2010年9月23日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Obama asks Wen for more action on yuan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:49 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama urged Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday to take rapid steps to address a dispute over the value of China's currency and made clear the United States would protect its economic interests.

Japanese quizzed in China as maritime dispute tensions rise (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Chinese paramilitary police are seen outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing. China is investigating four Japanese nationals over claims they filmed sensitive military installations, state media said Thursday, in an escalation of a damaging row between the two countries.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China is investigating four Japanese nationals over claims they filmed sensitive military installations, in an escalation of a damaging row between the two countries.


Obama pushes China on currency in meeting (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 02:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama prepares to sit down across from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for a bilateral meeting at the United Nations, Thursday, Sept.  23, 2010. National Security Adviser James Jones is at left. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama pushed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday to make changes to a currency policy the United States says hurts struggling American workers.


Clinton urges dialogue to resolve China-Japan row (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (2nd R) listens to US Secretry of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) during their meeting at a hotel in New York on September 23.The disputed islands at the heart of a bitter diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo are covered by the Japan-US security treaty, Clinton told Japan's foreign minister Thursday, reports said.(AFP/POOL/Eisaku Osada)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Japan Thursday to pursue dialogue with China in a bid to resolve quickly a row over a Chinese trawler captain detained near islands claimed by both countries.


China says 4 Japanese suspected of illegal filming (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT

Reuters - China is investigating four Japanese suspected of entering a military zone and illegally videotaping military targets, Xinhua news agency said, in the latest row to threaten ties between Asia's two biggest economies.

Clinton says disputed islands part of Japan-US pact: Maehara (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 11:25 AM PDT

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (2nd R) listens to US Secretry of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) during their meeting at a hotel in New York on September 23.The disputed islands at the heart of a bitter diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo are covered by the Japan-US security treaty, Clinton told Japan's foreign minister Thursday, reports said.(AFP/POOL/Eisaku Osada)AFP - The disputed islands at the heart of a bitter diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo are covered by the Japan-US security treaty, Hillary Clinton told Japan's foreign minister Thursday, reports said.


China says 4 Japanese filmed military targets (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:03 AM PDT

AP - Chinese state media said Thursday that four Japanese are being investigated after being accused of entering a military zone without authorization and illegally filming military targets.

China bans mine bosses from sending assistants down shafts (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Mine workers carry pipes to the entrance to the Wangjialing coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province in March 2010. Coal mine managers in China, who have to go underground with workers under new rules aimed at improving safety, have been banned from tasking assistants to take their place, state media said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Coal mine managers in China, who have to go underground with workers under new rules aimed at improving safety, have been banned from tasking assistants to take their place, state media said Thursday.


China 'questions Japanese' for filming military zone (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 08:47 AM PDT

Chinese paramilitary police are seen outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing. China is investigating four Japanese nationals over claims they filmed sensitive military installations, state media said Thursday, in an escalation of a damaging row between the two countries.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Four Japanese were being questioned for entering a military zone in north China without authorisation and illegally videotaping military targets, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.


Namibia court postpones China graft case again (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 08:43 AM PDT

A Namibian court Thursday postponed to next month the case of three suspects arrested in a graft probe involving a firm linked to the son of China's President Hu Jintao, see here in 2009.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - A Namibian court Thursday postponed to next month the case of three suspects arrested in a graft probe involving a firm linked to the son of China's President Hu Jintao.


China denies ban on rare earths exports to Japan (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 06:51 AM PDT

AP - China's Trade Ministry denied reports Thursday that Beijing is tightening curbs on exports of crucial rare earth elements to Japan after a territorial dispute further strained often tense relations between the rival Asian powers.

Typhoon Fanapi kills 54 in China: state media (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:35 AM PDT

A fallen electric pole lies across a street in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian province on September 20. Typhoon Fanapi, one of the strongest storms to hit China in years, has left 54 people dead and 42 missing in flooding and landslides in the south, state media have said.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - Typhoon Fanapi, one of the strongest storms to hit China in years, has left 54 people dead and 42 missing in flooding and landslides in the south of the country, state media said on Thursday.


Typhoon kills 54 in China, dozens missing (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 02:03 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people walk across a flood-damaged bridge in Qianpai Town in Xinyi, south China's Guangdong Province, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. Typhoon Fanapi swamped Guangdong province after making a direct hit on the island of Taiwan on Sunday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Yehua) ** NO SALES **AP - Floods and landslides from the strongest storm to hit China this year have killed at least 54 people and left dozens missing since it struck earlier this week, officials said Thursday.


China marks 30 years of one-child policy (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 01:10 AM PDT

The population control law that limits many in China to one child in a bid to improve people's lives marks its own 30th birthday on Saturday, having been formally implemented in 1980.(AFP/File)AFP - Han Mei knew when she fell pregnant for the second time that she was facing an extortionate fine, a salary drop and even the loss of her job for having flouted China's infamous one-child policy.


China denies banning rare earths exports to Japan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:55 AM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese trade official on Thursday denied a New York Times report that China had banned exports of rare earths to Japan following the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain near disputed islands.

No China-Japan meetings planned: Japanese official (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:03 PM PDT

Chinese paramilitary police are seen outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing. No meetings are yet planned between officials from the Asian nations which are at loggerheads over a detained trawler captain that has turned into an acrimonious row over a set of disputed islands.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - No meetings are yet planned between Japanese and Chinese officials on a dispute over a detained trawler captain that has turned into an acrimonious row between the Asian powers, a top Japanese official has said.


China needs huge urban investment: state media (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:42 PM PDT

A girl speaks on her phone in a neighborhood of traditional walled courtyard homes in Beijing. China may need to invest up to 3.6 trillion dollars in urban infrastructure by 2020 to accommodate the growing number of rural residents moving to the country's cities, state media reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China may need to invest up to 3.6 trillion dollars in urban infrastructure by 2020 to accommodate the growing number of rural residents moving to the country's cities, state media reported Thursday.


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