2011年6月5日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China shops for Latin American oil, food, minerals (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 11:43 AM PDT

AP - Latin America is blessed with a wealth of natural resources such as oil, copper and soy, and seeks investment and loans to capitalize on them. China needs the commodities to keep its economy growing and has about $3 trillion in reserves to burn.

China's growth, and weakness, on show at IT fair (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 11:31 PM PDT

Foreign visitors inspect Chinese products on display at Computex in Taipei on June 3, 2011. More Chinese companies than ever before took part in Asia's largest IT fair, which ended this weekend in Taipei, but their growing numbers could not disguise their lingering weaknesses, observers say.(AFP/Patrick Lin)AFP - More Chinese companies than ever took part in Asia's largest IT fair, which ended this weekend in Taipei, but their growing numbers could not disguise their lingering weaknesses, observers said.


China says its military no threat to peace in Asia (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:15 PM PDT

China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie addresses delegates on the topic of China's International Security Cooperation during the final day of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Securities Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Sunday, June 5, 2011.  (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - The strength of China's armed forces is 20 years behind the U.S. and although the military is developing new capabilities, it is not a threat to peace in Asia, the Chinese defense minister said Sunday.


In China, soaring food prices mean leaner diets (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:31 PM PDT

Customers are seen selecting vegetables at a market in Beijing. China's consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, rose 5.3 percent on year in April driven by increasing food prices -- a slight easing from the previous month but still well above Beijing's four percent target for 2011.(AFP/File/Gou Yige)AFP - Li Ping and her husband, both retirees, pick over the offerings at a Beijing market to prepare traditional dumplings for the Dragon Boat festival. Rocketing food prices are limiting their options.


Chinese VP in Cuba to meet on economic ties (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Cuba on Saturday for a three-day visit expected to accelerate fast-growing economic relations between the two communist-run countries.
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