2011年2月18日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China raises bank reserves to record in inflation fight (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:31 PM PST

Chinese yuan banknotes are seen inside a counter of the Suining City Commercial Bank in Suining, Sichuan province December 7, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China on Friday raised required reserves to a record 19.5 percent, adding to an increasingly aggressive effort by Beijing to stamp out stubbornly high inflation.

Firewall architect admits skirting China barriers (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 07:38 AM PST

This file photo shows a customer surfing Internet at cafe in Beijing. The architect of China's vast Internet censorship system has admitted using software to circumvent the controls -- but only to probe just how secure his widely-criticised creation is.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - The architect of China's "Great Firewall" has admitted using software to circumvent the vast system of Internet censorship -- but only to probe the security of his widely reviled creation.

China delays execution of Philippine drug mules (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 07:36 AM PST

Philippine Vice-President Jejomar Binay (L) arrived in Beijing. China has postponed the execution of three Filipinos found guilty of drug smuggling, the Philippine government said Friday after its vice president met with Chinese leaders in Beijing.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe)AFP - China has postponed the execution of three Filipinos found guilty of drug smuggling, the Philippine government said Friday after its vice president met with Chinese leaders in Beijing.

Doctors remove knife from man's head after 4 years (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 05:12 AM PST

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, Li Fuyan lies on a bed after the head surgery at the People's Hospital in Yuxi in southwest China's Yunnan province. Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday.

China raises bank reserves to curb lending (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 04:02 AM PST

A child looks on while a woman buys vegetables at a market in Beijing Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. China's public is struggling with a monthslong surge in food prices that has defied government efforts to combat inflation with interest rate hikes, price controls and a campaign to boost vegetable and grain output. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China ordered its banks Friday to hold back more money as reserves in a new move to curb lending and cool a spike in inflation.

China property prices rise in Jan despite curbs (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 04:00 AM PST

A woman walks past a constructionsite of a new apartment complex Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 in Shanghai, China. China says newly calculated data show property prices rose in most of its cities in January despite renewed efforts to cool the overheated market, with the biggest increases in smaller cities. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - China says newly calculated data show property prices rose in most of its cities in January despite renewed efforts to cool the overheated market, with the biggest increases in smaller cities.

Instant view: China raises bank reserve requirements (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 03:10 AM PST

Reuters - China's central bank said on Friday that it was raising lenders' required reserves by 50 basispoints, effective Feb 24, its second increase this year.

China automakers' Jan sales to dealers up 16 pct (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 02:52 AM PST

AP - Chinese passenger car sales by manufacturers rose 16 percent in January from a year earlier as dealers restocked following a year-end buying spree, a report said Friday, but automakers already are feeling pressure from weakening demand.

China seeks to calm fears amid new milk safety scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 01:02 AM PST

Reuters - China on Friday sought to calm the public about a new milk safety scandal, saying it had stepped up scrutiny of production after reports that toxins were being added to some dairy goods.

China upholds US geologist's conviction (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 12:09 AM PST

A man rides his scooter past oil rigs in northern China's Hebei Province. Xue Feng, a Chinese-born US citizen working for a private firm, was detained in November 2007 over the sale of a database on China's oil industry when he worked for US energy and engineering consulting firm IHS Inc.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A Beijing court Friday upheld the conviction and eight-year sentence meted out to a Chinese-born American geologist on state secrets charges in a case that has further tested already strained ties.

Philippines VP pursues clemency for 3 in China (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 11:35 PM PST

Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay gestures as he walks to his plane at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines for his departure to Beijing, China Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 to make a last-minute plea to stay the executions next week of three Filipino nationals convicted of drug trafficking. Binay is scheduled to meet with the president of the Supreme People's Court and the Chinese Executive vice foreign minister, according to the foreign affairs department. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - The Philippine vice president met Chinese officials Friday to make a last-ditch appeal for clemency for three Filipinos due to be executed next week for drug trafficking.

Envoy who may aim for White House presses China on rights (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:58 PM PST

U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman speaks to journalists in front of the Beijing High People's Court after an appeal of Xue Feng in Beijing, February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Petar KujundzicReuters - The U.S. ambassador to Beijing, who is sizing up a run for the White House, stood outside a Chinese court on Friday and criticized it for rejecting the appeal of an American jailed on industrial spying charges.

China's Proposed Colombia Railway: Challenging the Panama Canal (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST

Time.com - The proposed "dry canal" that would link the Caribbean to the Pacific (and help bring coal to China) is also a challenge to U.S. dominance in the hemisphere

China on alert for leather protein in milk supply (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:16 PM PST

AP - China has warned dairy producers that inspectors are on alert for fresh milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine and another toxic substance extracted from leather scraps.

China court rejects appeal by jailed US geologist (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:12 PM PST

AP - A Beijing appeals court upheld Friday the eight-year prison sentence given to an American geologist for obtaining information on the Chinese oil industry, dimming hopes for his release in a case that has further strained U.S.-China relations.

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