2010年5月9日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Man kills eight in China stabbing rampage (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 08:02 AM PDT

A Chinese special police sniper team undergoes training in Beijing on May 5. A man stabbed to death eight people including his wife, elderly mother and young daughter in a village in southeastern China, the latest in a spate of rampage attacks that have shocked the nation.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - A man stabbed to death eight people including his wife, elderly mother and young daughter in a village in southeastern China, the latest in a spate of rampage attacks that have shocked the nation.


India minister says chance of climate deal 'remote' (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 04:47 AM PDT

A wind park in Copenhagen. India's environment minister has warned that there was little prospect of a breakthrough in efforts to forge an international agreement this year to fight global warming.(AFP/DDP/File/Axel Schmidt)AFP - India's environment minister warned Sunday that there was little prospect of a breakthrough in efforts to forge an international agreement this year to fight global warming.


Man stabs 8 to death in latest China rampage (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 04:42 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese man on a stabbing rampage killed eight people in the country's southeast, including his mother, wife and daughter, police and new reports said Sunday.

Toll from China storms hits 70 (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Residents search for victims in the rubble of a destroyed home in the town of Xinhua in central China's Hunan province on May 6. The death toll from fierce storms and torrential rains battering southern China has risen to at least 70 people with tens of thousands left homeless, state media have reported.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - The death toll from fierce storms and torrential rains battering southern China has risen to at least 70 people with tens of thousands left homeless, state media reported Sunday.


Expect no climate deal this year: Indian minister (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 12:50 AM PDT

AP - The chance of a climate change agreement this year is remote because the United States and China are unwilling to make more commitments during the talks, India's environment minister said Sunday.

China disbars two rights defense lawyers (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:48 PM PDT

Reuters - Two human rights lawyers who represented defendants in sensitive cases, including members of the banned Falun Gong sect, have been permanently disbarred, according to the Beijing bureau of justice.

"Murdered" Chinese man reappears after 10 years (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:32 PM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese man who was supposedly hacked to death in a fight has reappeared in his hometown after 10 years, state media said, raising questions about police torture to extract a confession from the alleged killer.

Low visitor numbers dent Shanghai Expo's high hopes (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 10:02 PM PDT

Visitors walk by the Chinese pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo on May 5, 2010. Massive queues snake around the steel and glass pavilions, and signs warn of four-hour waits at key sites -- indications the first week of China's World Expo in Shanghai has been a huge success.(AFP)AFP - Massive queues snake around the steel and glass pavilions, and signs warn of four-hour waits at key sites -- indications the first week of China's World Expo in Shanghai has been a huge success.


Chinese city opens its books in a step for reform (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this photo taken March 17, 2010, an elderly Chinese man studies mahjong pieces at an elderly community center near the Wenqiao town of Wenling in eastern China's Zhejiang province. The people of Wenling, a prosperous city of 1.7 million, have an opportunity few Chinese citizens do: to take part in hearings on local government budget plans and suggest ways to spend the money. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - In front of a roomful of government officials, businessman Zhou Jusheng took the mic and made a simple demand: finish paving and landscaping the industrial park that houses his drill-bit factory.


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