2011年7月7日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 04:12 PM PDT

Reuters - China's Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington "appropriately dealt" with Tibet-related issues.

China fires officials, charges 11 over riots: state media (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:20 PM PDT

Riot police patrol deserted streets after several days of rioting in Zengcheng in June 2011. China has fired officials including a local Communist Party secretary and charged 11 people over rioting in the country's southern industrial heartland in June, state media reported Thursday.(AFP/File)AFP - China has fired officials including a local Communist Party secretary and charged 11 people over rioting in the country's southern industrial heartland in June, state media reported Thursday.


TV report of China leader's death fuels political rumor mill (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:05 AM PDT

A security guard stands next to a portrait of China's former President Jiang Zemin at an exhibition to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - Chinese state media denied rum ours on Thursday that former president Jiang Zemin had died after a Hong Kong television station said he had, sparking a wave of speculation about a leadership transition due next year.


China dismisses reports Jiang has died (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 07:13 AM PDT

China's official media says reports claiming former president Jiang Zemin, seen here in 2002, had died are AFP - China's official media said Thursday that reports claiming former president Jiang Zemin had died were "pure rumour", after days of intense speculation about his health.


Nearly 70 trapped, eight dead in China coal mines (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Chinese miners prepare for a rescue operation in June 2011. Nearly 70 miners are still trapped underground and at least eight have died in a spate of mining accidents that have jolted China's dangerous mine industry in recent days.(AFP/File)AFP - Nearly 70 miners were trapped underground and at least eight have died in a spate of mining accidents that have jolted China's dangerous mine industry in recent days, state media reported Thursday.


China state media dismiss reports of Jiang's death (AP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 03:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2008 file picture, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin waves during the opening ceremonies for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Rumors that the retired Chinese leader was dead or dying raced through China's Internet on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, sending censors into overdrive to excise them and in turn spurring people to craft ever more cryptic and inventive postings. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - China on Thursday dismissed as rumor reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.


Exclusive: China may cut spending on strategic industries (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 02:38 AM PDT

Reuters - China may rein in plans to invest heavily in seven new strategic industries, including high speed rail and wind power, scaling back cutting-edge projects for industries suffering from old-fashioned problems such as corruption and overcapacity, sources said.

Beijing halts sales of tainted bottled water (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:55 AM PDT

Photo illustration of Chinese soldiers carrying water bottles in Beijing. Authorities in Beijing have halted the sale of 31 brands of bottled water after they failed safety tests, the government reported, in the latest such scare to hit China.(AFP/Illustration/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Authorities in Beijing have halted the sale of 31 brands of bottled water after they failed safety tests, the government reported, in the latest such scare to hit China.


China vows to clean up local government debt (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:43 PM PDT

A construction worker blocks out the sun in Hefei, eastern China. Excessive borrowing by authorities in the country to fund infrastructure and other projects has sparked concerns among China's leadership about the risks the loans pose to the financial stability of the world's second-largest economy.(AFP/File)AFP - China said it is looking into ways to regulate local government borrowing after ratings agency Moody's said the proportion of bad loans could be higher than previously thought.


Rescuers at China mine offered huge reward (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT

Rescuers move in to search for trapped miners in Heshan city in the southern region of Guangxi on July 3, 2011. Rescuers have been offered two million yuan ($310,000) for each worker they pull out alive from a colliery that collapsed at the weekend, state media reported.(AFP)AFP - Rescuers at a mine in southern China have been offered two million yuan ($310,000) for each worker they pull out alive from a colliery that collapsed at the weekend, state media reported.


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