2010年6月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Hon Hai says to raise Foxconn worker wages 30 percent (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to raise workers' salaries by 30 percent at its Foxconn manufacturing hub in southern China, following a string of apparent suicides there.

China to subsidise purchases of green vehicles (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT

The Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is displayed during an auto show in January 2010. China said Tuesday it would subsidise purchases of alternative energy vehicles in five cities amid efforts to reduce emissions, save energy and spur the development of green technology.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bryan Mitchell)AFP - China said Tuesday it would subsidise purchases of alternative energy vehicles in five cities amid efforts to reduce emissions, save energy and spur the development of green technology.

New generation shakes China labor landscape (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:20 AM PDT

A Ssangyong Motor worker sits beside the company's assembly line, which has been stopped, at its factory in Pyeongtaek, about 70 km (40 miles) south of Seoul, in this January 12, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak/FilesReuters - In a reversal of the classic picket-line clash, Chinese workers at a Honda auto parts plant held out for higher wages this week while men in yellow caps from the government-backed union tried to end their strike.

Man shoots dead three judges in China court (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:46 AM PDT

A crowd gathers as police sealed off the courthouse in Yongzhou, central China's Hunan province. A bank security guard armed with a machine gun has opened fire in a central China court building, shooting three judges dead and wounding three others before killing himself, the government said.(AFP/Str)AFP - A bank guard angry over a legal ruling in his divorce opened fire in a China court building Tuesday, shooting three judges dead and wounding three others before killing himself, the local government said.

Old charge resurfaces against prominent Tibetan (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:07 AM PDT

Reuters - A leading Tibetan collector of antiquities has been in detention nearly five months, his lawyer said Tuesday, and faces charges dating back over a decade that critics fear may be politically motivated.

China economy slows on tightening and seasonal factors (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:14 AM PDT

Reuters - The pace of China's factory output eased last month as gradual policy tightening took a toll on new orders, suggesting to some economists that Beijing will take its time before nudging interest rates higher.

Man kills 3 judges, himself in China court (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:30 AM PDT

Police officers work outside a courthouse where a man shot dead three judges and killed himself in Yongzhou, in south China's Hunan province, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The man firing a small automatic weapon burst into the court office in central China on Tuesday, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three other people before killing himself, an official said. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a court office in central China on Tuesday, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three other people before killing himself, an official said.

Honda China production still out after strike and clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:51 AM PDT

Honda interim workers and workers (R) confront a group of people which claimed to be representatives of the workers union but were unrecognized by the workers at the front gate after the workers walked out for a strike from their plant manufacturing auto parts in Foshan at the southern Chinese Guangdong province May 31, 2010. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - Honda Motor Co made little progress on Tuesday in resuming production at a parts factory in south China after a prolonged and high-profile strike that has highlighted growing labor unrest in the region.

China boasts world's second-fastest supercomputer (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:48 AM PDT

A man uses a computer in Beijing. China's ambitions to become a major global power in the world of supercomputing were given a boost when one of its machines was ranked second-fastest in a survey.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's ambitions to become a major global power in the world of supercomputing were given a boost when one of its machines was ranked second-fastest in a survey.

China president urges greater child safety (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:43 AM PDT

A Chinese policewoman helps a schoolgirl cross a street outside an elementary school in Beijing. The country's president, Hu Jintao, has called on the entire nation to do more to ensure the safety of children, state press said Tuesday, in comments that follow a spate of grisly school killings.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has called on the entire nation to do more to ensure the safety of children, state press said Tuesday, in comments that follow a spate of grisly school killings.

Internet cafes close ahead of exams in China (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 11:35 PM PDT

AP - Teenagers tempted by computer games when they should be studying for the national college entrance exam this month won't have anywhere to escape to in central China, where Internet cafes have closed.

China bank adviser says property woes worse than US (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 11:35 PM PDT

Two residents make their way past a housing construction site in Hefei, central China's Anhui province on May 31, 2010. China's housing market problems are worse than those in the United States before the global downturn as they could stoke public discontent, a central bank adviser has warned.(AFP)AFP - China's housing market problems are worse than those in the United States before the global downturn as they could stoke public discontent, a central bank adviser has warned.

China's 'miracle' mine rescue to hit the big screen (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 10:39 PM PDT

The rescue of 115 workers from a flooded Chinese mine will be made into a film that will hit the screens in time for October's National Day, state media said. The film, provisionally titled AFP - The April rescue of 115 workers from a flooded Chinese mine will be made into a film that will hit the screens in time for October's National Day, state media said Tuesday.

Ford, Mazda recall more than 230,000 China cars (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 09:53 PM PDT

Ford and Mazda are recalling more than 230,000 vehicles made by their China joint venture to fix a software problem blamed for bouts of engine failure, China's product-safety watchdog said.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Ford and Mazda are recalling more than 230,000 vehicles made by their China joint venture to fix a software problem blamed for bouts of engine failure, China's product-safety watchdog said.

China's manufacturing activity slows in May (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 09:33 PM PDT

Chinese workers assemble cars at an auto plant in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. The country's manufacturing activity slowed in May, as the effects of government tightening measures to prevent the economy from overheating kicked in, official and independent surveys have shown.(AFP/File)AFP - China's manufacturing activity slowed in May, as the effects of government tightening measures to prevent the economy from overheating kicked in, official and independent surveys showed Tuesday.

China's Wen leaves Japan after meeting emperor (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 08:44 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (left) shakes hands with his Japanese counterpart Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo on May 31. Wen also met Japanese Emperor Akihito at the imperial palace on Tuesday as he wound up a three-day visit to Tokyo, officials have said.(AFP/Pool/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday left Japan after meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito at the imperial palace, ending a three-day visit to Tokyo, officials said.

China's shift away from cheap labor hard on all (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 06:55 PM 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 - Global manufacturers struggling with life-or-death pressures to control costs are finding that the legions of low-wage Chinese workers they rely on have limits.

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