2011年10月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


House panel sets hearing on China trade concerns (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:57 PM PDT

Reuters - A senior Republican lawmaker on Tuesday announced a congressional hearing next week on Chinese trade practices he said were hurting American businesses and workers, but stopped short of promising action on Senate currency legislation to deal with the concerns.

Group says Tibetan sets herself on fire in protest (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:13 AM PDT

AP - A Tibetan nun calling for greater religious freedom died after setting herself on fire in western China, the latest in a series of self-immolations among the region's Buddhist clergy, an advocacy group said Tuesday.

China vaccinates 4.5 million in fight against polio (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Reuters - China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organization said.

U.S. official says currency bill reflects frustration with China (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:51 AM PDT

Reuters - Contentious legislation in the United States aimed at pressuring China to raise the value of the yuan reflects broader American frustrations with its trade partner, a senior U.S. trade official said on Tuesday.

China sets in motion plan for 2012 succession meeting (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT

China's President Hu Jintao takes part in a National Day ceremony before the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square in Beijing October 1, 2011. REUTERS/Kyodo/Takuro Yabe/PoolReuters - China's leaders ended their latest closed-door conclave on Tuesday with a decision to hold a Communist Party congress in the second half of 2012 to install successors to President Hu Jintao's generation.


China's top communists call for cultural campaign (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Chinese police officers watch an area near where China's top leaders are taking part in the party Central Committee's annual meeting Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The annual meeting brings together the top 371 members of the ruling party to discuss major issues and strengthen the sort of professional networks that can decide who gets the call to higher office.  AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The ruling Communist Party approved a program Tuesday to enhance its popularity at home and China's image abroad at a time when the leadership is struggling with domestic unrest and a delicate succession.


China vaccinates 9 million amid polio outbreak (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:32 AM PDT

AP - Chinese health authorities have vaccinated more than 9 million people in a far western region against polio amid an outbreak of the disease that has paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them.

China's economic growth slows amid cooling efforts (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:24 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday Oct. 13, 2011, sales promoters talk to visitors at a housing fair in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province. China's rapid economic growth eased in the latest quarter of 2011 as the government tried to prevent overheating. Beijing has repeated hiked interest rates and imposed curbs on construction and other investment to prevent runaway growth. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - China's rapid growth eased last quarter to a still-robust 9.1 percent — enough to ease concerns of an abrupt slowdown in the world's second-largest economy but too little to buoy the troubled West.


Debt panic in China's Wenzhou may augur wider woes (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:23 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, former workers enroll to resume jobs at the Zhe Jiang Center Group, one of China's biggest makers of eyeglasses, outside the company's compound in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province.  Zhe Jiang Center Group's boss Hu Fulin was one of dozens of factory bosses who skipped town had been at the center of what some have dubbed China's 'subprime debt crisis', a festering of borrowings gone sour.  Hu has returned to Wenzhou on promises from local business associations and governments to restructure these debts. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - Wenzhou's private entrepreneurs, scrappy survivors in an economy ruled by state industries, once thrived on a formula of cheap backstreet loans and low-cost manufacturing.


China police shoot Tibetans, nun burns to death: group (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:37 AM PDT

Reuters - A Tibetan nun in China burned herself to death on Monday a day after police shot and wounded two Tibetan demonstrators, a group advocating Tibetan self-determination said, the latest protests against Chinese rule of the Himalayan region.

China growth slows to 2-year low (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 04:35 AM PDT

Workers install scaffolding at a residential building under construction in Wuhan, Hubei province October 18, 2011. China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace since early 2009 as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)Reuters - China's economic expansion slowed in the third quarter to its weakest pace in more than two years as euro-debt strains and a sluggish U.S. economy took a toll, but healthy domestic drivers suggest little room to relax monetary policy near term.


Taiwan and China to sign nuclear power safety deal (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:22 AM PDT

AP - Taiwan's top China negotiator says the island will sign an agreement with China later this week to cooperate on nuclear power-related security issues.

China vaccinates 4.5 million people in fight against polio (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:14 AM PDT

Reuters - China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralyzed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organization said.

Geithner and China's Wang discuss economy in phone call: report (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (C) listens to a conversation with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, via a video link, on the theme Reuters - United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan discussed economic relations and the international outlook in a phone call on Tuesday Beijing time, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.


Toddler hit-and-run sparks outrage in China (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:32 PM PDT

AP - A video showing a toddler being struck twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn't help the child.

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