2010年7月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China: Yuan to be kept 'basically stable' (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 11:40 AM PDT

AP - China will keep its currency at a "basically stable and reasonable" level and financial pressure for the yuan to rise is easing due to Europe's debt woes, the country's foreign exchange regulator said Thursday.

Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT

An employee looks up while working along a production line at a garment factory in Huaibei, Anhui province July 8, 2010. The International Monetary Fund upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast on Thursday, citing robust expansion in Asia and renewed U.S. private demand, but warned the euro area's debt crisis posed a big risk to recovery. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's factory floor.

Catholic priest, nun murdered in China (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:24 AM PDT

Chinese police show school officials how to apprehend an attacker in Beijing. China has seen a number of attacks on young schoolchildren around the country since March 2010. A Catholic priest and a nun were murdered in northern China this week, but the motive was not immediately clear.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - A Catholic priest and a nun were murdered in northern China this week, but the motive was not immediately clear, police said on Thursday.

Floods in northwest China kill 25 (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:03 AM PDT

Map of China locating Qinghai province. Floods triggered by torrential rains in a remote part of northwestern China have killed 25 people.(AFP/Graphics)AFP - Floods triggered by torrential rain in a remote part of northwestern China have killed 25 people, local authorities said Thursday.

China launches global search for panda keepers (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:41 AM PDT

Panda keeper, Yang Gangkun, feeds apples to a panda at an animal sanctuary in southwest China. Yang gets up at 6:30 every morning to get to the base outside Chengdu, Sichuan's capital. Once there, he feeds the pandas, cleans their enclosures, and gets them to work out.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Yang Gangkun calls out to two pandas lying on their backs chewing bamboo. They push themselves up and slowly amble over for their morning workout in a breeding centre in southwest China.

Geely expects to close Volvo deal in third quarter (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 12:27 AM PDT

An employee of Chinese auto giant Geely is seen at one the firm's showrooms in Beijing. The car-maker said Thursday it expected to close its acquisition of Sweden's Volvo Cars in the third quarter following the European Commission's clearance of the takeover earlier this week.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China's Zhejiang Geely Holding said Thursday it expected to close its acquisition of Sweden's Volvo Cars in the third quarter after the European Commission cleared the takeover earlier this week.

Man attempts long swim down Yangtze (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:54 PM PDT

Bao Zhengbing, a 56-year-old Chinese man, begins a bid to swim 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) down the polluted Yangtze River to visit the Shanghai World Expo, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on July 7, 2010, to fulfil his childhood dream.(AFP)AFP - An 56-year-old Chinese man has begun a bid to swim 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) down the polluted Yangtze River to visit the World Expo in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.

Priest, nun in underground Chinese church killed (AP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:12 PM PDT

AP - A priest and nun who belonged to an unauthorized congregation in northern China were found slain in the hospice where they worked, a local priest said Thursday. Police have made no arrests.

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