2011年5月29日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Wal-Mart replaces executives in China (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it named replacements for two of its top executives in China who resigned earlier this month.

Chinese e-commerce giant opens furniture showroom (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT

In this Friday May 27, 2011, photo, a computer screen display various furniture items with selling price while Chinese shop inside the newly opened Taobao Mall in Beijing, China. China's e-commerce giant is stepping up its heated rivalry with bricks-and-mortar retailers with the launch of a five-story home furnishings showroom in Beijing. Alibaba Group's Taobao, an Internet platform through which an estimated 3 percent of all retail sales in China pass, opened the showroom Friday for customers to try out sofas, tables and other big-ticket items before placing an order with one of its merchants. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China's e-commerce giant is stepping up its heated rivalry with bricks-and-mortar retailers with the launch of a five-story home furnishings showroom in Beijing.

China hits back at Vietnam over territorial spat (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:37 AM PDT

Fishermen maintain fishing boats on a beach in the central costal city of Da Nang, Vietnam, in 2010. China has hit back at claims it violated Vietnam's marine sovereignty in a new spat over disputed areas of the South China Sea, accusing Hanoi of harming Beijing's interests in the region.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - China has hit back at claims it violated Vietnam's marine sovereignty in a new spat over disputed areas of the South China Sea, accusing Hanoi of harming Beijing's interests in the region.

China tightens grip on Inner Mongolia before planned (Reuters)

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:36 AM PDT

Reuters - Security forces sealed off parts of the capital of China's vast northern region of Inner Mongolia on Sunday to prevent residents from staging a planned mass protest after the hit-and-run death of a herder sparked six days of protests by ethnic Mongolians.

More demos planned in China's Inner Mongolia (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 05:12 AM PDT

Map locating China's Inner Mongolia province. Security is tight in several areas of northern China rocked by protests by ethnic Mongols, as authorities appear to clamp down on online communications, residents and a rights group have said.(AFP/AFP/Graphics)AFP - Ethnic Mongols are planning more protests in an area of northern China already rocked by unrest, a rights group said Sunday, after the region's leader tried to address simmering anger over Chinese rule.

Chinese official vows justice for Mongolian death (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT

AP - A senior official has promised students and teachers in Inner Mongolia that authorities will get justice for an ethnic Mongolian herder run over by a Chinese truck driver — a bid to assuage anger in the far-flung Chinese region after the death sparked unrest this week.

China to step up fight against plastic addiction (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:36 AM PDT

China will expand a ban on free shopping bags, state media said, as it tries to further curb its addiction to plastic in a bid to rid the country of AFP - China will expand a ban on free shopping bags, state media said, as it tries to further curb its addiction to plastic in a bid to rid the country of "white pollution" that clogs waterways, farms and fields.

3 killed, 8 injured in China chemical plant blast (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 10:04 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say a blast at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed three people and injured eight others.

Culture clash complicates China's Brazil push (AP)

Posted: 28 May 2011 09:00 PM 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.

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