2011年3月21日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China takes hard line on activists, many missing (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, July 17, 2009 file photo, Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong looks at the half empty office of the Gongmeng rights group's legal research center after it was closed down by Chinese authorities in Beijing, China. The last time the prominent Chinese lawyer Jiang was seen or heard from, he was visiting his brother in a Beijing suburb when police grabbed him and threw him into a waiting van, pushing aside his elderly mother who had clung on to the vehicle. Jiang is among dozens of well-known lawyers and activists across China who have vanished, been interrogated or criminally detained for subversion in recent weeks, in a crackdown that human rights groups say is on a scale and intensity not seen in many years. Activists say China's massive security apparatus is using the government's anxiety over possible Middle East-inspired protests as a pretext for the crackdown. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)AP - The last time the prominent Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong was seen or heard from, he was visiting his brother in a Beijing suburb. Police grabbed him and threw him into a waiting van, pushing aside his elderly mother who had clung on to the vehicle.


Google accuses China of blocking Gmail (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Reuters - Google Inc on Monday accused the Chinese government of making it difficult for Gmail users to access the service in the country, the latest development in a rocky relationship between the two.

China Premier says hopeful on U.S., EU, world economies (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:26 AM PDT

Reuters - China Premier Wen Jiabao said on Monday he was optimistic about the outlook for the U.S., European and world economies.

Beijing targets luxury ads amid wealth gap (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Beijing has banned outdoor advertising that promotes hedonistic or high-end lifestyles as the Chinese government seeks to ease public concerns about the country's widening wealth gap.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's capital has banned outdoor advertising that promotes hedonistic or high-end lifestyles as the government seeks to ease public concerns about the country's widening wealth gap.


Ctrip surfs China's homegrown travel wave (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 09:44 PM PDT

Employees of China-based company Ctrip are pictured at the call center of their headquarters in Shanghai. The one-stop China travel service Ctrip.com specializes in discount hotel reservations, cheap airline tickets and package tours.(AFP/File/Andrew Ross)AFP - A crescendo of voices builds on a typically bustling day in the Shanghai headquarters of Ctrip.com as staff put together hundreds of tourist trips. It is the sound of China's travel boom.


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