2010年5月27日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China remains good buy-in case, says BlackRock (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:41 AM PDT

Reuters - Cheap stocks and robust consumption by its middle class are reason to buy into China now, even though markets have turned cautious on the world's No.3 economy, a fund manager at BlackRock told Reuters.

Dell, HP look into suicides at Foxconn China plant (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 06:19 AM PDT

A worker inspects motherboards at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen on May 26. Computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard said they are looking into conditions at a Chinese factory owned by a Taiwanese supplier following the deaths of 11 workers in apparent suicides.(AFP/Voishmel)AFP - Computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard said Thursday they were looking into conditions at a Chinese factory owned by the Taiwanese supplier Foxconn, as state media reported another attempted suicide.


Another death at China iPhone maker's plant (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2010 06:10 AM PDT

Apple iPhone 3G. Retail giant Wal-Mart on Tuesday more than halved the price of the 16-gigabyte iPhone 3G in a sign that shelves are being cleared for a hot new model to be unveiled by Apple.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)Reuters - A 10th employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late Wednesday, just hours after the company's chairman promised to make life better for employees at the sprawling production site in southern China.


Foxconn employee attempts suicide: Chinese media (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:47 AM PDT

The Foxconn plant in Shenzen, southern China. Another employee of Apple-linked Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn has attempted to commit suicide by slashing his veins, Chinese state media said, following 11 self-inflicted deaths this year.(AFP/Voishmel)AFP - Another employee of Apple-linked Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn attempted to commit suicide Thursday by slashing his veins, Chinese state media said, following 11 self-inflicted deaths this year.


Indian president makes rare state visit to China (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:52 AM PDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao, right, shows the way to India's President Pratibha Patil during a meeting at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Petar Kujundzic, Pool)AP - Indian President Pratibha Patil sought to soothe trade disputes and recent border tensions in meetings Thursday with Chinese leaders in Beijing.


Strike stalls production at Honda's China plants (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:44 AM PDT

AP - Honda's four auto assembly plants in China have ground to a halt after workers at a parts maker went on strike demanding better wages.

2 get death sentences in China mine murder scam (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:39 AM PDT

AP - Two people in China have been given suspended death sentences for pushing a mentally ill man into a coal mine shaft and then posing as his family members to get compensation for his death, a court said Thursday. Two others received 15 years in prison.

China says Europe key market (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Europe remains a key investment market for China's foreign exchange reserves, the Chinese central bank said on Thursday, helping to soothe markets unnerved by a report that it was reviewing its euro-zone bond holdings.

Rats damage huge swathes of China's grasslands (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 02:35 AM PDT

A plague of rats has gobbled up vast swathes of grasslands in north China, sparking a mass extermination drive amid concerns for herders.(AFP/File)AFP - A plague of rats has gobbled up vast swathes of grasslands in north China, sparking a mass extermination drive amid concerns for herders, state media said Thursday.


Dell, HP looking into suicides at Foxconn China plant (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 02:33 AM PDT

A worker inspects motherboards at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen on May 26. Computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard said they are looking into conditions at a Chinese factory owned by a Taiwanese supplier following the deaths of 11 workers in apparent suicides.(AFP/Voishmel)AFP - Computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard said Thursday they were looking into conditions at a Chinese factory owned by a Taiwanese supplier following the deaths of 11 workers in apparent suicides.


China not assigning blame in South Korea sinking (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 01:26 AM PDT

AP - China offered no indication Thursday of plans to join the U.S. and its allies in blaming North Korea in the sinking of a South Korean warship, saying the issue remained "extremely complicated."

China's anti-bubble moves turn bull market bearish (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 12:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2010 file photo, the new charging bull statue which is similar to a version in New York City, made by Italian-American artist Arturo Di Modica, which sits near Wall Street,  is unveiled on the Bund in Shanghai China.  After two years of more or less standing firm while markets elsewhere floundered, China's share markets are feeling some pain of their own, as investors react to policies aimed at cooling surging housing prices, and to growing uncertainties over how big, bad and messy the fallout will be from the European financial crisis. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - Shanghai has Wall Street-size ambitions for its financial markets, and this month, it got a charging bronze bull to match those aspirations. Symbolically, the timing was a tad off.


Strike halts Honda's production in China (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 09:47 PM PDT

This file photo shows a Honda assembly plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Honda Motor said Thursday production at all four of its vehicle manufacturing plants in China had halted after workers at an auto parts factory went on strike.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Japan's Honda Motor said Thursday production at all four of its vehicle manufacturing plants in China had halted after workers at an auto parts factory went on strike.


Tibetan gets suspended death sentence for riots (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 09:33 PM PDT

AP - A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an overseas Tibetan rights group said.
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