2010年7月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China renews Google's operating license (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010 file photo, a Chinese flag flutters outside Google's China headquarters in Beijing. Google on Friday, July 9, 2010 said Beijing has renewed the license it needs to continue operating a website in China, securing the search giant's foothold in the world's biggest Internet market despite tensions over censorship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - China confirmed Sunday it has renewed Google's license to operate in the world's most populous country, ending a monthslong standoff over Internet censorship.


Thousands evacuated in China as dam threatens to burst (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:48 AM PDT

A boy helps to drain water from his mother's store after a rainstorm hit Wuhan, Hubei province July 10, 2010. China's Hubei province saw seven people dead and three missing due to rain-triggered accidents, as well as economic losses of 1.09 billion yuan ($161 million), Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and the government has evacuated thousands of people from homes near an overfilled, leaking reservoir, officials and state media said.


China renews Google's operating license (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010 file photo, a Chinese flag flutters outside Google's China headquarters in Beijing. Google on Friday, July 9, 2010 said Beijing has renewed the license it needs to continue operating a website in China, securing the search giant's foothold in the world's biggest Internet market despite tensions over censorship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - China confirmed Sunday it has renewed Google's license to operate in the world's most populous country, ending a monthslong standoff over Internet censorship.


Chinese credit firm says US worse risk than China (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 02:50 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese firm that aims to compete with Western rating agencies declared Washington a worse credit risk than Beijing in its first report on government debt Sunday amid efforts by China to boost its influence in global markets.

Taiwan president promotes closer China ties (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 02:33 AM PDT

Ruling Nationalist Party lawmakers holding placards that read 'Passing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) will make Taiwan prosper,' as they prepare to approve the trade pact with China on the floor of the legislature, Friday, July 9, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. Lawmakers yesterday were shoving and punching each other in Taiwan's legislature after the speaker rejected an opposition bid to conduct a detailed debate on a contentious trade pact with China. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Taiwan's president urged his Chinese counterpart to work toward improving historically testy ties following the signing of a landmark trade deal.


China's foreign reserves rise to $2.45 trillion (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:50 AM PDT

AP - China's foreign reserves reached $2.45 trillion dollars by the end of June, a 15.1 percent increase year on year, the central bank said Sunday.

Taiwan's leader calls for closer ties with China (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:39 AM PDT

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has sent a message to China's President Hu Jintao, calling for closer ties following the historic trade pact signed by the two sides last month.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou Sunday sent a message to China's President Hu Jintao, calling for closer ties following the historic trade pact signed by the two sides last month.


China bank lending cools in June (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 12:28 AM PDT

A bank employee sounts out 100 Yuan notes in Beijing. Chinese banks have issued 603.4 billion yuan (89.1 billion dollars) in new loans in June, down from May, the country's central bank has said, as Beijing works to gradually cool the economy.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese banks issued 603.4 billion yuan (89.1 billion dollars) in new loans in June, down from May, the central bank said Sunday, as Beijing works to gradually cool the economy.


China demolishes Urumqi flashpoint area (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:49 PM PDT

Young Uighur women watch a line of riot police in the Uighur area of Urumqi city in China's Xinjiang region around the time of violent inter-ethnic riots in July, 2009. Chinese authorities are demolishing an area in the northwestern city, home to migrants they blame for disrupting social order, state media has said, a year after the deadly clashes.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese authorities are demolishing an area in the northwestern city of Urumqi, home to migrants they blame for disrupting social order, state media said Sunday, a year after deadly ethnic riots.


China's forex reserves hit new record (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:31 PM PDT

A woman walks past an advertisment in Beijing. China's foreign exchange reserves surged to a record 2.454 trillion dollars at the end of June, the country's central bank said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's foreign exchange reserves surged to a record 2.454 trillion dollars at the end of June, the central bank said on Sunday.


China's AgBank offers room for improvement (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:15 PM PDT

Tourists are seen outside a building housing the key Shanghai branch of the Agricultural Bank of China located on the historic Bund, in the coastal city. Heavy exposure to China's poverty-stricken interior has meant the bank's mission has been frustrated by decades of chaotic policies, leaving it awash with bad debt and with a reputation as the weakest of China's major state lenders.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China's huge share sale this week underscores investor confidence that the country's so-called economic miracle is set to continue.


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