2010年7月15日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China


US mom in China to find marrow donor for daughter (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 09:26 AM PDT

In this photo taken July 2, 2010, Katie Cramer rests in her bed at the Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center where she suffers from acute myleoid leukemia in Roseville, Calif. Her mother Sherrie is in China searching for a donor match. Katie was born in China and adopted in 1996. (AP Photo/Robert Durell)AP - Sherrie Cramer breaks into stifled sobs as she nears the dirt-streaked former orphanage in China where her daughter lived as a severely malnourished infant.


China's growth slows in second quarter (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 09:17 AM PDT

Chinese workers perch on scaffolding at a construction site in Hefei, central China's Anhui province. China said Thursday its economic growth had slowed in the second quarter, as massive stimulus spending was scaled back and moves to rein in soaring property prices started to bite.(AFP/File)AFP - China said Thursday its economic growth had slowed in the second quarter, as massive stimulus spending was scaled back and moves to rein in soaring property prices started to bite.


China seizes eight tonnes of endangered pangolins (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 09:05 AM PDT

An endangered smuggled pangolin found in 2005. Chinese customs said they have seized nearly eight tonnes of frozen pangolins -- an endangered species of scaly anteater -- from a fishing boat off the southern coast.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Chinese customs said they have seized nearly eight tonnes of frozen pangolins -- an endangered species of scaly anteater -- from a fishing boat off the southern coast.


New strike hits Honda parts supplier in China (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 06:16 AM PDT

Atsumitec Co. plant is seen in Foshan, southern Chinese Guangdong province July 15, 2010. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - A strike has broken out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan's Honda Motor, the latest in a string of stoppages by Chinese workers demanding a bigger piece of the country's economic wealth.


China to keep managed floating exchange rate regime (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 05:35 AM PDT

A hotel employee at a foreign exchange counts yuan bills in Beijing in 2007. China will maintain a managed floating yuan exchange rate regime, the country's central bank said Thursday, asserting that such a policy was in the nation's long-term interests.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - China will maintain a managed floating yuan exchange rate regime, the country's central bank said Thursday, asserting that such a policy was in the nation's long-term interests.


China's economic growth slows amid credit curbs (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 03:38 AM PDT

Workers clean off chewed gum from the pavement near an advertisement at a commercial street in downtown Beijing, China, Thursday, July 15, 2010. China's rapid growth is slowing as the impact of its huge stimulus fades and Beijing clamps down on a credit boom. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - China's rapid growth is slowing as its huge stimulus winds down and Beijing cools a credit boom, possibly weakening a global recovery.


China economy cools in second quarter (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:45 AM PDT

Reuters - China's economy cooled in the second quarter, a slowdown that is likely to extend over the rest of the year as Beijing steers monetary and fiscal policy back to normal after a record credit surge to counter the global crisis.

China says passenger set bus fire that killed 24 (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:27 AM PDT

AP - An angry Chinese steel worker started the shuttle bus fire that killed 24 people and injured 19 near Shanghai earlier this month, state media reported Thursday.

China's microblogs facing new restrictions (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:20 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 14, 2010, a Chinese man uses a computer at an Internet cafe in Beijing, China. China's Twitter-like microblogs are facing new threats of censorship. The country's top microblogs either are down for maintenance or now display a 'beta' tag to indicate they are in a testing phase, though they have been operating for months.  (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China's Twitter-like websites are facing new threats of censorship.


China merges steelmakers to create top 10 producer (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:25 AM PDT

Chinese workers are seen at a steel mill in central China's Anhui province. China has launched a new steel group this week after merging four companies amid efforts to eliminate excess capacity, slash carbon emissions and strengthen the nation's position in iron ore price talks.(AFP/File)AFP - China launched a new steel group this week after merging four companies amid efforts to eliminate excess capacity, slash carbon emissions and strengthen the nation's position in iron ore price talks.


Bomb scare forces emergency landing in west China (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:38 PM PDT

AP - A commercial jet flying from a western China region wracked by ethnic tensions made an emergency landing after receiving a bomb threat that turned out to be fake, a police official and state media said Thursday.

AgBank makes lacklustre China debut (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:23 PM PDT

People walk past advertising for Agricultural Bank of China in Hong Kong. Agricultural Bank of China's shares were set to start trading in Hong Kong Friday, one day after the bank's mammoth initial public offering drew a tepid investor response in its Shanghai debut.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China made a lacklustre stock market debut in Shanghai Thursday, with its shares rising only slightly, in what is still shaping up to be the world's largest initial public offering.


China faces worst floods in 12 years (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:58 PM PDT

Residents make their way along a flooded street in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on July 13, 2010. According to the civil affairs ministry, 118 people have died in floods that have hit the southern half of China since the beginning of July, and another 47 are still missing.(AFP/File)AFP - China could be facing the worst floods in more than a decade if rains continue to drench the Yangtze river region, an official said Thursday, as a major tropical storm threatens the southern coast.


China jet makes emergency landing after bomb scare (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:49 PM PDT

Passengers disembark from an airplane in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. A passenger jet flying from the capital of the restive province to the south of the country was forced to make an emergency landing after an apparent bomb threat, state media said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A passenger jet flying from China's restive Xinjiang region to the country's south was forced to make an emergency landing after a bomb scare that turned out to be a hoax, state media said Thursday.


China's economy slows moderately (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 07:49 PM PDT

Reuters - China's economy slowed in the second quarter as the government steered monetary and fiscal policy back to normal after a record credit surge last year to counter the global crisis.

China's economy grows 11.1 percent in first half (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 07:19 PM PDT

A container ship is seen at the Yangshan container port in Shanghai. China said Thursday its economic growth slowed in the second quarter, as massive stimulus spending was scaled back and moves to rein in soaring property prices started to bite.(AFP/File)AFP - China's economy grew 11.1 percent in the first half of 2010 compared with the same period a year earlier, the government said on Thursday.


AgBank shares open higher on China debut (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:44 PM PDT

Agricultural Bank of China made its stock market debut Thursday in Shanghai, opening 2.24 percent higher than its initial public offering price in what is shaping up to be the world's largest IPO.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Agricultural Bank of China made its stock market debut Thursday in Shanghai, opening 2.24 percent higher than its initial public offering price in what is shaping up to be the world's largest IPO.


Beijing starts gating, locking migrant villages (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 05:54 PM PDT

In this July 8, 2010, photo residents cycle past on the outside of a locked exit to a gated village on the outskirts of Beijing. The government calls it 'sealed management.' China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods, with police checking the papers of who comes in and out, in a throwback to an older style of control. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The government calls it "sealed management." China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.


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