2010年12月1日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China charges Aussie with embezzlement: Canberra (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:21 PM PST

A woman walks through Guangzhou's city centre on November 15, 2010. The Australian boss of a travel company based in the Chinese southern city of Guangzhou has been charged with embezzlement, foreign ministry officials in Canberra said Thursday, stressing their AFP - The Australian boss of a travel company based in southern China has been charged with embezzlement, foreign ministry officials in Canberra said Thursday, stressing their "strong interest" in his case.


US lawmakers fume over China's Iran links (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 03:49 PM PST

Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers take in the view from a balcony at the Military Museum in Beijing of a Chinese-made Dongfang-1 missile on display. US lawmakers united Wednesday in anger over China's insidious links with Iran, but also blamed Washington for failing to impose sanctions on Beijing for aiding Tehran's nuclear program.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - US lawmakers united Wednesday in anger over China's insidious links with Iran, but also blamed Washington for failing to impose sanctions on Beijing for aiding Tehran's nuclear program.


Pope prays for Chinese Catholics after bishop rift (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 03:36 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has called for prayers for Catholics in China following new tensions with the government over the illicit ordination of a bishop by the state-backed church.


Untied shoe blamed for China stampede (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST

Families wait outside a primary school in Aksu, in China's Xinjiang region on November 29, 2010, after nearly 100 children were hurt in a stampede. A stampede in a China primary school that left 41 children hospitalised was triggered when a young girl stopped to tie her shoe as students rushed out to a playground, state media said Wednesday.(AFP/File)AFP - A stampede in a China primary school that left 41 children hospitalised was triggered when a young girl stopped to tie her shoe as students rushed out to a playground, state media said Wednesday.


China says avoid acts inflaming Korea tensions (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST

A South Korean islander is checked by a South Korean police officer as a marine looks on before leaving from a port of Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. The United States and South Korea were finishing up war maneuvers Wednesday aimed at North Korea after a deadly attack on the island and discussing whether to hold more, as China tried to restart the aid-for-nuclear-disarmament talks coveted by the North. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - China's foreign minister called Wednesday on all parties to avoid acts that risk further inflaming heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.


China school stampede triggered by lost shoe (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:19 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010, an AIDS patient rests in bed at the infectious diseases hospital in Kunming in southwestern China's Yunnan province.   In his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS. (AP Photo)  CHINA OUTAP - A young girl's lost shoe triggered a stampede that injured dozens of students at an elementary school in western China, state media reported Wednesday.


China manufacturing up as Japan, Australia slow (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:38 PM PST

People eat noodle outside a wholesale clothing market in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. China's government is widening its anti-inflation campaign, Wednesday ordering a crackdown on speculators it accuses of illegally pushing up commodity prices. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - China's manufacturing boom picked up pace in November, shrugging off weakness in the U.S. and other export markets that slowed production in Japan and Australia.


China's healthcare plans bump against rural skills gap (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:21 PM PST

A victim injured from an accident receives medical treatment at a hospital in Shenzhen, Guangdong province June 29, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - Doctor Liu Youhong made do for decades with two years of rudimentary medical training, enough to meet villagers' basic needs in his untidy rural corner of the eastern province of Jiangsu.


China arrests hundreds of hackers, says situation "grim" (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:16 PM PST

Reuters - China has arrested more than 460 hackers from start of this year to the end of November, but the prospects to prevent future assaults on computer security remain grim, the ministry of public security said.

WikiLeaks website blocked behind Chinese firewall (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:14 PM PST

FILE - In this March 25, 2010 file photo, a Chinese flag blows in the air below the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. The classified diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks and reported on by The New York Times cited a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that included allegations from a Chinese contact that China's Politburo directed a cyber intrusion into Google's computer systems as part of a 'coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws.' (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)AP - Links to the WikiLeaks website were blocked within China on Wednesday amid potentially embarrassing claims made in leaked U.S. diplomatic cables posted to the site.


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