2011年6月12日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China to allow individual travel to Taiwan (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 12:05 PM PDT

Tourists walk past an official tourism advertisment on arrival at Taoyuan airport, northern Taiwan, in April 2011. China will relax a decades-old ban on travel to Taiwan by individuals under a pilot scheme starting June 28, the government said Sunday, responding to growing demand amid a thaw between the two sides.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - China will relax a decades-old ban on travel to Taiwan by individuals under a pilot scheme starting June 28, the government said Sunday, responding to growing demand amid a thaw between the two sides.


More than 170 dead and missing in China floods (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT

A resident looks at damage caused after flood water swept through Linxiang, central China's Hunan province on June 11. Flooding caused by torrential downpours in central and southern China has killed 94 people and left 78 others missing, the government said Sunday, warning of further heavy downpours ahead.(AFP/File)AFP - Flooding caused by torrential downpours in central and southern China has killed 94 people and left 78 others missing, the government said Sunday, warning of further heavy downpours ahead.


Vietnam allows second anti-China protest in Hanoi (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Vietnamese authorities tolerated a second day of anti-China protests in the capital on Sunday as more than 100 people demonstrated against what they see as bullying behavior by Beijing in an escalating dispute over maritime territory.

China lead pollution outbreak poisons 103 children (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 03:41 AM PDT

Reuters - Lead pollution from workshops in eastern China seriously poisoned 103 children and has affected hundreds of other residents in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

Senior Chinese official visits North Korea (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 03:18 AM PDT

AP - A senior Chinese official is meeting with the president of North Korea's parliament in Pyongyang.

More than 600 sickened by lead poisoning in China (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2011 02:29 AM PDT

AP - More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday.

Hundreds of Vietnamese hold anti-China protest (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 11:39 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of Vietnamese staged an anti-China protest Sunday for the second week in a row, a day ahead of the country's planned live ammunition naval drill amid a heated spat over territory in the South China Sea.

China floods death toll hits 94, with 78 missing (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 10:32 PM PDT

AP - China's flood control office says the death toll from heavy rains lashing central and southern China has risen to at least 94, with 78 people missing.

China inflation may top 6 percent in June: expert (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 09:44 PM PDT

Reuters - China's inflation rate may accelerate to more than 6 percent year-on-year in June, which could bring the full-year consumer price index for 2011 to as high as 5 percent, a government researcher said in remarks reported on Sunday.

Police arrest 25 in southern China after clash (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:19 PM PDT

AP - Police said Sunday that 25 people in southern China were arrested after a clash between street vendors and security forces, the second such recent incident highlighting government difficulties controlling widening social unrest.
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