2011年5月30日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's Zhang is acting Asian football chief - Velappan (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:27 AM PDT

China's Zhang Jilong, seen here in April 2011, has temporarily taken charge of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after president Mohamed bin Hammam was suspended over graft claims, a former top official said.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AFP - China's Zhang Jilong has temporarily taken charge of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after president Mohamed bin Hammam was suspended over graft claims, a former top official said Monday.


Protests break calm in China's Inner Mongolia area (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 07:44 AM PDT

In this May 27, 2011, photo released by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, Mongolian Chinese paramilitary police officers scuffle with protesters in Shuluun Huh county of northern China's Inner Mongolia province. Authorities poured more police into the streets and slowed Internet service in several parts of China's Inner Mongolia on Monday, May 30, following days of protests believed to be the largest in the region in 20 years. (AP Photo/Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Calls for justice by Mongols in the resource-rich, prosperous borderland of northern China have shattered the calm there to which Chinese leaders have grown accustomed.


China clamps down on Inner Mongolia to quash demos (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 05:53 AM PDT

Bystanders watch as paramilitary police march on patrol near a vocational school in Xilinhot on May 30, 2011 in Inner Mongolia. Authorities are likely fearful of another major outburst of ethnic turmoil following deadly unrest in Tibet in 2008 and the remote northwestern Xinjiang region in 2009.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's Inner Mongolia was under tight security Monday as authorities guard against possible new protests by ethnic Mongols seething over Chinese rule, AFP journalists and a rights group said.


China hikes electricity rates to counter shortage (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 05:35 AM PDT

AP - China has raised electricity rates for some industrial users as parts of the country face severe power shortages.

China hikes power prices as shortages loom (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 04:20 AM PDT

Reuters - China has raised power prices for industrial, commercial and agricultural users in some regions by about 3 percent in an attempt to ease what threatens to be the worse power shortage in seven years in the world's second-largest economy.

China orders death penalty in deadly food scandals (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 12:06 AM PDT

AP - China's supreme court has ordered judges across the country to issue harsher sentences, including the death penalty, to people convicted of food safety violations as the government struggles to clean up the nation's food supply after repeated scandals.
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