2011年3月8日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

US concerned over disappearance of Chinese activists (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:51 PM PST

Police are seen at Wangfujing, Beijing's main shopping street in February 2011. The United States expressed concern Tuesday over the disappearance of prominent Chinese lawyers and activists in China.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - The United States expressed concern Tuesday over the disappearance of prominent Chinese lawyers and activists in China.

U.S. urges China to halt detention of activists (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 12:46 PM PST

Padma Choling, the Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet, speaks during a meeting between the Tibetan provincial delegation and representatives from the National People's Congress (NPC) in the Tibet Room at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 7, 2011. Choling said that Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, does not have a right to choose his successor any way he wants and must follow the historical and religious tradition of reincarnation, underscoring China's hardline stance on one of the most sensitive issues for the restless and remote region. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)Reuters - The United States has urged China to stop what it called the "extralegal" detention and abduction of leading lawyers and human rights activists, the State Department said Tuesday.

China's Panchen Lama says Tibetans are 'free' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 08:43 AM PST

China's controversial choice as the Panchen Lama, pictured here in 2009, said Tuesday that Tibetans had never been freer, just days ahead of the third anniversary of anti-government riots in the Himalayan region.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China's controversial choice as the Panchen Lama said Tuesday that Tibetans had never been freer, just days ahead of the third anniversary of anti-government riots in the Himalayan region.

China stakes claim on disputed islands after spats (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 07:31 AM PST

A map showing the disputed Spratly and Parcel islands in the South China Sea. China on Tuesday reiterated its claim over disputed islands in the South China Sea after the Philippines and Vietnam protested to Beijing over its naval activity in contested waters.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - China on Tuesday reiterated its claim over disputed islands in the South China Sea after the Philippines and Vietnam protested to Beijing over its naval activity in contested waters.

China says trade surplus should shrink this year (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 05:40 AM PST

AP - China's imports will rise and its politically volatile trade surplus should shrink this year as Beijing builds up a consumer-based economy to reduce reliance on trade, the commerce minister said Monday.

Boeing wins hefty plane deals in China (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 03:13 AM PST

A man walks past a model of a Boeing 787-8 at the aerospace exhibition in Hong Kong on March 8, 2011. US aviation giant Boeing has scored multi-billion-dollar deals with China-based airlines in a boost to both its next-generation jumbo jet and to its troubled Dreamliner programme.(AFP/Mike Clarke)AFP - US aviation giant Boeing scored multi-billion-dollar deals with China-based airlines on Tuesday in a boost to both its next-generation jumbo jet and to its troubled Dreamliner programme.

Chinese official touts softer line on restive west (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:54 AM PST

Zhang Chunxian, Communist Party chief of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, center, is mobbed by journalists after a briefing for the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Zhang, 58, was appointed Xinjiang Party chief in April last year, about nine months after the deadly riot rocked the region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The new Communist Party chief for China's restive western region debuted a softer line on the remote area Tuesday, calling for less discrimination against its largely Muslim population and more initiatives to help win their trust and support.

Chinese farmers moved into apartments in land grab (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 02:35 AM PST

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 half completed apartment blocks are seen near an abandoned homestead at the Damazizhuang village in northern China's Hebei province. As China tries to protect farmland from development, officials are going after the land underneath farmers' homes instead. The relocations, often forced and at compensation levels deemed unfair, are raising tensions in a countryside already straining from protests over official misdeeds. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - First, the taps ran dry. Now, Sun Yueming wonders when the electricity will be cut.

China's Xinjiang 'still ethnically divided' (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:38 PM PST

A girl hands money to a Muslim ethnic Uighur mother begging for her sick daughter on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region in 2010. China's traditionally Muslim Xinjiang region remains ethnically divided but is basically stable nearly two years after the eruption of deadly violence there, the region's top official said Tuesday.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - China's traditionally Muslim Xinjiang region remains ethnically divided but is basically stable nearly two years after the eruption of deadly violence there, the region's top official said Tuesday.

SW China mega-city building huge security system (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:29 PM PST

People walk under the gaze of a Chinese police close circuit cameras. The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.(AFP/File)AFP - The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.

Air China to buy five of Boeing's new 747s (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 09:56 PM PST

Air China planes are seen at Beijing Capital airport. The airline has said it had agreed to buy five Boeing passenger planes with a combined list price of $1.54 billion as it expands its fleet to meet growing demand.(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - Air China said Tuesday it had agreed to buy five of Boeing's new 747-8 passenger planes with a combined list price of $1.54 billion, as it expands its fleet to meet growing demand.

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