2011年4月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China rights lawyer resurfaces after detention (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:37 PM PDT

Artists hold banners including one featuring a portrait of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei during a protest urging for his release, in Hong Kong April 23, 2011.   REUTERS/Tyrone SiuAP - China has released a crusading rights lawyer who disappeared, apparently into police custody, more than two months ago in a massive security crackdown aimed at preventing any Middle East-inspired unrest.


China releases human rights lawyer, another disappears (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:46 PM PDT

China has released human rights lawyer Teng Biao, pictured here in 2007, after 70 days in custody but a second lawyer named Li Fangping has disappeared, rights groups told AFP in statements received early Saturday.(AFP/DDP/File/MARCUS BRANDT)AFP - China released human rights lawyer Teng Biao after 70 days in custody but a second lawyer named Li Fangping has disappeared, rights groups told AFP in statements received Saturday.


China jails 14 for peddling tainted milk powder (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Reuters - Courts in China have jailed 14 people, two of them for life, for selling milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, state media reported on Friday.

China's Direct Investment Abroad Likely to Top $1 Trillion by 2020 (PR Newswire)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:23 PM PDT

PR Newswire - Should We Keep the Door Open?

SEC freezes China Voice assets, cites Ponzi scheme (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT

Reuters - The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it won a court order freezing the assets of China Voice Holding Corp, and accused a co-founder of the telecommunications company of running an $8.6 million Ponzi scheme.

China astronaut calls for U.S. cooperation (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:20 AM PDT

Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong (L) and Yang Liwei answer questions during a media tour of the China Astronaut Centre of Beijing Aerospace City April 29, 2011. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - China's most renowned astronaut said on Friday his country and the United States should make good on their presidents' promises to cooperate in space.


China dissident released after U.S. official's visit (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese authorities released on Friday a prominent human rights lawyer, Teng Biao, whose detention had been denounced by a U.S. official the previous day.

China to attempt first space rendezvous (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 07:08 AM PDT

China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday. Yang Liwei, pictured here in 2003, detailed the next stages of China's human spaceflight programme during a press visit to Space City in Beijing, a research and training centre normally closed to the public.(AFP/File/Boris Cambreleng)AFP - China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday.


China's Wen woos Indonesia with song, loans (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 06:29 AM PDT

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao speaks to journalists during a joint statement with Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (unseen) at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. China has announced $8 billion in loans for infrastructure in Indonesia, during a visit by Wen which included a sing-along with local students.(AFP/Adek Berry)AFP - China announced $8 billion in loans for infrastructure in Indonesia on Friday, during a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao which included a sing-along with local students.


Beijing turns to currency to cool inflation (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2011 file photo, customers line up to get discount vegetables at a supermarket in Beijing, China. Surging inflation that helped trigger protests in Shanghai is prompting China's leaders to turn to a tool they long resisted: Speeding up the rise of the country's tightly controlled currency. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - Surging inflation that helped trigger protests in Shanghai is prompting China's leaders to turn to a tool they long resisted: Speeding up the rise of the country's tightly controlled currency.


China's beaten Pang and Tong vow to skate on (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:05 AM PDT

China's Qing Pang and Jian Tong perform in the pairs free skating event of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow on Thursday. The veterans have vowed to continue competing despite losing their pairs title.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)AFP - Chinese veterans Pang Qing and Tong Jian have vowed to continue competing despite losing their pairs title at the world figure skating championships.


China pushes back after U.S. criticism on rights (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Reuters - China pushed back against U.S. criticism of its human rights situation on Friday following talks on the issue, saying that the Chinese people were "most qualified" to talk on the topic and defending the detention of artist Ai Weiwei.

China manufacturing ruffled by Japan disasters (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:43 PM PDT

AP - Chinese manufacturers added workers but saw scant growth in orders in April amid delays in supplies resulting from Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

China Construction Bank 1Q profit up 34 pct (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:07 PM PDT

AP - State-owned China Construction Bank Ltd., the country's third-biggest commercial lender, says its first quarter profit rose 34 percent from a year earlier, buoyed by higher income from fees and interest.
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