2010年10月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Administration delays China currency report (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:11 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration announced Friday it will delay a scheduled report on whether China is manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages until after upcoming meetings with world leaders next month.

US to probe China's green-tech trade policies (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:01 PM PDT

US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, seen here in September 2010, announced a probe into allegations that China is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal subsidies in a bid to dominate the green-energy sector.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US authorities on Friday announced a probe into claims that China is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal subsidies in a bid to dominate the green-energy sector.

BMW recalls 21,000 cars from China: state media (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT

An employee of German luxury car maker BMW, polishes the BMW logo during an annual press conference on March 2010 in Munich, Germany. German car giant BMW has begun a recall of more than 21,000 luxury sedans from China after detecting a brake fault, Chinese state media reported, citing the country's quality watchdog.(AFP/DDP/File/Joerg Koch)AFP - German car giant BMW has begun a recall of more than 21,000 luxury sedans from China after detecting a brake fault, Chinese state media reported, citing the country's quality watchdog.

U.S. backs off in currency dispute with China (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:29 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration backed away on Friday from a showdown with Beijing over the value of China's currency that would have caused new frictions between the world's only superpower and its largest creditor.

Pelosi Statement on Obama Administration Investigation into China's Unfair Clean Energy Technology Trade Policies (PR Newswire)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:23 PM PDT

PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement in response to the announcement today by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that the United States will initiate a Section 301 investigation on the policies of the Chinese government in respect to trade and investment in green technology.  On September 28, 2010, a bipartisan group of 181 members of Congress sent the attached letter to President Obama calling for this 301 investigation.

Analysis: U.S. gives currency diplomacy another chance (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:04 PM PDT

A yuan banknote is displayed next to a U.S. dollar banknote (back) for the photographer at a money changer inside the Taoyuan International Airport March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - The U.S. Treasury's currency report delay suggests Washington wants to give diplomacy another chance to convince China it is in everyone's interest to speed up the yuan's rise.

Reform calls mount as China's all-powerful Communists meet (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:11 AM PDT

A PLA soldier stops photographs being taken outside a hotel believed to be hosting the Chinese Communist Party's secretive annual meeting, in Beijing. The plenum of the roughly 300-member Central Committee in Beijing is typically cloaked in great secrecy with details released only after it ends with even its location not publicly announced.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's Communist Party opened a secretive annual meeting Friday to debate a new five-year economic plan against the backdrop of unusually outspoken calls for political reform.

After industry, Germany exports lifestyle to China (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 07:15 AM PDT

The German-made Intensa cooking system from Fissler being demonstrated at the 2007 International Home and Housewares in Chicago. Piggybacking on the reputation for quality built by the cars and machines made by their compatriots, German consumer goods brands are feverishly wooing Chinese customers as they try to catch up with their French and Italian rivals in a fast-growing market.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)AFP - Piggybacking on the reputation for quality built by the cars and machines made by their compatriots, German consumer goods brands are feverishly wooing Chinese customers as they try to catch up with their French and Italian rivals in a fast-growing market.

After peace prize, China targets winner's friends (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 07:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 3, 2010 file photo, Chinese Ding Zilin, co-founder of the Tiananmen Mothers, a group representing families of those who died in the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, reacts, while talking about her late son who died at 17 in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, at her apartment in Beijing, China, one day before the 21st anniversary of the incident. The latest appears to be a woman who Liu has said should win the prize: Ding Zilin, who has fought for years for China's government to recognize the hundreds killed in the military's crackdown. Liu's wife sent out an alert late Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, that said Ding had 'disappeared' and urged people to 'pay attention' to her case. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)AP - In the week after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of promoting democratic change in China, dozens of people who openly agreed with his views say they have been detained, roughed up, harassed or kept from leaving their homes.

China says yuan must not be 'scapegoat' for US woes (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:41 AM PDT

A Chinese bank worker counts a stack of US dollars together with stacks of 100 Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Hefei. China said Friday the yuan exchange rate must not be used as a AFP - China said Friday the yuan exchange rate must not be used as a "scapegoat" for the United States' economic woes, ahead of a Treasury Department report that could label the country a currency manipulator.

Obama tested on US-China ties with currency report (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:02 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama faces a deadline Friday that could test already fragile U.S.-China relations: He must decide whether to accuse Beijing formally of using its currency to gain unfair trade advantages against the United States.

Activists challenge Beijing over Nobel prisoner (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:42 AM PDT

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia pose in this undated photo released by his family on October 3, 2010. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - About 200 Chinese dissidents and rights advocates called the Nobel Peace Prize for jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo a "splendid choice" that should push China to embrace democratic reform, challenging a clampdown on dissent.

China leaders grapple with rifts threatening growth (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:57 AM PDT

Reuters - China's leaders will seek ways to narrow the economic and social rifts threatening long-term growth at a conclave which could also signal who will succeed them in running the world's most populous country.

China's SAIC does not rule out taking part in GM IPO (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:50 AM PDT

Reuters - China's top automaker SAIC Motor Corp (600104.SS) does not rule out the possibility of investing in General Motors' initial public offering, the chairman of the Chinese automaker said.

Sinochem abandons plan to bid for PotashCorp: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 06:57 AM PDT

Rocanville Potash Corp miner Nigel Kalyniak works on a potash miner roughly 1000 metres (3280 feet) below surface in Saskatchewan September 30, 2010. REUTERS/David StobbeReuters - China's Sinochem will not launch a counterbid for Canadian fertilizer giant Potash Corp , sources told Reuters on Friday, removing one of the biggest potential hurdles to BHP Billiton's $39 billion offer.

China's Wen inspiring debate with calls for reform (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao addresses the audience at the 6th EU China business summit in Brussels. The Chinese prime minister has called for change to China's political system repeatedly in the past few months. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)AP - Calls for reform of China's political system have come repeatedly in the past few months from an unexpected source — the country's premier — and his surprising remarks are stirring consternation and debate in the Communist Party as it prepares for a new generation of leaders.

China letter demands peace prize winner's release (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:12 PM PDT

AP - More than 100 Chinese activists have signed and released an open letter asking that Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo be released from prison.

China shuts down 1,600 illegal coal mines (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:43 PM PDT

AP - China has shut down more than 1,600 small, illegal coal mines this year as part of an effort to improve safety standards in a mining industry that is the most dangerous in the world.

China zoo gardener mauled to death by tigers (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:31 PM PDT

Photo illustration of a tiger. A gardener at a zoo in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen was mauled to death by five tigers after falling into their pen, Chinese media reported Friday.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - A gardener at a zoo in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen was mauled to death by five tigers after falling into their pen, Chinese media reported Friday.

TI opens its first semi factory in China (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 07:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Texas Instruments has opened a Chinese semiconductor wafer factory with enough operating capacity to support more than $1 billion in annual revenue, the U.S. chip maker said on Thursday.

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