2010年5月14日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

No breakthroughs in US, China human rights talks (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Chinese cycle past a poster displaying night view of capital city of Beijing, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. 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. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002.

US, China set 2011 rights meeting in "candid" talks (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. and Chinese officials agreed after two days of talks on human rights to start exchanges of legal experts and hold another rights dialogue in China next year, a State Department official said on Friday.

Venezuela, China's Haier signs business deals (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 03:23 PM PDT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) delivers a speech next to the Chinese ambassador to Venezuela, Zhau Rongxian, during a ceremony with a representative of Haier, China's top home appliance manufacturer, at the presidential palace Miraflores in Caracas. Haier signed a series of cooperation agreements on technology that include the construction of an industrial park.(AFP/Juan Barreto)AFP - Venezuela signed several agreements Friday with Chinese manufacturer Haier to construct an industrial complex and sell household appliances in the South American country.

China Yida profit 1st-quarter earnings soars (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:59 AM PDT

AP - China Yida Holding Co. reported a 43 percent jump in first-quarter earnings Friday, helped by better attendance at its Great Golden Lake resort and an increase in advertising revenue at its media properties.

China's Panchen Lama visits earthquake zone: state media (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:18 AM PDT

The Panchen Lama is pictured in 2009. China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader visited the country's earthquake zone Friday to hold prayer services for victims of the disaster, state media reported.(AFP/POOL/File/Eugene Hoshiko)AFP - China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan Buddhist leader visited the country's earthquake zone Friday to hold prayer services for victims of the disaster, state media reported.

China school attacks highlight mental health (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 08:33 AM PDT

An injured child holds a paper made bird while being transferred from intensive care unit to a room for further treatment at a hospital in Hanzhong, north China's Shaanxi Province Thursday, May 13, 2010. 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. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The signs of trouble should have been clear — the man who launched a deadly rampage through a Chinese kindergarten had been depressed and suicidal for weeks — but his behavior raised no red flags in China's feeble mental health system.

Markets sense another "window" for yuan reform (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2010 06:25 AM PDT

Chinese yuan notes are counted inside a bank in Taipei April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - Beijing could have another window of opportunity over the next few days to make its long-awaited move on the yuan, in the wake of strong Chinese data and ahead of a Sino-U.S. summit.

China sentences to death 4 robbers of old tombs (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 05:48 AM PDT

AP - China has sentenced to death four robbers who used explosives and heavy machinery to plunder tombs almost 2,500 years old.

Owens-Illinois in joint venture with Berli Jucker (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 05:23 AM PDT

AP - Glass packaging maker Owens-Illinois Inc. said Friday that it is teaming with a Thai company to buy four plants that make beverage and food containers in China and Southeast Asia.

China says foreign direct investment jumps (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 03:05 AM PDT

A crane is seen during construction work in Beijing. Foreign direct investment in China rose 11.3 percent on-year in the first four months of 2010, the government said, suggesting confidence in the world's third-largest economy continued to grow.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Foreign direct investment in China rose 11.3 percent on-year in the first four months of 2010, the government said Friday, suggesting confidence in the world's third-largest economy continued to grow.

Vietnam bans hotels from promoting 'China Beach' (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 02:40 AM PDT

AP - Charlie don't surf — at least not on "China Beach."

U.S., Taiwan researching new arms sales despite China (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2010 02:20 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. officials are studying new weapon sales to Taiwan despite near certain outrage from China, the island president told local media, a move that could further strain ties between the two superpowers.

US Transport Sec wraps up train tour in China (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 02:16 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, left in the vehicle, rides GM's EN-V concept car at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at the World Expo site Friday, May 14, 2010 in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took a spin in a General Motors Co. electric concept vehicle during a visit Friday to the World Expo in Shanghai, wrapping up an Asian trip that has focused heavily on high-speed trains.

China coal mine gas blast kills 21: media (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 01:25 AM PDT

Map locating Anshun in Guizhou province where twenty-one miners were killed in a gas blast on Thursday(AFP Graphic)AFP - Twenty-one miners have been killed in a gas blast at a colliery in southwest China, the official Xinhua news agency reported Friday, citing rescuers.

China's Wen says social tensions behind school killings (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2010 12:41 AM PDT

Children wait behind fence for their parents after school at a kindergarten in Tangying County, Henan province, May 13, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A spate of school killings in China has "deep-seated" roots in the country's social tensions that need addressing, Premier Wen Jiabao said.

Social problems at root of school attacks: China PM (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 11:01 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged improved efforts to address long-standing social concerns which he said were partially to blame for a string of deadly attacks on school children. AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged improved efforts to address long-standing social concerns which he said were partially to blame for a string of deadly attacks on school children.

1,100 arrested in Beijing crackdown on prostitution (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 10:51 PM PDT

Women are seen standing in the doorway of a neon-lit barber shop on a dark street in Beijing. Police in Beijing have arrested more than 1,100 suspects in connection with prostitution rings, many housed in high-end saunas and entertainment venues in China's capital, state press said Friday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Police in Beijing have arrested more than 1,100 suspects in connection with prostitution rings, many housed in high-end saunas and entertainment venues in China's capital, state press said Friday.

China's Xinjiang restores Internet services (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 10:44 PM PDT

Locals are seen at an internet cafe in Urumqi, in China's western Xinjiang Province. Authorities in restive Xinjiang region have restored access to Internet sites that were blocked after the eruption of deadly ethnic unrest in July 2009, according to the government.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have restored access to Internet sites that were blocked after the eruption of deadly ethnic unrest in July 2009, the government said Friday.

US engineer held in China released without charge (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 09:58 PM PDT

AP - An American engineer held in China for more than a year on accusations he misused trade secrets has been released, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Friday.

China scientists say cigarette butts protect steel (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2010 09:35 PM PDT

AP - Chinese scientists say they have found a way for the countless cigarette butts that are tossed every day on streets, beaches and other public places to be reused — in protecting steel pipes from rusting.

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