2010年6月29日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Google tweaks China site in bid to keep license (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Reuters - Google Inc is tweaking its China website in a last-ditch effort to save its search business in the world's largest Internet market after butting heads with Beijing over Web censorship.

China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Anti-China demonstrators pack a street as they march, denouncing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) planned with China, Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. opposition supporters chanted anti-communist slogans as they marched in Taiwan's capital Saturday to protest a planned trade agreement with rival China that they say will undermine the island's self-rule and its economy. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - A historic trade deal between China and Taiwan will ease 60 years of hostility and push their economies closer than ever, the latest sign that Beijing's strategy of wooing the self-ruled island with carrots instead of sticks is paying off.


China struggles to find 106 still buried in landslide (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT

A Chinese soldier evacuates a boy from the landslide area in Guanling, southwest China's Guizhou province. Hundreds of rescuers struggled in treacherous conditions Tuesday to find 106 people buried in a landslide in southwest China, as the first victim's body was pulled out.(AFP)AFP - Hundreds of rescuers struggled in treacherous conditions Tuesday to find 106 people buried in a landslide in southwest China, as the first victim's body was pulled out.


China's AgBank confirms world-record IPO (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:00 AM PDT

A branch of the Agricultural Bank of China pictured in northwest China's Qinghai province. Agricultural Bank of China on Tuesday confirmed plans to raise a world-record 23.2 billion dollars in a dual initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China on Tuesday confirmed plans to raise a world-record 23.2 billion dollars in a dual initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai.


Google switches tack in China before license expires (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:57 AM PDT

Google on Tuesday changed tack in China to address government complaints about its attempts to evade censorship, as it vied to get its business licence renewed in the world's largest online market.(AFP/File)AFP - Google on Tuesday changed tack in China to address government complaints about its attempts to evade censorship, as it vied to get its business licence renewed in the world's largest online market.


China says can guarantee grip on Tibet "forever" (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:52 AM PDT

A Tibetan man rides a motorcycle at a square leading to the Tashihunpu monastery in the Shigatse Tibet Autonomous Region November 25, 2009. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - China can maintain its grip on Tibet "forever," a senior official said on Tuesday, but conceded that a heavy security presence was still needed to ensure order in Lhasa two years after deadly riots.


China's Agricultural Bank IPO may net $23 billion (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:31 AM PDT

Zhang Yun, vice chairman and president of the Agricultural Bank of China, speaks during a news conference on its initial public offering in Hong Kong Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The bank expects to reap up to US$23.2 billion in the world's largest share listing after capping the price range for its shares at a much lower level than originally expected. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Agricultural Bank of China capped the price range for its upcoming public offering at a level much lower than expected in response to investors, an executive said Tuesday, but the world's largest share listing is still projected to raise up to $23.2 billion.


Foxconn 'to move China Apple production' as costs rise (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:40 AM PDT

Chinese workers que for jobs at Foxconn's recruiting centre in Shenzhen, southern China's Guangdong province. Taiwan high-tech giant Foxconn plans to shift part of its production of Apple gadgets to other parts of the country as it faces rising labour costs, reports said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - Taiwan high-tech giant Foxconn plans to shift part of its production of Apple gadgets to other parts of the country as it faces rising labour costs, reports said Tuesday.


Foxconn plans China plant amid suicide scrutiny (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:05 AM PDT

AP - Foxconn Technology, a supplier to Apple Inc., looks ready to build a huge new factory in north-central China despite the company's own misgivings about city-sized manufacturing facilities after a spate of suicides among its young migrant work force.

Taiwan and China sign trade pact (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:35 AM PDT

Chen Yunlin (R), Chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), shakes hands with Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang during a cross strait meeting for the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA), in Chongqing June 29, 2010. Taiwan and China will formally sign a free trade-style agreement on June 29, the most significant between the two former political foes in 60 years and one that opens the way for a major boost to their around $100 billion in annual two-way trade. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - China and Taiwan signed a landmark trade deal on Tuesday that could boost trade already worth $100 billion and ease political ties between the export-reliant island and the world's third-largest economy.


China denies military exercise aimed at U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 02:50 AM PDT

Reuters - China denied on Tuesday media reports that an artillery drill in the East China Sea was in response to a planned military exercise between South Korea and the United States.

China to conduct live-fire sea drill this week (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:57 AM PDT

AP - China will start six days of live-fire drills off its eastern coast Wednesday amid plans for joint U.S.-Korea military exercises in the region.

China fends off Obama pressure over North Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:50 AM PDT

A North Korean soldier guards the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju June 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jacky ChenReuters - China on Tuesday rejected President Barack Obama's suggestion that it was hiding from the risks posed by North Korea, and said it felt the dangers on the divided Korean peninsula more deeply than Washington.


Google changes China access after Beijing objects (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2009 file photo, musician Jimmy Buffett performs at an event for the new Google Earth 5.0 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)AP - Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site after Beijing said the company would lose its mainland Internet license if the tactic continued.


Chinese tourists flock to Japan, lift weak economy (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT

In this March 25, 2010 photo, Chinese customers speak with a salesclerk who speaks Chinese as they buy a compact digital camera at Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district. For years, Japanese auto and electronics companies have been expanding in China as its economy boomed to offset slow growth at home. But now, Japan's languishing economy is getting a lift from hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists who are eager to flaunt their newfound wealth by purchasing brand name goods, from Canon digital cameras to Shiseido cosmetics. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Snapping up four Japanese luxury Seiko watches as if they were cheap chocolate souvenirs, a 36-year-old Chinese tourist plunks down $4,500 in cash at a glitzy store in downtown Tokyo.


China, US open disease study center in Shanghai (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:01 AM PDT

AP - American and Shanghai health authorities opened an epidemiology center in the Chinese city Tuesday to train experts in sleuthing out ways to prevent chronic and epidemic diseases.

European firms concerned over China regulations (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Workers produce mobile phone handsets at a factory in Shenzhen, southern China. European firms in China expect to face even tougher regulatory policies in the next two years, a survey released Tuesday showed, as fears mount that Beijing is trying to shut out overseas companies.(AFP/File)AFP - European firms in China expect to face even tougher regulatory policies in the next two years, a survey released Tuesday showed, as fears mount that Beijing is trying to shut out overseas companies.


China to stage live-fire military exercises (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:42 PM PDT

Chinese sailors are seen during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the communist takeover of the country. China will kick off six days of live-fire military exercises off its eastern coast later this week, state press has reported, amid plans for US-South Korean war games in the nearby Yellow Sea.(AFP/Pool/File/Guang Niu)AFP - China will kick off six days of live-fire military exercises off its eastern coast later this week, state press reported Tuesday, amid plans for US-South Korean war games in the nearby Yellow Sea.


EU firms wary of unpredictable China rules: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 08:09 PM PDT

Reuters - European firms remain optimistic about China's economic growth prospects, but are less confident about the near-term outlook for profits and are very concerned about regulatory unpredictability, according to a survey.
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