2010年4月26日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Charles River Labs to buy China medical company (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:05 PM PDT

AP - Medical research equipment and services company Charles River Laboratories International Inc. plans to buy WuXi PharmaTech, a Chinese pharmaceutical outsourcing company, for $1.6 billion.

Multi-nationals go for 'guanxi' at China's Expo (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:24 AM PDT

A concept car by GM is displayed during a media preview of the GM and SAIC pavilion of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on April 11. GM and Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. have built a state-of-the-art theatre that creates the sensation of soaring over Shanghai in the year 2030, with emissions and congestion eliminated by electric cars.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Coca-Cola is flying in hip-hop stars, Barclays is bringing English football's Premier League trophy and General Motors will offer a glimpse of the future as foreign firms woo China's massive market at the Shanghai Expo.


Murphy gets better of Ding as Rocket sinks Williams in snooker (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Ronnie O'Sullivan of England plays a shot during his World Championship Snooker match against Mark Williams of Wales, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. O'Sullivan racked up three century breaks in the space of seven frames as he powered past Mark Williams and into the last eight of the World Championship here on Monday.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - China's number one Ding Junhui crashed out of the snooker World Championship on Monday as 2005 champion Shaun Murphy moved into the quarters with a 13-10 victory.


Tibetan writer detained after quake critique (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:35 AM PDT

Asian artists including from left front roll, Hong Kong movie star Sammo Hung, China's singer Sun Nan, Hong Kong's movie stars Andy Lau, Jackie Chan and Do Do Cheng perform during a charity show 'Artistes 414 Fundraising Campaign' for the victims of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu county in northwest Chinas Qinghai province in Hong Kong Monday, April 26, 2010.  (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - A Tibetan writer who had signed an open letter critical of the Chinese government's quake relief efforts in western Qinghai province has been detained by police, according to a family friend.


Sparkle returns to Shanghai's elite nightlife (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:05 AM PDT

The Shanghai skyline. With its gilded youth and glitzy bars, Shanghai, host city of this year's World Expo, is rapidly reviving the thing for which it was once truly famous: nightlife.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - With its gilded youth and glitzy bars, Shanghai, host city of this year's World Expo, is rapidly reviving the thing for which it was once truly famous: nightlife.


As they fold, Indonesia garment makers blame China (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:36 PM PDT

AP - Mufardi Rusli's neighbors hunch over tables covered in brightly colored fabric, the whirring of their sewing machines echoing across his Jakarta neighborhood. For Rusli, the sound is a bitter reminder of the $2 line of jackets that bankrupted him, costing him a garment business it took 15 years to build.

China seen staking "middle" role at nuclear talks (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:48 PM PDT

Reuters - China is likely to stake out a position between the big nuclear weapons states and the non-nuclear-armed countries at an international conference next month, a prominent Swedish think tank said on Monday.

China quake leaves 8,000 monks homeless: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:50 PM PDT

Tibetan monks gather outside their destroyed monastery in Jiegu, Yushu county, in China's northwestern province of Qinghai last week. The quake in China's remote northwest has left more than 8,000 monks homeless after damaging nearly 90 monasteries, state media said Monday, as the focus of relief work moved onto resettling survivors.(AFP/Str)AFP - The quake in China's remote northwest has left more than 8,000 monks homeless after damaging nearly 90 monasteries, state media said Monday, as the focus of relief work moved onto resettling survivors.


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