2011年5月28日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Culture clash complicates China's Brazil push (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Asian descendants work in a Chinese store in Liberdade neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday May 23, 2011. Chinese companies' direct investment in Brazil jumped to $17 billion last year, nearly 60 times the investment the previous year, according to SOBEET, a Brazilian economic think tank. At the same time, more Chinese companies are hiring local workers rather than following their old practices of bringing in Chinese laborers. That new reality has meant frequent contact between two cultures that hold vastly different expectations about the role of workers, government regulations and unions. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Stocking shelves in a Chinese grocery store, Thiago warned that he didn't want to be caught chatting during working hours. Within seconds, however, the Brazilian unleashed a pent-up flood of complaints about the owners, who lingered just beyond hearing distance.

China reprimands Vietnam over offshore oil exploration (Reuters)

Posted: 28 May 2011 09:42 AM PDT

Reuters - China criticized Vietnam on Saturday for its offshore exploration of oil and gas in the contested South China Sea after Hanoi complained that three Chinese patrol boats had challenged a Vietnamese ship.

China must avoid force in Mongolia: Amnesty (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 04:09 AM PDT

Paramilitary police march past the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, March 2011. Leading rights group Amnesty urged China to avoid a violent crackdown on ethnic Mongolian protesters, who have engaged in five days of protests against Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Leading rights group Amnesty urged China Saturday to avoid a violent crackdown on ethnic Mongolian protesters, who have engaged in five days of protests against Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia.

China police seal off restive Inner Mongolia towns (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 03:44 AM PDT

AP - Police sealed off parts of two county seats in China's Inner Mongolia for a second day Saturday in what residents described as a kind of martial law after protests triggered by the death of a Mongolian herder run over by a Chinese truck driver.

China drought affects more than 34 million people (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 02:11 AM PDT

Dried up bank of the Yangtze River is seen in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The drought on China's Yangtze river has led to historically low water levels that have forced authorities to halt shipping on the nation's longest waterway, according to the government and media.(AFP/File)AFP - A debilitating drought along China's Yangtze river has affected more than 34 million people, leaving farmers and livestock without water and parching a major grain belt, the government said Saturday.

Blast at bus company kills 1 in central China (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:36 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2011 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a damaged vehicle sits at the site of an explosion near the Linchuan district government building in Fuzhou city, east China's Jiangxi Province. Hours after homemade bombs blasted government buildings, some Chinese were quick to glorify the disgruntled bomb-setter — a sign of the bitterness many feel toward the government for chasing growth while neglecting justice. Hundreds of admiring — and some mournful — messages were posted Friday on the blog of Qian Mingqi, a 52-year-old jobless man who authorities say killed himself and two other people when he set off three bombs Thursday in Fuzhou city. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhou Ke, File) NO SALESAP - An explosion at a bus company killed an employee and injured at least two others in central China on Saturday, state media reported, days after a bombing spree in another city rattled the country.

China orders death penalty for food safety crimes (AFP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:03 AM PDT

Local shoppers pass tins of milk powder on sale at a supermarket in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. A wave of food scares in China seems to have prompted harsher penalties as safety problems continue despite government promises to clean up the food industry following a deadly 2008 milk scandal.(AFP/File)AFP - China's top court has ordered capital punishment for food safety crimes that result in fatalities, as the nation battles a wave of scares over tainted foodstuffs.

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