2010年10月23日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Canadian mountain climber missing in China (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 11:45 AM PDT

AFP - A Canadian climber has been missing for a week near the summit of a mountain in southwestern China, where bad weather forced rescuers to suspend their search, a mountaineering association said Saturday.

Amid China's Economic Boom, Philanthropy Still Lags (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 08:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Though China's number of billionaires is second only to the U.S., for most Chinese people, the idea of charity seems detached from their daily lives

Hundreds stage anti-Japan protest in SW China (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 06:47 AM PDT

Anti-Japan protesters face off police officers during a demonstration in the southwestern Chinese city of Deyang on Saturday Oct. 23, 2010. Students in two Chinese cities were ordered to attend classes over the weekend in the hopes of preventing more of the anti-Japan protests that have become rowdy in recent days, school officials and a human rights monitor said Saturday.  (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - Hundreds of people staged an anti-Japan protest in southwestern China on Saturday, even as school officials there ordered students to attend classes over the weekend in hopes of preventing a repeat of rowdy demonstrations over the past weeks.


Geithner and China's Wang to meet on Sunday (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 05:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Sunday will travel to Qingdao, China, to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, a senior Treasury official said.

China becomes Volvo's 'third largest market' (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:22 AM PDT

Li Shufu, chairman of Volvo Cars and founder and Chinese car maker Geely visits the Volvo factory in Gent, Belgium, earlier this month. State media say China has become the third largest market for Volvo, which Geely recently acquired.(AFP/File/Eric Demurie)AFP - China has become the third largest market for Volvo, which Chinese car maker Geely recently acquired, state media reported on Saturday.


China concerned over WTO ruling in dumping dispute (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:00 AM PDT

A labourer walks over pipes at an iron and steel plant in Huaibei, in China's Anhui province in August 2010. China said Saturday it was concerned about parts of a ruling made by the World Trade Organization in an anti-dumping dispute between Washington and Beijing.(AFP/File)AFP - China said Saturday it was concerned about parts of a ruling made by the World Trade Organization in an anti-dumping dispute between Washington and Beijing.


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

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:59 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.

China defends language reform after Tibet protests (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:32 PM PDT

Thousands of Tibetan students protest in Qinhai province against the government's education reform plan that focuses on Chinese as the main language of instruction and downgrades Tibetan to a language class on October 19, 2010.(AFP/File/Free Tibet)AFP - A top official in northwest China has defended an education reform plan that has sparked protests by Tibetan students over concerns that their mother-tongue is being sidelined.


China defends language policies in Tibetan areas (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:26 PM 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 - Chinese officials tried to defuse discontent following days of student protests in ethnically Tibetan areas, saying a plan to teach classes only in Mandarin Chinese was not aimed at wiping out Tibet's native tongue, state media reported Saturday.


Mexico nabs alleged Chinese migrant smuggler (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 05:16 PM PDT

AP - Mexican federal police have captured the suspected leader of a gang that trafficked Chinese migrants through Mexico to the U.S.

China's New Scandal: Tainted Milk or Smear Campaign? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - China's most recent milk scandal, in which tainted milk products were alleged to have caused early onset puberty in infants, took another odd twist this week when dairy giant Yili accused its rival of planting false rumors about their products
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