2010年6月28日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China says 107 people trapped in a landslide (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:53 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers labor at the breach site of a dike at the Changkai section of the Fuhe River, in Fuzhou City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Floodwaters began receding in hard-hit southern China on Sunday and workers finished repairing the dike breach that forced the evacuation of 100,000 people. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Wu) ** NO SALES **AP - Hundreds of distraught villagers huddled in tents Tuesday as rescuers searched for family members buried after a landslide trapped at least 107 people in rain-hit southwestern China.


U.S. slaps duties on electric blankets from China (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:39 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States has slapped final duties ranging up to almost 175 percent on about $56 million of electric blankets from China because of unfair pricing, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday.

China's activist groups grow, even without official blessing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 12:52 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - SHANGHAI — Jin Ge used to be an idealist, unwilling to compromise and frustrated because of it. He felt as if he didn't belong in China. So 10 years ago he left for graduate school in the U.S.

China's AgBank on track for world IPO record (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:53 AM PDT

A branch of the Agricultural Bank of China is seen in northwest China's Qinghai province. Agricultural Bank of China is on track for the world's largest initial public offering after saying it planned to raise up to 10.1 billion dollars in the Shanghai portion of its share sale.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China is on track for the world's largest initial public offering after saying Monday it planned to raise up to 10.1 billion dollars in the Shanghai portion of its share sale.


BNY Mellon gets OK to launch Beijing branch (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo made Dec. 9, 2009, a sign for Bank of New York Mellon is shown in New York. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Monday, June 28, 2010, it has won clearance from Chinese regulators to open a BNY Mellon branch in Beijing to serve the U.S. bank's institutional clients.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Monday it has won clearance from Chinese regulators to open a BNY Mellon branch in Beijing to serve the U.S. bank's institutional clients.


'Slim' chance for 107 trapped in China landslide (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 08:53 AM PDT

Chinese residents float down a street on polystyrene boxes during heavy flooding in Fuzhou in China's Jiangxi province on June 27. Rescuers said that 107 people buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in southwest China had a AFP - Rescuers said Monday that 107 people buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in southwest China had a "slim" chance of survival, as the country battles a string of weather-related disasters.


Over 100 buried in southwest China landslide (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 08:40 AM PDT

Reuters - More than 100 people have been buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in China's southwest Guizhou province on Monday, state media said.

A prosperous lawyer aids China's migrant workers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 06:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Liu Pifeng is a wealthy man. The founder of a prosperous corporate law firm in this provincial capital, he drives the sort of black Chrysler sedan that proclaims personal success in China.

China's AgBank to raise up to $23.2 bln in IPO (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 06:31 AM PDT

A branch of the Agricultural Bank of China is seen in northwest China's Qinghai province. Agricultural Bank of China is on track for the world's largest initial public offering after saying it planned to raise up to 10.1 billion dollars in the Shanghai portion of its share sale.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China will raise up to 23.2 billion dollars in its highly-anticipated initial public offering, Dow Jones Newswires said Monday, making it the world's largest listing.


China slightly shifts yuan rate after G20 pressure (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:44 AM PDT

A sign for the Chinese currency, the yuan, is seen at a money changing facility in Hong Kong. China set its yuan exchange rate marginally higher following the Group of 20 summit, but analysts warned the shift was symbolic and did not presage a major revaluation of the currency.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China on Monday set its yuan exchange rate marginally higher following the Group of 20 summit, but analysts warned the shift was symbolic and did not presage a major revaluation of the currency.


Tree man faces charges in China: state media (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:06 PM PDT

A man in southwestern China who lived in a tree for more than three months to protest the planned demolition of his home is being tried for disturbing public order, state media said Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - A man in southwestern China who lived in a tree for more than three months to protest the planned demolition of his home is being tried for disturbing public order, state media said Monday.


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

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:01 PM 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.


Japan PM urges China to slam SKorea ship sinking (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 06:32 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said he asked Chinese President Hu Jintao in talks to condemn North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship.(AFP/File/Hong Jin-Hwan)AFP - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said he asked Chinese President Hu Jintao in talks to condemn North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship.


Obama says US expects rise in China's currency (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 06:16 PM 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 - President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States expects the value of China's currency to rise significantly. He vowed to closely monitor over the next several months how China follows through on a pledge to introduce more flexibility in the management its currency.


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