2010年9月3日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


EU presses China to step up fight against fakes (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:10 AM PDT

A customer is reflected looking through the window of a shop selling fake branded mobile phones and MP3 players in Beijing. The European Union has pressed China to back up its words with action and do more to stem the flow of Chinese-made counterfeit goods into Europe and around the world.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The European Union pressed China on Friday to back up its words with action and do more to stem the flow of Chinese-made counterfeit goods into Europe and around the world.


China landslide toll rises to 15, with 33 still missing (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Chinese rescuers search for survivors after landslides swept through a mountain village near the city of Baoshan in a rugged region of southwest China's Yunnan province. The death toll from rain-triggered landslides that struck a remote village in southwestern China has risen to 15, with another 33 people missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.(AFP)AFP - The death toll from rain-triggered landslides that struck a remote village in southwestern China has risen to 15, with another 33 people missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.


At least 26 killed in vehicle accidents in China (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:45 AM PDT

Cars are seen in heavy traffic on one of Beijing's major ring roads. At least 26 people were killed in separate vehicle accidents in northeastern China.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - At least 26 people were killed in separate vehicle accidents in northeastern China on Friday, state media reported.


Thousands of trucks stuck in China traffic jam (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 03:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, a cleaner picks up waste on the roadside of a jammed section of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway in Huailai, in north China's Hebei province. Thousands of coal trucks were backed up for miles on the northern China highway Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, the latest in a series of monster jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this summer. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles were backed up for miles on a highway in northern China on Friday, the latest in a series of monster traffic jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this summer.


China orders action to cool food prices (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 12:34 AM PDT

AP - China has ordered local leaders to cool a surge in politically sensitive food prices by raising vegetable production amid rising tensions in poor countries over surging food costs.

Heavy in dollars, China warns of depreciation (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 08:26 PM PDT

An employee counts Yuan banknotes at a branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Huaibei, Anhui August 3, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly allocated in dollars, while a central banker said the mountain of cash could face depreciation risks.


China farmers under siege from wild boar invasion (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 08:15 PM PDT

Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars, who are destroying crops and upsetting the ecological balance, state media said on Friday. Wild boar numbers have risen to an estimated 150,000 in Zhejiang province, compared to about 29,000 a decade ago, the China Daily said.(AFP/File/Dieter Nagl)AFP - Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars, who are destroying crops and upsetting the ecological balance, state media said on Friday.


Death toll in China fireworks blast jumps to 33 (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 07:41 PM PDT

An ambulance is seen in China. The death toll from an explosion last month at a fireworks factory in the northeast of the country has leapt to 33 from a previously reported 20 dead, state media has said.(AFP/File)AFP - The death toll from an explosion last month at a fireworks factory in northeastern China has leapt to 33 from a previously reported 20 dead, state media said.


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