirens sounded and crowds bowed their heads in mourning on Wednesday in the western Chinese province where an earthquake a week ago devastated the heavily Tibetan county of Yushu.


Two jailed for life over Shanghai building failure (AFP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:27 AM PDT

The residential building collapsed in June 2009. Two bosses at a property development company that built the 13-storey building which fell over in Shanghai last year have been jailed for life on graft charges.(AFP/File/AFP)AFP - Two bosses of a property development company that built a 13-storey building which fell over in Shanghai last year have been jailed for life on graft charges, state media reported on Wednesday.


2 China lawyers who defended Falun Gong face ban (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:38 AM PDT

AP - Two Chinese lawyers who represented a Falun Gong practitioner face the permanent loss of their legal licenses — a new government tactic to tighten its grip on human rights defenders.

China's Ding breezes into second snooker round (AFP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 04:32 AM PDT

Neil Robertson of Australia, seen here on April 20, won through to the last 16 of the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre here on Wednesday with a hard-fought 10-5 first round win over Fergal O'Brien.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - A sombre Ding Junhui breezed into the last 16 of the world championship on Wednesday, quickly wrapping up a 10-1 win over Stuart Pettman before expressing his sadness over last week's deadly earthquake in China.


China's Geely challenge: High hopes, hard reality (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:55 AM PDT

AP - Chinese tycoon Li Shufu's car company Geely has a knack for giving its vehicles oddball names: Gleagle, King Kong, Englon.

Shanghai's Expo trials get crowded, rocky start (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:01 AM PDT

AP - Visitors to Shanghai's World Expo say organizers have plenty of kinks to iron out before the event — the biggest-ever World's Fair — formally opens on May Day.

China orders quarterly mortgage stress tests (AFP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 12:38 AM PDT

People panic while queueing to join a waiting list for new apartments in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province. Banking regulators in China have ordered lenders to conduct quarterly stress tests on mortgages as the government tries to clamp down on bad loans and rein in real estate speculation.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese banking regulators have ordered lenders to conduct quarterly stress tests on mortgages as the government tries to clamp down on bad loans and rein in real estate speculation.


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