2010年11月22日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Summary Box: China says it can curb inflation (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 12:23 PM PST

AP - CONFIDENT MULTI-TASKER: China's planning agency says the government has the capacity to control surging prices while keeping economic growth on track. The comments were seen as an effort to calm public anxiety about rising food costs.

China says all firms treated equally in green sector (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 10:19 AM PST

A picture taken in 2009 shows cars and people passing near wind power turbines in the China's southwestern Yunnan province. China said Monday it provided an equal playing field for domestic and foreign companies bidding for environmental projects in its lucrative green sector, amid concerns it favours local firms.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China said Monday it provided an equal playing field for domestic and foreign companies bidding for environmental projects in its lucrative green sector, amid concerns it favours local firms.


China to issue bonds worth 8 billion yuan in Hong Kong (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 10:03 AM PST

A hotel employee counts Chinese yuan bills in central China's Hubei province in 2007. China said Monday it would issue yuan-denominated government bonds worth 1.2 billion US dollars in Hong Kong, in its second RMB bond sale as Beijing tries to internationalise its currency.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - China said Monday it would issue yuan-denominated government bonds worth 1.2 billion US dollars in Hong Kong, in its second RMB bond sale as Beijing tries to internationalise its currency.


US teen protests in Beijing for NKorea peace park (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 05:49 AM PST

A plain clothes policeman stops people from taking pictures of environmental activist Jonathan Lee (R) and his mother Melissa Lee as they tried to display a banner in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing November 22, 2010. The banner read: AP - A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea into a peace park tried to get the Chinese president's attention Monday, staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square before being led away by police.


All 29 trapped in China mine rescued (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 12:52 AM PST

Coal miners are seen as they walk along a road shrouded in thick coal dust at a small mine in the town of Xiaoyi in China's Shanxi province. Rescuers have pulled to safety 29 people trapped in a flooded mine in southwestern China in a rare bit of good news for the country's disaster-prone mining sector.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Rescuers on Monday pulled to safety 29 people trapped in a flooded mine in southwestern China in a rare bit of good news for the country's disaster-prone mining sector.


China says it has capacity to curb inflation (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 10:16 PM PST

AP - Beijing has the capacity to control surging prices while keeping economic growth on track, China's main planning agency said Monday, in the latest effort to quell public anxiety about simmering inflation.

China Internet firms made to apologise over feud (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 10:14 PM PST

A woman surfs the Internet at a wireless cafe in Beijing. Two of China's leading web firms have been forced by the government to issue public apologies over a nasty spat marked by accusations of unfair market practices and privacy infringement.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Two of China's leading Internet firms have been forced by the government to issue public apologies over a nasty spat marked by accusations of unfair market practices and privacy infringement.


Chinese miners all rescued from flooded pit (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 10:12 PM PST

Reuters - Rescuers pulled out alive all 29 coal miners trapped underground by a flood in southwestern China on Monday, in a rare piece of good news for a country with a terrible record for mine disasters.

All 29 trapped in China mine rescued: state media (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 09:43 PM PST

Coal miners are seen as they walk along a road shrouded in thick coal dust at a small mine in the town of Xiaoyi in China's Shanxi province. Rescuers have pulled to safety 29 people trapped in a flooded mine in southwestern China in a rare bit of good news for the country's disaster-prone mining sector.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - All 29 people trapped in a Chinese coal mine that flooded the day before have been pulled out alive, state media said on Monday, in a rare successful rescue operation for China's accident-prone mines.


China takes aim at inflation expectations (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 09:34 PM PST

Reuters - China sought Monday to reassure people that inflation will remain in check, voicing confidence that ample grain supplies and excess capacity in industry will keep a lid on price pressures.

China feels heat of climate change rifts (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 08:15 PM PST

Reuters - Coaxing China into a global grand bargain to fight climate change that also satisfies the United States and other rich nations threatens to be even more daunting and elusive than fixing the economic rifts dividing them.
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