2011年6月23日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

New China-Vatican row brewing over bishops (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT

AP - China's state-controlled Catholic church says it will move swiftly to appoint new bishops in dioceses where there are none, in a step that is certain to worsen tensions with the Vatican.

Chrysler eyeing China production through Fiat JV (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Chrysler Group LLC is "aggressively" exploring the possibility of building more vehicles in China, where the company is on track to sell 40,000 cars and trucks this year, an executive said on Thursday.

Clinton says U.S. opposes threats in South China Sea (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday the United States was concerned that recent events in the South China Sea could undermine stability and opposed any threat of force to advance territorial claims.

Four jailed for touting tainted milk in China (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Four people were sentenced to prison on Thursday for producing and selling melamine-tainted milk powder in north China's Hebei Province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

China artist Ai freed but confined to Beijing (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, seen here in 2010, is not permitted to leave Beijing AFP - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is not permitted to leave Beijing "without permission", authorities said Thursday after his release from nearly three months of detention that triggered an international outcry.

Chinese warships cross high seas off Japan island (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Chinese Navy Sovremenny-Class destroyer DDG 138 Taizhou sails through the high seas between Okinawa and Miyako islands into the East China Sea Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday 11 Chinese warships were spotted in international waters off the country's southern island of Okinawa. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday 11 Chinese warships were spotted in international waters off the country's southern island of Okinawa.

China pushing for end to renewed violence in Sudan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:22 AM PDT

AP - China is pressing both sides in Sudan to end renewed violence that is threatening a landmark peace agreement, Beijing's special envoy for African affairs said Thursday.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Free in body, not voice (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:55 AM PDT

Activist artist Ai Weiwei gestures while speaking to journalists gathered outside his home in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Ai, the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists in China, has returned home late Wednesday after nearly three months in detention. The official Xinhua News Agency said Ai confessed to tax evasion, accusations his family had long denied and which activists had denounced as a false premise for detaining him. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Outspoken artist and government critic Ai Weiwei talked about giving himself a haircut Thursday but said little else in his first day out of detention, living under a gag order that underscores concerns about China's growing use of extralegal methods to muzzle dissent.

Sudan's Bashir likely keen to ease China investment (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Sudan's war crime-indicted president will seek to soothe his most powerful ally's worries about its investments when he visits China next week, days before Sudan's oil-rich south splits from the north.

Analysis: China economy resilient, for now (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:54 AM PDT

A worker walks past a residential construction site in Beijing June 23, 2011. REUTERS/Soo Hoo ZheyangReuters - China's growth is slowing under the weight of Beijing's anti-inflation campaign and weaker global demand, but any investors betting on a hard landing would be underestimating the resilience of the world's second-largest economy.

Hong Kong scholar freed after China cuts sentence (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:57 AM PDT

AP - A historian jailed in China for leaking military secrets — reportedly from books about the Korean War — was released two years early Thursday in what a rights group said was an increasingly rare act of clemency for a political prisoner there.

China says artist Ai still being probed for suspected crimes (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 02:22 AM PDT

Reuters - China said on Thursday dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who was abruptly released after more than two months in detention, is still under investigation for suspected crimes, suggesting Beijing will keep up the pressure to stop him from speaking out.

China artist Ai Weiwei stays quiet after freed on bail (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:54 PM PDT

Reuters - The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose detention in April ignited an international uproar, was released on bail Wednesday under conditions likely to keep the outspoken critic of Communist Party controls silent for now.

China, Vietnam hold joint sea patrols: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

This picture, released by Vietnam News Agency, shows Vietnamese sailors during a training on Phan Vinh Island in the Spratly archipelago. China and Vietnam conducted two days of joint naval patrols earlier this week in the Gulf of Tonkin, the defence ministry in Beijing has said, amid tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea.(AFP/HO/File/Vietnam News Agency)AFP - China and Vietnam conducted two days of joint naval patrols earlier this week in the Gulf of Tonkin, the defence ministry in Beijing has said, amid tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Analysis: China's railway boom hurtles into the red (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:40 PM PDT

A resident rides a tricycle past the head of a CRH (China Railway High-speed) Harmony bullet train outside an exhibition for the Seventh World Congress on High Speed Rail in Beijing December 7, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - The numbers for China's relentless push for a high-speed rail network are impressive -- in terms of debt, not passengers.

Ai Weiwei: 'I'm very happy to be free' (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:31 PM PDT

Outspoken Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (pictured in 2010) said he was AFP - Outspoken Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei said he was "very happy to be free" on bail after more than two months in police custody during a major government crackdown on dissent.

Manila: US obliged to defend Filipinos in Spratlys (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:05 PM PDT

AP - U.S. forces are obliged to help defend Filipino troops, ships or aircraft under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty if they come under attack in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said, citing past American assurances.

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