2010年5月25日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China and U.S. each claim gains on yuan in talks (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Reuters - China will chart its own course on currency reform, top officials from Beijing and Washington said on Tuesday at the end of talks that both agreed had aired plenty of disputes while leaving any answers for later.

China, US make progress on economy, agree to work on N.Korea (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 10:41 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a speech at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The United States and China Tuesday wrapped up two days of key talks on a positive note, with Washington signalling progress on economic issues and Beijing agreeing to work to bring North Korea to heel.(AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb)AFP - The United States and China Tuesday wrapped up two days of key talks on a positive note, with Washington signalling progress on economic issues and Beijing agreeing to work to bring North Korea to heel.

US cites progress on trade, China stands firm on yuan (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 10:35 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a speech at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The United States and China have signalled progress in their pivotal relationship at high-profile annual talks after months of tension, but no major breakthrough on fractious economic disputes.(AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb)AFP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said China had addressed some US trade complaints but acknowledged lingering concerns as two days of talks closed Monday with no apparent breakthrough on the yuan.

China cool to US calls for action against NKorea (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 06:21 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks before signing an agreement at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Tuesday May 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Saul LOEB, Pool)AP - China responded coolly Tuesday to U.S. calls for it to support international action against North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean warship, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called stability on the Korean peninsula a "shared responsibility" of Beijing and Washington.

Geithner praises China commitment on currency reform (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:50 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday welcomed a pledge by China's top leaders to pursue currency reform as part of a broader agenda aimed at boosting domestic consumption and helping rebalance global growth.

Geithner tells China that US learned from crisis (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:09 AM PDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Strategic Economic Dialogue with his Chinese counterpart at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday, May 24, 2010, next to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernake. China pressed the United States at the high-level dialogue Monday to end export curbs on 'dual use' technology with possible military applications. (AP Photo/Frederic J. Brown, Pool)AP - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Washington is getting its deficits under control and called on China to keep technology markets open in a visit Tuesday to a school for future Communist Party leaders.

Clinton turns on charm in China (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 02:57 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks before signing an agreement at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Tuesday May 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Saul LOEB, Pool)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton tolerates but doesn't share her husband's appetite for violent action movies. Her daughter's upcoming wedding is "the most important" thing in her life. And she thinks Timothy Geithner has great hair.

Another Foxconn employee dies in China: media (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:39 AM PDT

Protestors from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) burn effigies of Apple products during a demonstration near the offices of Foxconn in Hong Kong. Hong Kong labour activists said Tuesday they plan to kick off a worldwide boycott of Apple's newest iPhone after a spate of suicides at a southern Chinese factory that makes the iconic device.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - A 19-year-old employee of Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn fell to his death Tuesday at the company's plant in southern China -- the 10th such death this year, state media reported.

China, US agree to boost student exchanges (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:04 AM PDT

China's President Hu Jintao gives a speech at Yale University in the US. China and the United States have launched an initiative aimed at allowing 100,000 Americans to study in China over the next four years and boosting other AFP - China and the United States on Tuesday launched an initiative aimed at allowing 100,000 Americans to study in China over the next four years and boosting other "people-to-people" exchanges.

Geithner offers China vow of greater fiscal discipline (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told future Chinese leaders that the Obama Administration will cut its budget deficit once it is sure the economy is safely growing.

Foxconn worker dies in China; 10th in a year (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:01 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Feb 24, 2010, a recruiter from Foxconn talks to job applicants outside the factory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, May 25, 2010, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones.

Clinton says China wise to buy U.S. debt instruments (Reuters)

Posted: 24 May 2010 10:21 PM PDT

Reuters - China has made a "wise" choice by buying United States debt instruments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday in Beijing, where senior officials from both powers are meeting for two days of talks.

US admiral critiques military ties with China (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 10:00 PM PDT

AP - The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Tuesday that military ties with China are lagging behind the two countries' other dealings in maturity and sophistication.

Floods kill 115 in southern China (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 09:19 PM PDT

AP - A torrent of floods caused by heavy storms have killed 115 people in southern China, with 21 people still missing as weather reports show rains beginning to subside.

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