2010年5月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China's consumer prices, bank lending rise in April (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 09:07 AM PDT

A saleswoman checks her mobile as she waits for customers at a market in Beijing on May 10. China said Tuesday that consumer prices and bank lending accelerated in April, fuelling fears the economy may overheat and building pressure on Beijing to hike interest rates and let its currency rise.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - China said Tuesday that consumer prices and bank lending accelerated in April, fuelling fears the economy may overheat and building pressure on Beijing to hike interest rates and let its currency rise.

China, US to renew human rights talks (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 08:56 AM PDT

AP - This week's resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics say is a deterioration in Beijing's record on legal protections, free speech and civil society.

China environmentalist alleges brutal jail treatment (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:41 AM PDT

Top Chinese environmentalist Wu Lihong (seen here in 2006) has said he was beaten and suffered brutal treatment while serving a three-year jail term imposed after he spoke out about rampant pollution in a major lake.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - A top Chinese environmentalist said Tuesday he was beaten and suffered brutal treatment while serving a three-year jail term imposed after he spoke out about rampant pollution in a major lake.

China prices point to tightening, but not immediately (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 02:32 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese annual inflation pushed up to an 18-month high in April and property prices rose at a record clip, showing that the government still has its work cut out to keep the world's third-largest economy from boiling over.

China inflation rises as housing, food costs jump (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:44 AM PDT

A Chinese woman carries vegetables together with currency banknotes in hand at a morning market in Beijing, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. China's inflation accelerated in April and housing prices rose at a record pace, but analysts said Beijing is likely to avoid an immediate interest hike that might slow the recovery of the world's third-largest economy. April consumer prices rose 2.8 percent from a year earlier, below Beijing's full-year target of 3 percent but up 0.4 percentage points from March, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. Food prices jumped 5.9 percent, up from March's 5.2 percent rate. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China's inflation accelerated in April, triggering a selloff in Chinese stocks Tuesday on fears of overheating and a possible credit clampdown by Beijing that might slow the country's economic recovery.

17,921 still 'missing' 2 years after China quake (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 4, 2009 file photo, mourners light up fire crackers, burn incense and make offerings to those who died in May 12, 2008 earthquake, on the grave sweeping day in Beichuan, Sichuan, China. Wednesday, May 12, 2010 marks the second anniversary of China's worst disaster in a generation, the Sichuan earthquake, and a painful milestone for the families of the 17,921 people still recorded as missing. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - Wednesday marks the second anniversary of China's worst disaster in a generation, the Sichuan earthquake — and a painful milestone for the families of the 17,921 people still recorded as missing.

Top AIDS activist flees China for US (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Beijing-based AIDS campaigner Wan Yanhai, pictured in China. The country's top AIDS activist, whose group helped uncover a major tainted blood-selling scandal in the 1990s, has said he had fled with his family to the United States because he feared for his safety.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's top AIDS activist, whose group helped uncover a major tainted blood-selling scandal in the 1990s, said Tuesday he had fled with his family to the United States because he feared for his safety.

Floods kill 70 in southern China (AP)

Posted: 10 May 2010 10:14 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday May 6, 2010, villagers comb the remains of a house collapsed by a flash flood in Shuiche township of Xinhua county in south China's Hunan province. Heavy rain and wind swept across southern China, damaging thousands of houses and killing dozens. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Torrential rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon have swept across parts of southern China, toppling homes, destroying crops and killing at least 70 people, state media reported Tuesday. More flooding was expected.

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