2010年5月28日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's Wen under pressure in Seoul over N.Korea (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 12:13 PM PDT

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (R) toasts with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) during a dinner at the presidential Blue House in Seoul. China will not protect those who sank a South Korean warship, Wen was quoted saying Friday, as he came under pressure in Seoul to join an international push to punish North Korea.(AFP/POOL/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - China will not protect those who sank a South Korean warship, Premier Wen Jiabao was quoted saying Friday, as he came under pressure in Seoul to join an international push to punish North Korea.


Director of China's Energy Programs to Deliver Keynote Address at SAE International Vehicle Battery Summit (PR Newswire)

Posted: 28 May 2010 11:30 AM PDT

PR Newswire - WARRENDALE, Pa., May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ouyang Minggao, Ph.D., director of China's Energy Saving & New Energy Vehicle Key Projects, will provide the keynote address at the SAE International Vehicle Battery Summit, scheduled 1-3 September 2010, in Shanghai, China.

Nokia, Sony join chorus of concern over China factory (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 09:23 AM PDT

A Foxconn employee reads a banner announcing a meeting to discuss a recent spate of suicides at the giant Foxconn plant in Shenzen, May 26. Nokia and Sony said Friday they were looking into conditions at a China factory run by Foxconn after a spate of worker suicides, joining technology giants Apple, HP and Dell.(AFP/File/Voishmel)AFP - Technology giants Nokia and Sony on Friday joined a chorus of concern over labour conditions at a vast assembly plant in China after yet another attempted suicide by a worker who slashed his wrists.


Taiwan activists protest against Foxconn parent (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 08:49 AM PDT

A labour activist stands behind banners reading AFP - Taiwan labour activists on Friday staged a protest against Foxconn, as the technology giant vowed to raise salaries amid a series of apparent suicides by workers at its plant in China.


Novozymes sees China's commercial cellulosic ethanol in 2013 (Reuters)

Posted: 28 May 2010 02:19 AM PDT

Reuters - The world's top industrial enzymes producer, Novozymes A/S, said on Friday that it expects China to launch its first commercial cellulosic ethanol facility by 2013.

Taiwan's Foxconn raising pay for workers (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 02:12 AM PDT

Members of a Taiwan labor group stage a rally outside Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese parent company of Foxconn, on Friday, May 28, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan, following  a series of suicide deaths of Foxconn employees in China. A Foxconn Technology worker tried to kill himself Thursday, becoming the 13th person to commit suicide or attempt to do so this year at the company, which makes high-tech products for industry giants such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, state media said. The banner in front bottom reads: 'What's the Price of the Human Body?' (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)AP - The Taiwanese electronics company buffeted by a spate of suicides at its China factories said Friday it will raise the pay of workers by an average of 20 percent.


China's support for euro sparks Asian markets rally (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2010 12:16 AM PDT

A trader is seen at the Hong Kong stock exchange. China's rebuttal of claims that it was reviewing its eurozone debt holdings prompted Asian markets to rally on Friday, lifting the euro and raising hopes the continent's debt crisis will not spread.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - China's rebuttal of claims it was reviewing its eurozone debt holdings prompted a rally in Asian markets on Friday, lifting hopes that Europe's debt crisis will not spread.


eBay enlists China and US post services to battle Taobao (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 11:55 PM PDT

US auction site eBay announced a partnership with China Post and the US Postal Service in its latest bid to re-establish itself in China, where the market is dominated by homegrown rival Taobao.com. Under the plan, eBay hopes to woo Chinese merchants by developing shipping programmes that make it easier for them to sell to US consumers, eBay said in a statement.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - US auction site eBay announced a partnership Friday with China Post and the US Postal Service in a new bid to re-establish itself in China, where the market is dominated by homegrown rival Taobao.com.


Hon Hai to raise China wages after spate of suicides (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:13 PM 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 - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to raise workers' salaries by about 20 percent at its Foxconn unit in China, as it struggles to stop a spate of worker suicides and quell rising public anger.


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