2010年7月31日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:39 AM PDT

Yuan banknotes are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Beijing July 26, 2010. There is no basis for a major appreciation in the yuan exchange rate, the State Information Center, a government think tank, said on Monday. REUTERS/Jason LeeAP - China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.


Floods kill 37 in China's northeast: media (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 05:28 AM PDT

A general view shows the town of Kouqian in China's Jilin province, on July 28. The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.(AFP/File)AFP - The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.


China says coal mine blast leaves 17 dead (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 02:05 AM PDT

This general view shows smog covering the main street of Linfen, in China's Shanxi province. 17 people have been killed in a coal mine blast in near Linfen, according to state media, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.


Chinese activists speak out for jailed Uighur (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:08 PM PDT

AP - Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades.

Blast hits China tax office in apparent attack (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:38 PM PDT

Reuters - A blast rocked a local tax office in central China, killing at least four people and injuring 19, in what police say appeared to be a deliberate attack, the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

Explosion at coal mine kills at least 15 in China (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:33 PM PDT

AP - An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.
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