2010年10月22日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


American pleads guilty to trying to spy for China (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:20 PM PDT

Reuters - A Detroit man on Friday pleaded guilty to trying to get a job with the Central Intelligence Agency in order to spy for China and to hiding contacts and money he got from Chinese intelligence agents.

Typhoon weakens on path to China, kills 3 in Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:49 AM PDT

Rescue team members carry a body after landslides caused by Typhoon Megi in Suao, Ilan County in northern Taiwan October 22, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A typhoon initially feared to be among the worst in 50 years weakened on a course to southern China after killing at least three people in Taiwan and stranding hundreds more.


China against current account limits: G20 source (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

Reuters - China has made clear it will not agree to a G20 communique that explicitly binds countries to limits on current account balances or any other form of rules on currency policy, a G20 source told Reuters on Friday.

Tibet language issue a new headache for China (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:17 AM PDT

In this Oct. 19, 2010 photo released by Free Tibet Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010, Tibetan students gather in protest on the streets of Tongren in western China's Qinghai province. Tibetan students in western China marched in protest of unconfirmed plans to use the Chinese language exclusively in classes, teachers said Wednesday, an unusually bold challenge to authorities that reflects a deep unease over cultural marginalization. (AP Photo/Free Tibet) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Two years after a wave of anti-government violence spread across China's Tibetan regions, there is a new source of friction in Beijing's relationship with one of its most restive minorities — students marching in protest against reported plans to impose Chinese as the sole language of instruction at schools.


China milk scare exposes scandal-for-hire industry (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 04:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file photo, a worker drags a cart near a production line while an advertisement video appears on a screen in a diary factory owned by Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China's largest dairy producers, in Hohhot, in north China's Inner Mongolia region. The rumors spread by Internet that the Chinese dairy's baby formula might harm infants played on the worst fears of jittery parents after an avalanche of scandals over tainted milk. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - Rumors on the Web that a major Chinese dairy company's baby formula might harm infants played on the worst fears of jittery parents after a string of scandals over tainted milk.


US envoy: Climate deal still possible in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:57 AM PDT

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern gestures while speaking during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - A global agreement to curb carbon emissions is possible at an upcoming U.N. climate conference but hinges on the efforts and political will of countries, the U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said Friday in Beijing.


China says global recovery shaky, to spur yuan use (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:46 AM PDT

Reuters - The global economy has yet to find its feet, with the U.S. recovery slowing and imbalances within the euro zone worsening, a Chinese central banker said in comments published on Friday.

Brother of missing Chinese lawyer appeals to police (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:05 AM PDT

The brother of missing prominent Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, seen here in 2005, has travelled to Beijing to ask police about his sibling's whereabouts but was turned back without any news.(AFP/File/Verna Yu)AFP - The brother of missing prominent Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng said Friday he had travelled to Beijing to ask police about his sibling's whereabouts but was turned back without any news.


Tokyo says Japan and China should avoid tit-for-tat (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 02:01 AM PDT

A Shinto priest prepares for a visit by a group of Japanese lawmakers at the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead in Tokyo August 15, 2010, on the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Japan and China should focus on the big picture and avoid tit-for-tat recriminations, Japan's chief cabinet secretary said on Friday, as public protests and sharp comments by senior officials suggested mounting tensions between Asia's two biggest economies.


China activists plan whistleblower site to spur reform (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:37 AM PDT

A man surfs the Internet at a cafe in Beijing. Chinese activists are planning to launch a whistleblowing website modelled on WikiLeaks in a bid to expose state secrets and spur political reform, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese activists are planning to launch a whistleblowing website modelled on WikiLeaks in a bid to expose state secrets and spur political reform, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.


Chinese smelter found leaking thallium into river (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:38 AM PDT

File photo shows workers clearing waste from the heavily polluted Pearl River in southern China's Guangdong province. China suffers from widespread water pollution after years of unbridled economic growth. According to government data, more than 200 million Chinese currently do not have access to safe drinking water.(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - A major state-owned industrial conglomerate in China said Friday it had been ordered to stop production at one of its smelters after it was found to be leaking highly toxic thallium into a river.


Bank of China chief urges push overseas (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 11:32 PM PDT

Two women walk past a branch of the Bank of China in Beijing in September 2010. The head of the bank has urged the country's financial sector to step up its expansion overseas, in a sign Beijing may allow banks to resume offshore activities, a report said Friday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - The head of a major Chinese bank has urged the country's financial sector to step up its expansion overseas, in a sign Beijing may allow banks to resume offshore activities, a report said Friday.


Tibet language protests spread in China: rights group (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 09:43 PM PDT

Tibetan students march during a rally in Tongren in China's Qinghai Province on October 19, 2010, to protest against plans to use Chinese as the medium of instruction for all subjects in schools. The protests have spread to other areas of northwestern China, a London-based Tibet rights group said.(AFP/TCHRD/Ho)AFP - Protests by Tibetan students demanding the right to study in their language have spread to other areas of northwestern China, a London-based Tibet rights group said.


bnzv