2010年7月2日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Lawmakers urge probe of Chinese steel investment (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:45 PM PDT

Reuters - A bipartisan group of 50 U.S. lawmakers called on Friday for an investigation into whether a Chinese investment in the U.S. steel sector posed a national security risk.

One year on, Amnesty urges inquiry into Urumqi violence (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:37 AM PDT

A woman walks past a road block in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in 2009. Amnesty International called on the Chinese government Friday to launch an independent inquiry into last year's ethnic violence in the Xinjiang region, ahead of the anniversary.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Amnesty International called on the Chinese government Friday to launch an independent inquiry into last year's ethnic violence in the China's Xinjiang region, ahead of the anniversary.

Bank of China to raise $8.9 bln in rights issue (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:26 AM PDT

A man walks past a branch of the Bank of China in Shanghai. Bank of China said Friday it plans to raise up to 8.9 billion dollars in a share rights issue in Shanghai and Hong Kong to strengthen its capital base.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Bank of China said Friday it plans to raise up to 8.9 billion dollars in a share rights issue in Shanghai and Hong Kong to strengthen its capital base.

After 60 days aloft tightrope walker breaks record (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Adili Wuxor walks a tightrope during the last day of his two-month tightrope walking performance on top of China's National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China, Friday, July 2, 2010. Adili, an Uighur ethnic Dawaz tightrope walking performer, has been walking the tightrope five hours a day on the top of the Bird's Nest over the past 60 days, setting a new Guinness World Record. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - China's "prince of tightrope walking" broke a world record Friday after spending several hours a day for two months gingerly crossing a wire above Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.

China says 2009 growth even faster than thought (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2009 file photo, a worker labors at a steel mill in a village of Jiangyin city, Jiangsu Province, China. China said Friday, July 2, 2010, its economy grew even faster in 2009 than previously reported amid concern the flood of stimulus spending and loans that drove its rebound left a dangerous glut of unneeded factories and other assets. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - China's economy grew even faster in 2009 than previously reported, adding to concern the flood of stimulus spending and loans that drove its rebound left a dangerous glut of unneeded factories and other assets.

China revises 2009 growth up to 9.1% (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:05 AM PDT

A saleswoman stands in front of a televisions displayed at a supermarket in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, in April 2010. China said on Friday its red-hot economy had expanded by 9.1 percent in 2009 in an upward revision that narrows the gap even further with the world's number two economy Japan.(AFP/File)AFP - China said on Friday its red-hot economy had expanded by 9.1 percent in 2009 in an upward revision that narrows the gap even further with the world's number two economy Japan.

GM says China sales overtake US for first time (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:19 AM PDT

AP - General Motors Co. says its first-half sales of vehicles in China overtook the U.S. for the first time amid a fitful recovery in American demand.

China installs 40,000 security cameras in Urumqi (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2009 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people look at vehicles destroyed in riots in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country's worst ethnic violence in decades. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Shen Qiao, File) ** NO SALES **AP - China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in the western region of Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.

Fear lingers in Tibet two years after riots (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Outward normality has returned to the thin air of Tibet's capital Lhasa. But, more than two years after ethnic violence erupted there, residents still talk of fear and suspicion.

40,000 cameras keep watch on China's Urumqi (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 11:04 PM PDT

Chinese paramilitary police on patrol in Urumqi, in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Police have installed 40,000 security cameras throughout the capital of China's Xinjiang region, state media said on Friday, as the city braces for the first anniversary of deadly ethnic violence.(AFP/File)AFP - Police have installed 40,000 security cameras throughout the capital of China's Xinjiang region, state media said on Friday, as the city braces for the first anniversary of deadly ethnic violence.

Eight trapped miners rescued in China (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 06:06 PM PDT

Photo illustration of Chinese coal miners. Eight coal miners who were trapped when their pit in northern China flooded this week were pulled out safely on Friday after 35 hours, state-run Xinhua news agency said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Eight coal miners who were trapped when their pit in northern China flooded this week were pulled out safely on Friday after 35 hours, state-run Xinhua news agency said.

CEO plays cool as Google search function blocked in China (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:19 PM PDT

A woman surfs the web on a laptop computer in Beijing. Google CEO Eric Schmidt downplayed fears over the Internet giant's position in China on Thursday, amid a row over censorship and the blocking of a search feature there.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Google CEO Eric Schmidt downplayed fears over the Internet giant's position in China on Thursday, amid a row over censorship and the blocking of a search feature there.

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