2010年10月31日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Migrants wary as China launches census (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Pedestrians walk past a billboard for China's coming census. Millions of migrant workers fear Beijing will use the upcoming census as a means of launching a crackdown on illegal residents and impose heavy fines on anyone who has violated the nation's one-child policy.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Tan Jianguo and his wife are migrant workers who have lived in a dirty rundown alleyway in a Beijing suburb for the past 10 years, eking out a meagre living for themselves and their two small children.

China's Wen says World Expo good for reform (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:19 AM PDT

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao delivers a speech during the World Expo summit forum in Shanghai, on October 31. Shanghai shuts the gates to the World Expo -- a six-month exhibition of culture and technology that saw record attendance, a parade of foreign leaders and a display of China's growing power.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday that Shanghai's World Expo had given the fast-developing country the confidence to keep pushing reform, as visitors flooded the exhibition on its final day.

Shanghai World Expo ends; drew 72 million visitors (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:36 AM PDT

Visitors sits on a roller-coaster on top of the Swiss Pavilion against the sunset at the Shanghai World Expo site Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. China declared its biggest tourism event ever, the Shanghai World Expo, a stunning success Sunday, after introducing a record 72 million visitors to a smorgasbord of cultures and technologies meant to illustrate ideas for urban sustainability. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China wrapped up its record-breaking World Expo on Sunday with a lavish display of national pride, as organizers of the mammoth event pledged to continue pursuing more sustainable, balanced growth.

China rights lawyers blocked from going to US (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 12:26 AM PDT

Two prominent Chinese lawyers have been barred from flying to the United States to meet legal experts, one of the attorneys and an activist group said, amid a general crackdown on rights campaigners.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Two prominent Chinese lawyers have been barred from flying to the United States to meet legal experts, one of the attorneys and an activist group said, amid a general crackdown on rights campaigners.

UN chief discusses Myanmar with China (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:46 PM PDT

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, seen here delivering a speech during the World Expo summit forum in Shanghai, on October 31. Ban, on a visit to China, has held talks with foreign minister Yang Jiechi on the situation in Myanmar ahead of the country's much-criticised election next week.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on a visit to China, has held talks with foreign minister Yang Jiechi on the situation in Myanmar ahead of the country's much-criticised election next week.

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