2011年4月24日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Eight trapped in flooded China mine: state media (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

A coal miner waits at the entrance to a mine in China in 2009. A coal mine flooded in southwest China on Sunday evening, trapping eight workers, state media said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A coal mine flooded in southwest China on Sunday evening, trapping eight workers, state media said.


Chinese inflation to ease: government (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:03 AM PDT

A fruit and vegetable shop owner watches for customers on a street in central Beijing March 24, 2011. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - China's inflation will fall slightly in the second half of 2011, but it will be tough to keep the full-year rise in consumer prices below the government's 4 percent ceiling, an official said in remarks reported on Sunday.


Jimmy Carter, other former leaders to visit NKorea (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:12 AM PDT

AP - Ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and three other former leaders arrived in Beijing on Sunday en route to North Korea to discuss the revival of nuclear disarmament talks.

Beijing detains illegal church members on Easter (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:35 AM PDT

Chinese youths detained by police officers from an area where members of a unregistered church planned to hold Easter service are led into a police station in Beijing Sunday, April 24, 2011. Police stopped worshippers from gathering Sunday at a public plaza in the city's university district where they have been trying to meet every week since the congregation was evicted from its usual rented place of worship three weeks ago. At least a dozen congregants were detained. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese police detained at least 30 Christians belonging to an unregistered Beijing church as the congregation gathered Sunday for an Easter service, a church member said.


Global automakers unveil local China brands (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 12:23 AM PDT

AP - Some of the new Chinese cars unveiled at this week's Shanghai Auto Show are affordable for millions of buyers — a happy development for Beijing that might prove costly for the global automakers producing them.

Chinese Christians held at Easter service: church (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 11:42 PM PDT

A police van is seen with officers waiting inside near the location where Chinese Christians from the Shouwang Church were planning to hold an Easter Sunday Mass in Beijing. Up to 30 members of a Chinese evangelical church were arrested on Sunday for trying to hold an Easter service in defiance of the officially atheist government, according to a member of the clergy.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Up to 30 members of a Chinese evangelical church were arrested on Sunday for trying to hold an Easter service in defiance of the officially atheist government, a member of the clergy said.


In China, success is a black Audi A6 (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 11:37 PM PDT

This file photo shows potential buyers getting a closer look at an Audi A6 car, at a showroom in Beijing. Half of the Audi A6s in the world are sold in China, according to research firm Dunne & Co., where black versions with windows tinted darker than welding glass are the car of choice for government officials and company bosses.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - The world's newest cars are on display at the Shanghai auto show, but Xu Xingen came for a classic that is perhaps equated with success and power in China more than any other -- the Audi A6.


Chinese tea farmer finds orphaned 'moon bears' (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 11:27 PM PDT

AP - A farmer in south China found twin black bear cubs alone in a forest while he was out picking tea leaves, state media said. He was planning to raise them until they were big enough to fend for themselves, but an animal welfare group has intervened.

Chinese police detain Christians as dispute spills into Easter (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Members of the Shouwang Church, a Protestant group, sit on a bus after being detained by police near the site of their proposed Easter Sunday gathering at a shopping area in Beijing April 24, 2011. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Chinese police detained dozens of Christians on Sunday who were trying to converge at the site of a banned Easter service.


Fleeing China, couple urge help for Falungong (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 06:47 PM PDT

This 1998 photo shows Falungong members gathering on the banks of a lake at sunrise to meditate and exercise in Jiu Jiang in northern Jiangxi Province of China. China's communist government banned the group in 1999 after thousands of practitioners silently converged in Beijing to air their grievances, showing their organizational might.(AFP/File/Stephen Shaver)AFP - A husband and wife who said they endured years of ill treatment in Chinese camps for practicing Falungong are urging greater global attention to the plight of the spiritual movement.


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