2010年7月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:26 AM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO SOME POINTS ** ADDS NEW INFO, CORRECTS NAME ORDER ** FILE - In this file photo released by David Rowley, taken Dec. 7, 1993 and made available Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, Xue Feng poses for photos in Yuexi, Anhui province. American geologist Xue Feng detained and tortured by China's state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for 8 years Monday July 5, 2010, in a troubling example of China's rough justice system and the way the U.S. government handles cases against its citizens. (AP Photo/David Rowley, File)AP - An American geologist held by Chinese state security agents who stubbed lit cigarettes on his arms was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on China's oil industry — a case that highlights the government's use of vague secrets laws to restrict business information.

China shares hit 15-month low on economy worries (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:39 AM PDT

AP - Chinese shares fell to a 15-month low Monday on fears of the country's economic slowdown, led by resources.

Police detain China writer over upcoming book (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:21 AM PDT

AP - A best-selling author who is a fierce critic of the Communist Party said he was taken into custody by police Monday and threatened with a stiff prison term if he goes ahead with plans to publish a book critical of Premier Wen Jiabao.

China convicts U.S. geologist of stealing state secrets (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:35 AM PDT

Reuters - A geologist accused of stealing state secrets after he brokered the sale of an oil database has been sentenced to eight years in jail, the U.S. embassy said on Monday, over two-and-one-half years after he was detained.

US geologist jailed for eight years in China (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:31 AM PDT

A worker takes a break beneath the natural gas storage tanks at an exploration site in the Longgang gas field in Lishan, southwest China's Sichuan province, in 2007. A US geologist was sentenced to eight years in jail in China on Monday on state secrets charges related to the sale of a database about China's oil industry, a US official and a rights group said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - A US geologist was sentenced to eight years in jail in China on Monday on state secrets charges related to the sale of a database about China's oil industry, a US official and a rights group said.

Riot anniversary in China passes off peacefully (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:28 AM PDT

In this Saturday, July 3, 2010 photo, policemen take part in a daily training at a police station in Urumqi, in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Monday as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang as part of stringent security controls Monday on the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades. Despite tensions, there was no apparent sign of unrest.

China's Ansteel assessing US protest over plant deal: report (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:18 AM PDT

A Chinese worker walks on steel rods at a construction site in Shanghai in 2009. China's Anshan Iron and Steel Group is looking into a protest by American lawmakers against its deal to build steel plants in the United States, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - China's Anshan Iron and Steel Group is looking into a protest by American lawmakers against its deal to build steel plants in the United States, a report said Monday.

China deploys troops for Xinjiang riot anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:44 AM PDT

Indigenous Uighur women pass a Chinese paramilatary police on patrol in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region. Security forces have fanned out to keep the city in check on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the far-western province.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Security forces fanned out to keep China's Urumqi city in check on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the far-western Xinjiang region.

Far west China tense but quiet year after riots (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 01:01 AM PDT

An ethnic Uighur special police patrols on a street in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 2, 2010. Picture taken July 2, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - Chinese security forces kept a wary watch on Monday on a far-western city that erupted in deadly ethnic violence a year ago, flooding the streets with paramilitary police, some armed and others in riot gear.

Special Report: China's new migrant workers pushing the line (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 10:48 PM PDT

A worker is seen inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province May 26, 2010. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - After a morning of confrontation with his bosses at an auto parts factory in southern China, Wei took a different route home to avoid the plain-clothes police tailing him.

State media: Bus fire in central China kills 24 (AP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 09:58 PM PDT

** CORRECTS DATE ** In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a policeman checks on the wreckage of a shuttle bus in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu province, on Monday July 5, 2010. Twenty-four people were killed and 19 others injured after fire engulfed a steel company's shuttle bus Sunday night in Wuxi city, Xinhua reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Cheng Binghong) ** NO SALES **AP - A fire on a shuttle bus carrying steel factory workers in central China killed 24 people and injured 19, state media reported Monday.

Lenovo says Apple missing huge opportunities in China (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 09:15 PM PDT

The founder of Chinese IT giant Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi, said in an interview published Monday that Apple is missing huge opportunities in the world's most populous nation because it does not understand mainland consumers.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - The founder of Chinese IT giant Lenovo said in an interview published Monday that Apple is missing huge opportunities in the world's most populous nation because it does not understand mainland consumers.

China curbs off-balance sheet trust lending: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 08:28 PM PDT

Reuters - China's banking regulator has ordered trust companies to halt the launch of wealth-management products via banks, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

Carbon monoxide kills nine miners in China (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 08:23 PM PDT

A paramilitary policeman stands guard at the entrance to a coal mine where scores of miners were killed. Nine miners died from carbon monoxide poisoning over the weekend at a colliery in central China, state media reported Monday, in the latest accident to plague the notoriously dangerous industry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Nine miners died from carbon monoxide poisoning over the weekend at a colliery in central China, state media reported Monday, in the latest accident to plague the notoriously dangerous industry.

24 dead in China shuttle bus fire: govt (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 07:22 PM PDT

A city bus departs from a stop in Beijing. Twenty-four people were killed and 19 others injured after fire engulfed a Chinese steel company's shuttle bus, state media reported on Monday.(AFP/File/Olli Geibel)AFP - Twenty-four people were killed and 19 others injured in a fire aboard a steel company's shuttle bus in eastern China at the weekend, a local official said Monday.

Job discrimination riles China's Uighurs (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 06:51 PM PDT

An ethnic Uighur man passes a Chinese paramilitary police patrol in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region. Many of the indigenous ethnic Uighurs in the province complain about what they say is a job market openly skewed against them, with many of the better-paid professional and technical jobs going to members of the country's Han Chinese majority.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Tursun's eyes well up as she describes life as a Uighur in China, which she says is marred by overt discrimination in the job market -- a source of much bitterness in the restive city of Urumqi.

Fire kills 24 aboard China steel company bus (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 06:47 PM PDT

Reuters - Twenty-four people died on board a steel company bus that erupted in flames in eastern China, state media reported on Monday.

Some "hot money" flowing to China: official (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2010 05:48 PM PDT

Reuters - China's high economic growth and expectations of a stronger yuan are luring global speculative funds into its stock and property markets, a senior foreign exchange regulator said in remarks published on Monday.

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