2010年5月23日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


U.S. and China open talks to help steady economic ties (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 05:36 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, greets dignitaries upon arrival at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Clinton visited Beijing for high-level economic and strategic talks with Chinese leaders that will be dominated by efforts to win China's support to punish North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)Reuters - The United States and China open a high-level meeting on Monday intended to steady their vast and sometimes tense economic relationship, but North Korea threatened to emerge as a point of diplomatic contention.


China, US to launch talks with trade, North Korea in focus (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:11 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on commercial development at the Boeing Maintenance Facility at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai. The United States and China begin high-level talks in Beijing on Monday with the two sides hoping to build on a recent thaw even as they take up highly contentious trade and other issues.(AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb)AFP - The United States and China begin high-level talks in Beijing on Monday with the two sides hoping to build on a recent thaw even as they take up highly contentious trade and other issues.


Train derails in storm-hit east China, 10 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 09:43 AM PDT

Reuters - A passenger train in eastern China's Jiangxi province has derailed, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring 55, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

US official: At odds with China over NKorea, Iran (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 08:52 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, greets dignitaries upon arrival at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Clinton visited Beijing for high-level economic and strategic talks with Chinese leaders that will be dominated by efforts to win China's support to punish North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - The United States and China are still at odds about how to deal with North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship it has been blamed for, a senior U.S. official said Sunday. They also remain apart on the specifics on new U.N. sanctions to impose on Iran over its suspect nuclear program, the official said.


Train hits landslide, derails in China, killing 19 (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 08:12 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work at the site where a passenger train derailed in Dongxiang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 50 others, state television reported.  (AP Photo/Xinhua,Chen Chunyuan) ** NO SALES **AP - A passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 70 others, state media reported. The latest death toll jumped from initial reports of eight killed, as rescuers dug out more bodies from mangled and overturned train carriages, the official Xinhua News Agency said.


Nineteen killed in China train derailment (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:58 AM PDT

File photo shows an ambulance in China. At least 19 people have been killed and another 71 injured when a train derailed in a mountainous area of east China after a landslide damaged the tracks, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.(AFP/File)AFP - At least 19 people were killed and another 71 injured Sunday when a train derailed in a mountainous area of east China after a landslide damaged the tracks, the official Xinhua news agency reported.


Europe's woes to have small global impact: U.S. official (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Europe's financial crisis should have only minimal impact on the global recovery as governments put in place necessary policy counter-measures, a senior U.S. Treasury Department official said Sunday.

SKorea, China, Japan trade chiefs praise FTA study (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:28 AM PDT

AP - Trade ministers from China, Japan and South Korea on Sunday praised efforts to explore a potential joint free trade deal to boost commerce among three of Asia's biggest economies.

As Europe falters, China balks at revaluing yuan (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 11:59 PM PDT

China's Commerce minister Chen Deming addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Saleswoman Li Li stood in a booth at the Canton trade fair, surrounded by luggage decorated with floral, leopard and news headline prints like "credit crunch" and "economic disaster looms."


Truck-bus collision kills 32 in China (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 11:34 PM PDT

AP - A head-on collision between a truck and bus in northeastern China killed 32 people and injured another 24 early Sunday.

China road accident kills 32: state media (AFP)

Posted: 22 May 2010 09:04 PM PDT

At least 32 people have been killed after a truck and coach collided on an expressway in northeastern China, state-run Xinhua news agency has reported.(AFP/File/Olli Geibel)AFP - Thirty-two people were killed when a truck travelling in the wrong direction on an expressway collided head-on with a bus in northeastern China on Sunday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.


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