2010年9月28日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Lawmakers urge penalties for Chinese company (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:51 PM PDT

AP - Two senior senators are urging the Obama administration to punish the Chinese National Petroleum Co. for investing in Iran.

Lawmakers eyes late-year Senate vote on China yuan (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:32 PM PDT

Reuters - The Senate will wait until after the November 2 congressional elections to vote on legislation to pressure China to raise the value of its currency, Democratic senators said on Tuesday.

GOME shareholders reject bid to oust chairman (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 08:29 AM PDT

A shopper talks on his phone outside a GOME electronics shop in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. GOME shareholders on Tuesday voted down a bid to oust the company's chairman, a spokeswoman said, after the appliance chain's jailed founder launched the bizarre corporate showdown.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - GOME shareholders on Tuesday voted down a bid to oust the company's chairman, a spokeswoman said, after the appliance chain's jailed founder launched the bizarre corporate showdown.


Russia's Medvedev says ties with China at 'highest point' (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) proceed to a ceremony at the World Expo in Shanghai. Medvedev said Tuesday that Sino-Russian ties had reached their AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that Sino-Russian ties had reached their "highest point" ever as he wrapped up a state visit to China with a tour of the World Expo in Shanghai.


China seen as isolating self with tough diplomacy (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 05:10 AM PDT

AP - China's increasingly muscular diplomacy may be repelling its Asian neighbors and pushing them closer to the United States, helping fulfill Beijing's fears of being systematically encircled by Washington and its allies, analysts say.

UPS eyeing China domestic parcel service market: report (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:21 AM PDT

Reuters - United Parcel Service Inc is planning to set up a domestic postal service in China and will submit a license application to the Chinese postal regulator as early as this week, the Financial Times said.

Beijing police raid gay spot, question dozens (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:17 AM PDT

AP - Beijing police raided a popular outdoor hangout for gay men and took dozens in for questioning over the weekend as part of a security sweep ahead of China's National Day holiday, an activist said Tuesday.

China says prize for dissident would be against Nobel aims (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:07 AM PDT

Reuters - Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a well-known Chinese dissident would run contrary to the principles of its founder, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

China tells Japan not to interfere in disputed isles (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:54 AM PDT

Reuters - China told Japan on Tuesday to stop interfering with Chinese fishery protection vessels operating in seas claimed by both countries that are at the center of a deepening diplomatic row between the two.

China could launch lunar probe on Friday: state media (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:10 AM PDT

The first photo of the moon taken by China's Chang'e-1 orbiter, was released as evidence of the nation's rise as a space and technological power on 26 November 2007 in Beijing. China is making final preparations to launch its second lunar probe, possibly as soon as Friday, when the nation marks 61 years of communist rule, state media reported Tuesday.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - China is making final preparations to launch its second lunar probe, possibly as soon as Friday, when the nation marks 61 years of communist rule, state media reported Tuesday.


Police detain gays in Beijing: activist (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 11:21 PM PDT

Dozens of gay men who gathered at an outdoor pick-up spot in Beijing were rounded up and detained in a huge police swoop ahead of China's National Day holiday, an activist said Tuesday.(AFP/File)AFP - Dozens of gay men who gathered at an outdoor pick-up spot in Beijing were rounded up and detained in a huge police swoop ahead of China's National Day holiday, an activist said Tuesday.


China sentences 2 to death for child trafficking (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:10 PM PDT

AP - Two men have been sentenced to death in eastern China for abducting and trafficking 40 infants.

Chinese appliance tycoon wars with board from jail (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2006 file photo, founder and former chairman of Gome Appliances Huang Guangyu, also known as Wong Kwong Yu, speaks during the announcement of a partnership between Gome and Motorola in Beijing, China. Chinese tycoon Huang Guangyu built Gome Electrical Appliances, one of the country's largest chain of appliance shops from scratch. Now, he's trying to regain control over his business empire from prison. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - Chinese tycoon Huang Guangyu built Gome Electrical Appliances, one of the country's largest chain of appliance shops from scratch. Now, he's trying to regain control over his business empire — from prison.


Jailed tycoon stages showdown with China's GOME (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:47 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk in front of a branch of GOME in Beijing. Shareholders in the firm are set to vote on whether to oust the company's chairman in a bizarre corporate showdown staged by the jailed tycoon who founded China's biggest household appliance chain.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - GOME shareholders will vote Tuesday on whether to oust the company's chairman in a bizarre corporate showdown staged by the jailed tycoon who founded China's biggest household appliance chain.


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