2011年4月30日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China frees rights lawyer but another disappears (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:00 PM PDT

China has released human rights lawyer Teng Biao (pictured) after ten weeks in custody but a second lawyer has disappeared, rights groups told AFP Saturday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent.(AFP/DDP/File/MARCUS BRANDT)AFP - China released human rights lawyer Teng Biao after ten weeks in custody but a second lawyer has disappeared, rights groups told AFP Saturday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent.


Beijing turns to currency to cool inflation (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:29 PM 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.


Pro-Ai graffiti in Hong Kong sparks warning by Chinese army (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT

Reuters - A spate of graffiti appearing across Hong Kong in recent weeks in support of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has sparked a warning by the Chinese army garrison in the city, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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