2010年7月26日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China Security 2Q net income more than doubles (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 01:23 PM PDT

AP - China Security & Surveillance Technology Inc., which makes electronic surveillance products and software, said Monday its second-quarter net income more than doubled as government spending on its services continued.

Summary Box: China promises investors bigger role (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 09:26 AM PDT

AP - STATE ADVANCES, SOCIETY RETREATS: China is promising private investors a bigger role in state-dominated industries like oil drilling and finance. Businesses have complained that state firms were boosted by Beijing's huge stimulus while private enterprise withered in the global crisis.

China's Zijin 'offered journalists cash amid spill' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 06:23 AM PDT

Workers drain away polluted water near the Zijin copper mine in Shanghang, on July 13, after pollution from the mine contaminated the Ting river, a major waterway in southeast China's Fujian province. China's Zijin Mining Group offered cash to journalists covering a toxic spill at a mine it operates in the southeast, state media said Monday, in an apparent bid to gain favourable coverage.(AFP/File)AFP - China's Zijin Mining Group offered cash to journalists covering a toxic spill at a mine it operates in the southeast, state media said Monday, in an apparent bid to gain favourable coverage.


China braces for more flooding as rains continue (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:36 AM PDT

Chinese soldiers move a speedboat during a mission to rescue villagers trapped in floodwaters in Luanchuan county, in central China's Henan province, Sunday, July 25, 2010. Though China experiences heavy rains every summer, flooding this year is the worst in more than a decade. More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared, the highest death toll since 1998. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT **AP - Troops sandbagged swollen rivers Monday and storm-battered regions across China prepared for more floods and potential landslides as forecasters predicted torrential rains this week.


China promises bigger private role in industry (AP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:51 AM PDT

AP - China's Cabinet promised private investors a bigger role in industries from oil drilling to finance, apparently responding to complaints that state companies were boosted by Beijing's huge stimulus while private enterprise withered in the global crisis.

China says oil spill under control (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 02:44 AM PDT

A man empties a bucket of oil recovered from water in the port city of Dalian, in China's northern Liaoning province. China said on Monday an oil spill on the country's northeast coast had been AFP - China said Monday an oil spill on the northeast coast had been successfully controlled as reports said operations at the port where it originated were returning to normal.


Lead poisoning hits 84 Chinese kids near smelters (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 01:41 AM PDT

Reuters - Over 80 children in a poor corner of southwestern China have been poisoned by lead from illegal smelters, the latest in a string of heavy metal pollution cases that have made hundreds sick over the last year.

11 missing in China landslides: state media (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:43 PM PDT

Chinese rescuers search for survivors after a landslide in Yunnan province earlier this month. Eleven people were missing after rain triggered landslides in southwest China on Monday, the latest victims of widespread flooding that has left 1,100 dead or missing, state media said.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - Eleven people were missing after rain triggered landslides in southwest China on Monday, the latest victims of widespread flooding that has left 1,100 dead or missing, state media said.


China developing gas reserves, will cut imports (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:54 PM PDT

Workers hold flags before the opening ceremony at a refinery in Samandepe in Turkmenistan last year, which provides gas along a pipeline to China. China is aggressively developing its own massive gas reserves, which will lead to imported gas requirements falling dramatically, the Financial Times reported Monday.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - China is aggressively developing its own massive gas reserves, which will lead to imported gas requirements falling dramatically, a newspaper reported Monday.


Suspended death sentence for top Chinese adviser (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 07:26 PM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese court sentenced a senior political adviser to death, suspended for two years, in the latest development in a wide-ranging investigation of corruption tied to home appliance magnate Huang Guangyu.

China will open wider to foreign business: minister (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Worries that China is throwing up obstacles to foreign business are misplaced, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said in an article published on Monday.

No basis for major yuan rise: source (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:12 PM PDT

Reuters - There is no basis for a major appreciation in the yuan exchange rate, the State Information Center, a government think tank, said on Monday.
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