2010年7月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's AgBank on track for record IPO (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 12:01 AM PDT

Two men push their bicycles past a Shanghai branch of the Agricultural Bank of China on June 30, 2010. Agricultural Bank of China priced its Hong Kong share offering at 3.20 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents) a share, Dow Jones Newswires said Friday, possibly setting a new world IPO record.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China is on course for a record 22.1 billion US dollar initial public offering after pricing its Hong Kong shares, demonstrating continued investor confidence in China.


China finds more milk tainted with deadly melamine (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:48 PM PDT

File photo shows Chinese enforcement officers checking the dates on tins of milk powder in Tongzi, China's Guizhou region. Chinese authorities have seized 76 tonnes of milk powder tainted with the same chemical responsible for the deaths of six babies two years ago, state media said Friday.(AFP/File)AP - Chinese authorities have found dairy products in at least two provinces tainted with an industrial chemical that killed six babies and sickened thousands more in 2008, state media said Friday.


China's Huawei trying to make big push into US: report (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:28 PM PDT

A Huawei Technologies booth is seen during CommunicAsia 2010 conference and exhibtion show in Singapore in June. Chinese telecoms maker Huawei Technologies is trying to secure its first major deal in the United States despite concerns in Washington over its possible close ties to China's army, a report said Friday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Chinese telecoms maker Huawei Technologies is trying to secure its first major deal in the United States despite concerns in Washington over its possible close ties to China's army, a report said Friday.


Monk arrested in slayings of priest, nun in China (AP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:18 PM PDT

AP - A Catholic monk has confessed to killing a priest and a nun whose bodies were found at the hospice in northern China where they worked, state media said Friday.

China seizes melamine-tainted milk powder (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:03 PM PDT

File photo shows Chinese enforcement officers checking the dates on tins of milk powder in Tongzi, China's Guizhou region. Chinese authorities have seized 76 tonnes of milk powder tainted with the same chemical responsible for the deaths of six babies two years ago, state media said Friday.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese authorities have seized 76 tonnes of milk powder tainted with the same chemical responsible for the deaths of six babies two years ago, state media said Friday.


Google confident China will renew licence (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:02 PM PDT

A Chinese flag flies outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is confident that the firm's licence to operate in China, the world's largest Internet market, will be renewed, a report said Friday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Google CEO Eric Schmidt is confident that the firm's licence to operate in China, the world's largest Internet market, will be renewed, a report said Friday.


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

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:09 PM 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.


Twitter a key tool for China dissident writer (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:03 PM PDT

Yu Jie, a 36-year-old dissident writer in Beijing on July 5, 2010. China's secret police have warned Yu that he could end up in prison if he goes ahead with the publication of a book critical of Premier Wen Jiabao after he was interrogated for almost five hours by state security agents.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese dissident writer Yu Jie spends his days between two worlds: the spiritual, with the Bible to offer him guidance, and the virtual, with Twitter as the best way for him to get his message out.


Chinese farmer hits jackpot in land row (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:00 PM PDT

Chinese farmer Yang Youde fires a home-made cannon near his farmland on the outskirts of Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province on June 6, 2010. The farmer who fired improvised rockets to defend his home against eviction-minded property developers has had his pluck rewarded with a generous compensation offer, state media reported Friday.(AFP/File)AFP - A Chinese farmer who fired improvised rockets to defend his home against eviction-minded property developers has had his pluck rewarded with a generous compensation offer, state media reported Friday.


China's AgBank prices Hong Kong shares (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 06:38 PM PDT

Two men push their bicycles past a Shanghai branch of the Agricultural Bank of China on June 30, 2010. Agricultural Bank of China priced its Hong Kong share offering at 3.20 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents) a share, Dow Jones Newswires said Friday, possibly setting a new world IPO record.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China priced its Hong Kong share offering at 3.20 Hong Kong dollars (41 cents) a share, a company spokesman said Friday, possibly setting a new world IPO record.


China finds fresh trade in toxic milk powder: report (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Chinese authorities have seized 38 tons of milk powder laced with a toxic additive that killed children and sparked a nationwide uproar in 2008, official media reported, underscoring the stubbornness of food safety failings.

U.S. gives China pass on currency (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:08 PM PDT

An employee counts yuan banknotes at a bank in Huaibei, Anhui province June 28, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - The Obama administration declined to label China a currency manipulator in a long-delayed report on Thursday, spurring fresh calls from U.S. lawmakers for tough new steps to pressure Beijing.


Treasury won't cite China on currency: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 01:56 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department has decided not to label China a currency manipulator in a semi-annual currency report to be released on Thursday afternoon, sources familiar with the decision said.
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