2011年6月26日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China's Wen visits Britain amid release of rights activist (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:17 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech during his visit to the MG motor plant in Birmingham. Wen toured Britain on Sunday and sought to strengthen trade links, as Bejing freed dissident activist Hu Jia in a move seen as defusing tensions over human rights.(AFP/POOL/Phil Noble)AFP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao toured Britain on Sunday and sought to strengthen trade links, as Bejing freed dissident activist Hu Jia in a move seen as defusing tensions over human rights.


China to stimulate domestic demand: Wen (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:11 PM PDT

An MG employee holds Chinese and Union flags during a visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to the MG motor plant in Birmingham, central England June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - China plans to stimulate domestic demand and reduce its foreign trade surplus to encourage balanced trade growth, premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday during the British leg of a visit to Europe.


China hosts Sudan leader wanted by world court (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, pictured in January 2011, is to arrive in China on Monday for a state visit, with rights groups outraged over the warm welcome for a man accused of genocide and war crimes.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to arrive in China on Monday for a state visit, with rights groups outraged over the warm welcome for a man accused of genocide and war crimes.


Chinese premier visits Shakespeare's birthplace (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:17 AM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pauses during a visit to Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, Sunday, June 26, 2011. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is visiting Britain, to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron and visit a Chinese-owned car plant in Birmingham. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson, pool)AP - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, reportedly a big Shakespeare fan, made a pilgrimage to the Bard's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday.


China says it, Vietnam agree talks needed over sea (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:27 AM PDT

AP - China and Vietnam have agreed to settle their dispute over the South China Sea through negotiations, Beijing said Sunday as protesters in Hanoi marched for the fourth straight week to voice their outrage at their country's more powerful neighbor.

Prominent Chinese dissident freed from jail (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:40 AM PDT

Chinese human rights activists Hu Jia (R) and his wife Zeng Jinyan (L) in their apartment on the outskirts of Beijing in 2007. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao toured Britain on Sunday and sought to strengthen trade links, as Bejing freed dissident activist Hu Jia in a move seen as defusing tensions over human rights.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)Reuters - One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family early on Sunday after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail on subversion charges, but he needed rest and was not ready to speak in public, his wife said.


Earthquake in remote Chinese region measures 5.3 (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT

Map locating China's Tibetan-inhabited region of Qingha which has been struck by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake.(AFP/Graphics/null)AFP - A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck China's Tibetan-inhabited region of Qinghai on Sunday afternoon, the US Geological Survey reported, in an area hit by a devastating quake last year.


China, Vietnam vow to cool S. China Sea tensions (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 03:09 AM PDT

Protesters shouting anti-Chinese slogans come into confrontation with a policeman during a march in downtown Hanoi over maritime disputes. China and Vietnam have pledged to resolve the row over the strategic South China Sea, state media said, in a bid to ease tensions that prompted accusations of Chinese bullying in the region.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - China and Vietnam pledged to resolve a row over the strategic South China Sea, state media said Sunday, in a bid to ease tensions that prompted accusations of Chinese bullying in the region.


Earthquake hits China's Yushu again (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:15 AM PDT

Reuters - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a largely Tibetan region in northwest China Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, more than a year after a 7.1 magnitude tremor killed 2,700 people in the same area.

China, Vietnam 'to resolve maritime row' (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 01:58 AM PDT

Protesters shouting anti-Chinese slogans come into confrontation with a policeman during a march in downtown Hanoi over maritime disputes. China and Vietnam have pledged to resolve the row over the strategic South China Sea, state media said, in a bid to ease tensions that prompted accusations of Chinese bullying in the region.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - China and Vietnam have pledged to resolve a row over competing South China Sea territorial claims "peacefully", Chinese media on Sunday quoted both sides saying after tensions spiked over the issue.


U.S., China broach South China Sea in Hawaii talks (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 01:20 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States and China kicked off a new round of consultations on the Asia Pacific region in Hawaii Saturday by broaching the flaring tensions in the South China Sea, a U.S. official said.

China, Vietnam agree to resolve maritime dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 01:17 AM PDT

Reuters - China and Vietnam pledged on Sunday to resolve their maritime dispute through peaceful negotiations, a sign of easing tension over rival claims in the South China Sea which is believed to be rich in oil and gas.

Chinese dissident freed; more surveillance feared (AP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 09:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2007 file photo, Hu Jia, right, and Zeng Jinyan, husband-and-wife activists, pose for a picture at their home in Beijing. Zeng said she visited Hu, who was jailed for sedition more than three years ago, in prison June 20, 2011. Jia was released Sunday, his wife said. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - A prominent Chinese political activist imprisoned for sedition was released Sunday at the end of his more than three-year sentence, his wife said, though his freedom could be limited by continued surveillance.


China releases human rights activist Hu Jia: wife (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 04:35 PM PDT

China has released high-profile human rights activist Hu Jia, pictured here in 2007, after he completed a sentence of more than three years for subversion, his wife said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China has released high-profile human rights activist Hu Jia after he completed a sentence of more than three years for subversion, his wife said on Sunday.


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