2011年6月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China's Communists celebrate 90th birthday (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:47 PM PDT

A conductor leads the military band during a rehearsal at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2011. China on Friday marks the 90th birthday of its ruling Communist Party, which first emerged as a tiny grouping of intellectuals and now presides over the world's second-largest economy.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China on Friday marks the 90th birthday of its ruling Communist Party, which first emerged as a tiny grouping of intellectuals and now presides over the world's second-largest economy.

UN: China should arrest al-Bashir (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:42 AM PDT

South African Navanethem Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Pillay told reporters she was 'disappointed' that China welcomed Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir during a visit this week, rather than arrest him to ensure he stands trial. She said that 'the whole world favors trial' for al-Bashir for his role in the civil war in Sudan that killed more than 2 million people. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUTAP - The U.N.'s top human rights official criticized China on Thursday for failing to arrest Sudan's president so that he can be brought to trial on war crimes charges.

Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train makes debut (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT

A high-speed train prepares to leave Beijing railway station for a trial run to Shanghai. The transport link connecting China's two main cities make their commercial debut Thursday -- a step seen as vital to ease pressures on the country's overloaded transport system.(AFP/File)AFP - High-speed trains linking Beijing and Shanghai made their passenger debut Thursday on a $33 billion track China hopes will help ease its overloaded transport system.

China detains Vatican-backed Catholic priest (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:54 AM PDT

Chinese Catholics attend a mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. Chinese police have detained a Vatican-backed Catholic priest and blocked his ordination as a bishop, a parishioner said, in a move likely to raise tensions with the Holy See.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese police detained a Vatican-backed Catholic priest and blocked his ordination as a bishop, a parishioner said Thursday, in a move likely to raise tensions with the Holy See.

U.S. caught China buying more debt than disclosed (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:44 AM PDT

Reuters - The rules of Treasury auctions may not sound like the stuff of high-stakes diplomacy. But a little-noticed 2009 change in how Washington sells its debt sheds new light on America's delicate balancing act with its biggest creditor, China.

China opens world's longest sea bridge — 26 miles (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:40 AM PDT

This photo taken Wednesday, June 29, 2011 released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. China opened Thursday, June 30, 2011, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, which is 42 kilometers (26 miles) long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yan Runbo) NO SALESAP - China has opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge.

Philippine president to visit China amid sea rift (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:25 AM PDT

AP - President Benigno Aquino III plans to visit China in coming weeks but the friendly gesture doesn't mean the Philippines is backing down from its assertions Chinese forces intruded in its waters, an official said.

China eases tax burden on poor with law change (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:49 AM PDT

Chinese people walks on a pavement along a wall decorated with pictures of tourist spots in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 30, 2011. China's legislature has taken a step to ease the tax burden on the country's poor amid tensions over surging inflation and a wealth gap. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress approved a measure Thursday to raise the minimum income level at which workers must pay taxes from 2,000 yuan (US$300) to 3,500 yuan (US$540) a month. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China's legislature raised the threshold for paying income tax, effectively exempting tens of millions of workers in a new effort Thursday to defuse tensions over surging inflation and a yawning wealth gap.

UN rights chief slams China's failure to arrest Bashir (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT

Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir (L) and Chinese President Hu Jintao attend a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 29, 2011. The UN rights chief expressed disappointment Thursday that China failed to arrest Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges, during his visit to Beijing.(AFP/POOL/Liu Jin)AFP - The UN rights chief expressed disappointment Thursday that China failed to arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges, during his visit to Beijing.

China eases government procurement rules after U.S. pressure (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:29 AM PDT

Reuters - China will drop some of the "indigenous innovation" rules for government purchases that have riled foreign companies, the Ministry of Finance announced, a step a U.S. business group called an important concession.

China's Mongolian herders protest over lead mine (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:38 AM PDT

AP - Ethnic Mongolian herders protested a lead mine operating on grazing land in the latest tension in a Chinese border region that recently saw its biggest demonstrations in two decades, a rights group and a local resident said Thursday.

Reclusive painter keeps Mao spirit alive on Tiananmen (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:25 AM PDT

Reuters - Reclusive Chinese painter Ge Xiaoguang's art has gazed over one of the world's most famous city squares for decades.

China cracking down on rights lawyers: Amnesty (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:00 AM PDT

File photo shows a group of protestors, including a lawyers concern group, demanding the release of human rights lawyers in China. Beijing has unleashed an AFP - Beijing has unleashed an "uncompromising" assault on China's legal profession, targeting human rights lawyers in an effort to head off social unrest, Amnesty International said Thursday.

Amnesty Int'l: China crackdown on lawyers expands (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, ponders during an interview in Beijing. Chinese authorities are increasingly resorting to attacks, detentions and enforced disappearances in a crackdown on activist lawyers that has worsened this year amid government efforts to prevent the growth of an Arab-style protest movement, a rights group said Thursday, June 30, 2011. One of the most high-profile targets of the crackdown on rights lawyers over the past few years is Gao, a charismatic and pugnacious lawyer who represented religious dissenters and advocated constitutional reform. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)AP - Chinese authorities are increasingly resorting to attacks and secret detentions in a crackdown on activist lawyers that has worsened this year amid government efforts to prevent the growth of an Arab-style protest movement, a rights group said Thursday.

China's Buffett-backed BYD shares surge on debut (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2011, file photo, models walk by BYD's G6 sedan on display at the Shanghai International Auto Show in Shanghai, China. Chinese auto and battery maker BYD Co. said Wednesday June 29, 2011, its profit fell 84 percent in the first quarter, mainly due to a slowdown in car sales and rising costs. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - Shares in Chinese auto and battery maker BYD Co. jumped 41 percent in their debut on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Thursday, despite news that the company's profit fell by 84 percent in the first quarter.

China objects to France arming Libyan opposition (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:12 AM PDT

AP - China objected Thursday to France's arming of Libyan civilians under attack from government forces, saying that the international community should work toward a peaceful end to Libya's conflict.

Chinese Mongolians protest again, herders beaten: rights group (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese police beat up and detained ethnic Mongolian herders who protested over the weekend against pollution caused by a lead mine, an overseas rights group said on Thursday, in the latest unrest to strike China's remote Inner Mongolia.

China says navy drills not linked to sea disputes (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Photo illustration of People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy sailors. China has said a series of recent naval drills are AFP - China has said a series of recent naval drills are "routine" and unrelated to simmering tensions in the South China Sea involving a range of nations with competing territorial claims.

Chongqing -- China's inland business capital (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:56 PM PDT

The Chaotian dock along the Yangtze river in China's southwestern city of Chongqing. After just a few years of explosive growth, China's mega-city of Chongqing has emerged as a major industrial hub, thanks in part to a AFP - After just a few years of explosive growth, China's mega-city of Chongqing has emerged as a major industrial hub, thanks in part to a "Go West" policy to open up China's less-developed inland.

Rights lawyers in China harassed, tortured: Amnesty (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:29 PM PDT

Reuters - Human rights group Amnesty International called on Thursday for China to stop the harassment, arbitrary detention and torture of human rights lawyers, part of what it said was an "uncompromising" series of steps to rein in activists.

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