2010年6月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


G20 drops China-sensitive plaudits on yuan reform (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

An employee counts yuan banknotes at a bank in Huaibei, Anhui province June 22, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - World leaders ditched plans to welcome Beijing's shift toward greater exchange rate flexibility at a G20 summit in Toronto on Sunday, highlighting China's sensitivity over the issue.


Obama: US looking for Chinese currency to rise (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the U.S. anticipates China's currency will rise significantly as market forces come to bear.

China's president fires back at currency critics (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:27 AM PDT

President Hu Jintao of China attends the opening plenary session of the G20 Summit in Toronto, Sunday June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao fired back Sunday at critics of his currency policy by warning that wildly fluctuating currency exchange rates can threaten financial markets.


China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:03 AM PDT

In this May 11, 2010 photo, a young couple walk back to their rented room after the day's work at Tang Jialing village where young educated Chinese crowd in shared rooms in Beijing, China. Rising living costs and low salaries have forced China's millions of post-80s graduates, dubbed the 'ant generation,' to crowd together in slums in China's largest cities. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - Liu Jun sleeps in a room so small, he shares a bed with two other men. It's all the scrawny computer engineering graduate can afford in a city so expensive that the average white-collar professional can't afford to buy a home.


Sodden China battles to repair flood defences (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 06:19 AM PDT

Chinese children play in the floodwaters in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi province on June 23. China is scrambing to repair water defences shattered by relentless rain, state media has said, after flood-related disasters claimed the lives of 235 people this month.(AFP/File)AFP - China scrambled Sunday to repair water defences shattered by relentless rain, state media said, after flood-related disasters claimed the lives of 235 people this month.


CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Reuters - World leaders agreed on Sunday to take different paths for cutting budget deficits and making their banking systems safer, a reflection of the uneven and fragile economic recovery in many countries. In a reversal from the unity of the past three crisis-era Group of 20 summits, the leaders left room to move at their own pace and adopt "differentiated and tailored" policies.

Floodwaters receding in hard-hit southern China (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:16 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 22, 2010,  a child and woman are evacuated on large styrofoam boxes through the flooded streets of Fuhe in China's Guangxi province.  The death toll from summer flooding across a wide swath of southern China climbed to 211 on Wednesday, as a river in Jiangxi province overflowed its banks but did not cause any additional casualties, authorities and state media said. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - Floodwaters began receding in hard-hit southern China on Sunday and workers finished repairing a dike breach that forced the evacuation of 100,000 people.


11 dead in China after bus plunges into ravine (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:56 AM PDT

AP - State media say an overloaded bus traveling to a funeral veered off a mountain road in northwestern China and plunged into a ravine, killing 11 people and injuring 31.

Eleven dead in China as bus accident (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 02:19 AM PDT

Vehicles travel along a highway in the Tian Shan mountain range in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. An overloaded bus taking mourners to a funeral veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in northern China, killing 11 people and injuring 31, state media has reported.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - An overloaded bus taking mourners to a funeral veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in northern China, killing 11 people and injuring 31, state media reported Sunday.


Exclusive: China rebuffs U.S. trade criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT

Reuters - China has dismissed U.S. comments that Beijing is blocking a new trade agreement, saying that it was the United States that was stalling progress in the World Trade Organization's long-running Doha round.

China firms shoot for the big leagues at World Cup (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:43 PM PDT

A young South African football supporter blows a vuvuzela at Nelson Mandela Bay stadium in Port Elizabeth. The buzzing horns, stadium seats and even the footballs on the field were made in China.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - China's national squad may have failed to qualify for the World Cup but Chinese companies have entered the sponsorship big leagues with sideline ads alongside Visa, McDonald's and Coca-Cola.


Obama invites China's Hu for state visit (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama (R) greets China's President Hu Jintao at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, in this April 12, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - President Barack Obama has invited Chinese President Hu Jintao for a state visit, a U.S. official said Saturday, as the two powers seek to narrow economic and political differences.


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