2010年6月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

At least 30 dead, 18 missing in south China rain, landslides (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 10:54 AM PDT

Villagers build a temporary dam at their field after a rain storm hit Laibin, south China's Guangxi province on June 1. At least 30 people have died and 18 are missing in southern China after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File)AFP - At least 30 people have died and 18 are missing in southern China after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding, state media said Wednesday.

Foxconn confirms another employee death (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 10:05 AM PDT

A worker inspects a motherboard on a factory line at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen. Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn on Wednesday confirmed the death of another employee but denied he died of exhaustion following a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants.(AFP/File/Voishmel)AFP - Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn on Wednesday confirmed the death of another employee but denied he died of exhaustion following a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants.

Tiananmen mothers fear history will die with them (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2008 file photo, Ding Zilin, co-founder of the Tiananmen Mothers, a group representing families of those who died in the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, stands in front of a shrine to her son, Jiang Jielian, at her apartment in Beijing. As the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China's capital approaches on Friday, June 4, 2010, the aging mothers of people killed say they fear history will die with them. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - The man was in his 80s and dying. The woman was 73 and held his hand. They each lost a son in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and fought for decades to get China to acknowledge the deaths.

New generation shakes China labor landscape (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 06:26 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.

China delays Gates trip in apparent snub for Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:38 AM PDT

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates listens during a press briefing on the new START nuclear arms reduction treaty at the White House in Washington, March 26, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - China has turned down a proposed fence-mending visit by the U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, during his trip in the region this week in what some American officials described as a snub to protest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Honda China parts plant restarts, walkout threatened (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:08 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 (7267.T) said a key car parts factory in south China resumed full production on Wednesday, ending more than two weeks of disruption after workers downed tools to demand higher wages in a high-profile and sometimes violent strike.

Chinese schools banned from charging security fees (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:00 AM PDT

AP - China has banned schools from charging fees for hiring guards and installing security systems to protect students from violence, after several deadly assaults at schools across the country.

He's battle to save China's classic architecture (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:11 AM PDT

Plans are in the pipeline to redevelop the streets surrounding Beijing's Drum and Bell Towers, which were used to tell the time from the 13th century Yuan dynasty until the 1920s. Since China embarked on economic reforms 30 years ago, many of the country's historic sites and districts have been forcibly demolished to make way for apartment blocks, office buildings and roads.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Every week, He Shuzhong receives dozens of phone calls, emails and letters from people across China warning him that another piece of ancient architecture is about to be bulldozed.

In new sign of trust, public Taiwan firms target China (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:49 AM PDT

A man picks up a bottle at an assembly line inside the Taiwan Beer factory in Jhunan, Miaoli County February 13, 2008. REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - Taiwan's publicly invested companies, worth about $100 billion to the central budget, have started selling to China in one of the strongest signs of trust between two governments after decades of hostilities.

'Tiananmen Mothers' demand China address crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:28 AM PDT

Students and people of Beijing gather 30 May 1989 in Tiananmen Square around the AFP - Families of those killed in the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on Wednesday demanded China end its silence and open a dialogue on the bloodshed.

Woman stabs nine in China train rampage: report (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:24 AM PDT

Photo illustration of a train in China. A woman armed with a knife went on the rampage on an overnight passenger train in northeastern China, stabbing and wounding nine people as they slept, state media reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A woman armed with a knife went on the rampage on an overnight passenger train in northeastern China, stabbing and wounding nine people as they slept, state media reported on Wednesday.

Taiwan's Foxconn boosts pay after worker suicides (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:53 PM PDT

A worker inspects a motherboard on a factory line at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen. The Taiwanese technology giant, battling to stem a spate of factory suicides in China, said Wednesday it was raising the pay of its Chinese assembly line workers by 30 percent.(AFP/File/Voishmel)AFP - Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn, battling to stem a spate of factory suicides in China, said Wednesday it was raising the pay of its Chinese assembly line workers by 30 percent.

Honda's China parts plant resumes full operations (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:50 PM PDT

Workers place an engine in a Honda Accord at an assembly plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The Japanese automaker has said its auto parts factory, hit by recent industrial action, has resumed full operations Wednesday after it offered a 24 percent pay rise to workers to end the crippling strike.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Japanese automaker Honda said its auto parts factory in southern China resumed full operations Wednesday after it offered a 24 percent pay rise to workers to end a crippling strike.

Honda says China factory back to work after strike (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:56 PM PDT

In this photo taken on May 26, 2010, employees at a Honda supply plant in Foshan gather near the factory gate during a strike in south China's Guangdong province. Honda Motor Co. says striking workers who have frozen production at its car plants in southern China have accepted a 24 percent wage increase, possibly allowing operations to resume this week. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Honda Motor Co. said a key parts factory in China resumed full operation Wednesday following a two-week strike over wages that forced Honda to halt production at four assembly plants.

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