2010年7月20日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Summary Box: China's rapid rebound is slowing (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:20 AM PDT

AP - SLOWER GROWTH: China's government says growth in factory output and state company revenue has fallen and exports will weaken in the second half of the year. Economic growth slowed to 10.3 percent in the second quarter, down from its blistering 11.9 percent first-quarter pace as Beijing winds down stimulus efforts and cools a credit boom.

Summary Box: China surpasses US as top energy user (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:05 AM PDT

AP - THE BIGGEST USER: The International Energy Agency says China is now the world's largest energy consumer, not the U.S. The historic shift comes years ahead of forecasts and as China's energy use has more than doubled in less than a decade.

China rushes to keep oil from international waters (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 10:17 AM PDT

In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter rush to aid his colleagues who ran into trouble amid thick oil cover as they attempted to fix an underwater pump in Dalian, China port of Dalian, China on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile (180-square-kilometer) stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)AP - China rushed to keep an oil spill from reaching international waters Tuesday, while an environmental group tried to assess if the country's largest reported spill was worse than has been disclosed.

China uses oil-eating bacteria to clean up spill (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:09 AM PDT

Workers drain away polluted water from the Zijin copper mine. Authorities in China are using over 23 tonnes of oil-eating bacteria to help clean up an oil spill in the Yellow Sea caused by a pipeline explosion and fire at the weekend, state media said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - Authorities in China are using over 23 tonnes of oil-eating bacteria to help clean up an oil spill in the Yellow Sea caused by a pipeline explosion and fire at the weekend, state media said Tuesday.

13 missing in China landslide as flood woes persist (AFP/File)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:03 AM PDT

AFP/File - Thirteen people were missing after a landslide Tuesday in southwestern China, where flooding caused by relentless torrential rains has triggered a series of deadly disasters, state media said.

Worker at Foxconn affiliate falls to death in China (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:43 AM PDT

Flowers are placed outside a store selling Apple products during a day of remembrance in Hong Kong on June 8 after a number of suicides at a Foxconn factory. A worker at a subsidiary of Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn has died in south China after falling from a dormitory building, state media reported, in the 12th such death this year.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - A worker at an affiliate of technology giant Foxconn died Tuesday in south China after falling from a dorm building, state media said, after a spate of similar deaths hit the Taiwanese firm this year.

China vows to stop restaurant reuse of cooking oil (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:36 AM PDT

A chef takes a break after lunch hours at a restaurant in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. China has ordered food safety officials nationwide to step up the fight against 'gutter oil' that is illegally skimmed from kitchen waste and resold, part of a government crackdown on foods tainted with potentially lethal substances (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese call it "gutter oil" — a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors — and it's being used widely in the country's eateries.

China surpasses US as world's top energy consumer (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, workers load coal into a truck outside a coal mine in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, July 20, 2010. China immediately questioned the calculation. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the calculation.

Official: China's slowdown helping restructuring (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:31 AM PDT

A minivan driver reads newspaper while resting near an advertisement board showing an aerial photo of Beijing's Central Business District in Beijing Tuesday, July 20, 2010. In new signs China's rapid rebound is slowing, the government said Tuesday growth in factory output and state company revenues has fallen and exports will weaken in the second half of the year. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - In new signs China's rapid rebound is slowing, the government said Tuesday growth in factory output and state company revenues has fallen and exports will weaken in the second half of the year.

China satisfied with Google search engine tweak (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:31 AM PDT

Reuters - China is satisfied that U.S. Internet giant Google Inc is complying with Chinese laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Honda China supplier gets tough on striking workers (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:10 AM PDT

Workers on strike gather at the front gate of Atsumitec Co. plant in Foshan, southern Chinese Guangdong province July 20, 2010. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - A Chinese supplier of parts to Honda Motor Co has taken a tougher line in a labor dispute, saying it will fire some striking workers after bringing in replacements over the weekend.

China floods claim more lives (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Torrential rain that has lashed China for weeks has killed dozens more people in China's west and forced authorities to close shipping locks on the massive Three Gorges Dam, officials said on Tuesday.

Floods, landslides kill 37 in central China (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Rescuers were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surged past the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Rescuers in China were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surged past the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest.

China says Google renewal due to legal compliance (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 01:50 AM PDT

A man rides a motobike past the logo of Google's Chinese headquarters in Beijing on June 30. China renewed Google's licence to operate in the country after the company agreed to respect Chinese censorship laws, an official said Tuesday in the government's first public comment on the issue.(AFP/File/Franko Lee)AFP - China renewed Google's licence to operate in the country after the company agreed to respect Chinese censorship laws, an official said Tuesday in the government's first public comment on the issue.

China denies IEA label as world's top energy user (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:29 AM PDT

Reuters - China on Tuesday denied a report that it had surpassed the United States last year to become the world's largest energy user.

China urges US not to 'politicise' steel deal (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:12 AM PDT

A steel worker signals a crane to lift a roll of steel in Wuhan, central China. China has urged the United States not to AFP - China on Tuesday urged the United States not to "politicise" a Chinese steelmaker's plan to invest in an American firm, after US lawmakers strongly objected to the deal.

China rejects world's number one energy user title (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:57 PM PDT

A power plant is seen in Beijing. China has rejected an assessment from the International Energy Agency that it had surpassed the United States to become the world's top energy consumer, calling the data AFP - China on Tuesday rejected an assessment from the International Energy Agency that it had surpassed the United States to become the world's top energy consumer, calling the data "unreliable".

Glimmer of hope in China's 'brain drain' battle (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Professor Shi Yigong left a top research position in the US to become the dean of life sciences at Beijing's Tsinghua University in 2008. China is pushing to reverse a AFP - Two years ago, molecular biologist Shi Yigong was a prize-winning Princeton University professor with annual research funding of more than two million dollars and a seemingly limitless US academic career.

ADB: China may need rate hikes to avoid inflation (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 10:16 PM PDT

AP - China should boost interest rates or allow its currency to strengthen to help curb inflation pressures, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.

China downcast on exports as EU debt woes bite (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 09:29 PM PDT

Reuters - China sounded a gloomy note on Tuesday about its export prospects, warning in particular that belt-tightening by deeply indebted European Union governments would dampen demand for the country's goods.

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