2010年5月12日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


7 children killed at China school in latest attack (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:38 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers take an injured child to ICU at 3201 Hospital in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province Wednesday, May 12, 2010. An attacker hacked seven children and one teacher to death Wednesday and wounded 20 other people in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China, the latest in a string of savage assaults at the country's schools. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wu Tianchang) ** NO SALES **AP - A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults — the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself.


China's role grows in debate over Iran sanctions (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 May 2010 01:16 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BEIJING_ As world powers wrangle this month at the United Nations about how to handle Iran's nuclear plans, China is attempting to balance its thirst for Iranian oil and natural gas with its ambition to be a diplomatic heavyweight.

U.S. to press China on indigenous innovation: Locke (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2010 11:57 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. concerns about China's policies to promote domestic innovation by imposing unfavorable terms on foreign companies will be a major topic at high-level bilateral talks this month in Beijing, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday.

Nine hacked to death in new Chinese school rampage (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 08:45 AM PDT

A Chinese woman cries after she discovered her child was among the victims in an attack on a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi province. A disgruntled landlord hacked to death seven young children and two adults with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten in northern China, in the latest in a series of violent school attacks.(AFP/AFP)AFP - A disgruntled landlord hacked to death seven young children and two adults with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten in northern China Wednesday in the latest in a series of violent school attacks.


Nine killed in latest China school rampage (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2010 07:23 AM PDT

A policeman walks outside Shengshui Temple kindergarten in Nanzheng county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi province May 12, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Seven children and the owners of a kindergarten were hacked to death in northwest China on Wednesday, the latest in a string of assaults on schools, prompting officials to vow to "strike hard" to calm public alarm.


Recent violent attacks at schools in China (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:53 AM PDT

Medical staff attend an injured child at a hospital after an attack in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province Wednesday, May 12, 2010. An attacker with a cleaver hacked to death seven children and two adults at a kindergarten in Hanzhong City on Wednesday, the latest in a string of savage assaults on the country's schools. Eleven other children were wounded. The killer, 48-year-old Wu Huanming, returned home after the attack on the outskirts of the city of Hanzhong and committed suicide, the local government reported. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)  **  TV OUT CHINA OUT  **AP - China has seen a slew of recent assaults at schools. Many have been blamed on personal grudges or people with psychiatric problems:


China quake rebuilding rush shows power and pitfalls (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:50 AM PDT

Workers reinforce the ruins of the Sichuan earthquake in Beichuan county, Sichuan province May 8, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Construction cranes, armies of workers and a forest of homes have replaced the corpses and shattered buildings that were all that remained of Yingxiu two years ago.


China environmentalist released after prison term (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 01:33 AM PDT

AP - A leading Chinese environmentalist has been released after serving a three-year prison sentence on what he says were trumped up charges of blackmailing polluting businesses.

China quake families to register dead, two years on (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 12:24 AM PDT

People walk through the devastated town of Beichuan in China's earthquake ravaged Sichuan province, in May 2009. Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, families of the thousands of missing people can on Wednesday finally register their loved ones as dead.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, families of the thousands of missing people can on Wednesday finally register their loved ones as dead.


China's Hot Growth Stirs Worries Over Prices, Gov't Policy (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Investor's Business Daily - Chinese stocks fell into a bear market Tuesday as bubbling inflation and real estate prices fueled expectations that Beijing will take further steps to slow the booming economy.
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