2010年7月6日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China's AgBank raises $19.23 billion in IPO (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:19 PM PDT

AP - NEW YORK — The Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering has raised more than $19 billion in what could turn out to be the largest IPO ever.

U.S. calls on China to release jailed geologist (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:03 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States on Tuesday called on China to release a U.S. geologist jailed on charges of stealing state secrets, but Beijing said other countries had no right to interfere in what it called an internal affair.

China's biggest bank coming to Canada (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Customers leave a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in Beijing in 2009. ICBC, the world's largest bank by market capitalization, announced on Tuesday it was opening branches in Canada.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest bank by market capitalization, announced on Tuesday it was opening branches in Canada.


US urges China to free geologist 'immediately' (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT

The sun rises over the Tazhong oilfield in China's Xinjiang region.The United States on Tuesday called on China to free a US geologist AFP - The United States on Tuesday called on China to free a US geologist "immediately" and said it was "extremely concerned" by his eight-year sentence on state secrets charges.


Steel firm says Chinese investment not a risk (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 11:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Steel company Steel Development on Tuesday dismissed concerns raised by lawmakers over an investment from China's state-owned Anshan Iron and Steel Group in one of its steel mills.

China's AgBank prices IPO to be world's largest (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:36 AM PDT

A potential investor collects application forms and a Agricultural Bank of China prospectus during its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong June 30, 2010. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - Agricultural Bank of China priced its Hong Kong and Shanghai dual listing on Tuesday, a deal that would break all IPO records by raising more than $22 billion when adding in over-allotment shares.


AgBank prices Hong Kong IPO lower than expected (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:23 AM PDT

Customers wait to use the automated teller machine (ATM) at a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Beijing. Agricultural Bank of China has priced the Hong Kong portion of its massive stock sale at 3.20 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents) per share, below the top end of its expected range.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China has priced the Hong Kong portion of its massive stock sale at 3.20 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents) per share, below the top end of its expected range.


China commentary slams U.S. for steel suspicions (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:30 AM PDT

Reuters - China's official Xinhua news agency on Tuesday criticized a group of 50 U.S. lawmakers for calling for a probe into Chinese investment in the U.S. steel sector, saying protectionism was rearing its ugly head again.

Ford reports record first-half China sales (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:14 AM PDT

AP - Ford Motor Co. sold a record 301,524 vehicles in China during the first six months of the year, up 53 percent from the same period in 2009, the company said.

Five murdered in revenge attack in China (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Map locating Henan province in central China. A disgruntled man in the village of Shangboshu village has confessed to stabbing to death five people, including a baby, in the latest grisly knife attack to strike the nation.(AFP)AFP - A disgruntled man in central China has confessed to stabbing to death five people, including a baby, in the latest grisly knife attack to strike the nation, state media said on Tuesday.


Panda in Chinese zoo accidentally crushes its cub (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:24 AM PDT

AP - A panda at the Beijing Zoo accidentally crushed her new cub to death after abandoning its twin, Chinese state media said Tuesday.

China denounces new unilateral U.S. sanctions on Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:14 AM PDT

Reuters - China denounced the United States on Tuesday for imposing its own sanctions on Iran, saying Washington should not unilaterally take such steps outside of U.N. resolutions.

5 killed in stabbing spree in China, reports says (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:02 AM PDT

AP - A village head and four of his family members were killed in China's latest stabbing spree, state media reported Tuesday. Among the victims was a 5-month-old baby.

China rejects criticism of US geologist's sentence (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:34 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 - China on Tuesday rejected U.S. criticism of its treatment of an American geologist who was sentenced to eight years in prison for spying and collecting state secrets.


China objects to US sanctions against Iran (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:31 AM PDT

File picture shows UN Security Council members voting on broader sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program at UN headquarters June 9. A top Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday that Tehran could stop refining uranium to 20 percent purity level, the most controversial part of its atomic programme, if it gets nuclear fuel required for a research reactor(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - China said Tuesday that the United States and other countries should not expand on the latest U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.


Disney may start Shanghai park work in Nov: report (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:03 PM PDT

Disney products are seen for sale at a flagship store in Shanghai. The US entertainments giant could start building its planned theme park in Shanghai as early as November, a year after Chinese authorities gave the green light for the project, China Business News reported.(AFP/File)AFP - Disney could start building its planned theme park in Shanghai as early as November, a year after Chinese authorities gave the green light for the project, a report said Tuesday.


China may strip sovereign wealth fund of bank stakes (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:38 PM PDT

China is considering stripping the country's 300-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund of banking stakes to help it get around some US investment restrictions, a report said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - China is considering stripping the country's 300-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund of banking stakes to help it get around some US investment restrictions, a report said Tuesday.


Web blocks remain one year on for China's Uighurs (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:19 PM PDT

Chinese paramilitary police stand guard in July 2009 outside the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur area of Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities cut off the web in the remote western province following deadly ethnic clashes between mainly indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese migrants that erupted a year ago leaving nearly 200 people dead.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - For Ruzmammat, the Internet is a crucial way of keeping in touch with his Uighur friends in China's Xinjiang region -- a lifeline that was denied to him for 10 months following deadly ethnic riots.


Ex-IMF economist Rogoff gloomy on China property (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 06:50 PM PDT

Reuters - China's property market is beginning a collapse that will hit the banking system, Harvard University economics Kenneth Rogoff told Bloomberg Television.
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