2011年7月20日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China tells Tibet monks to 'break with separatists' (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:15 AM PDT

Xi Jinping, the man widely expected to be China's next president, pictured in March 2011, on Wednesday urged monks in Tibet to AFP - The man widely expected to be China's next president on Wednesday urged monks in Tibet to "break with separatist forces" during a visit marking 60 years since China took control of the restive region.


China's CNOOC to buy Canadian oil sands developer (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 06:20 AM PDT

The CNOOC global headquarters in Beijing. Chinese oil giant CNOOC has agreed to take over Canadian oil sands developer OPTI for about $2.1 billion, the companies said Wednesday, as China moves to secure more resources in North America.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese oil giant CNOOC has agreed to take over Canadian oil sands developer OPTI for about $2.1 billion, the companies said Wednesday, as China moves to secure more resources in North America.


Filipino lawmakers visit disputed isle, defy China (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT

AP - A group of Filipino lawmakers flew Wednesday to a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea to assert their country's claim to the potentially oil-rich region in defiance of China's protest that the visit threatens regional stability.

China says 14 extremists killed in Xinjiang attack (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 04:28 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 18, 2011, armed policemen try to arrest rioters and rescue hostages at a police station in Hotan city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Chinese state media said Wednesday, July 20, 2011, that 14 of 18 attackers were shot dead after storming the police station. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - Ethnic religious extremists armed with homemade weapons attacked a police station in China's restive far west earlier this week in a planned siege that ended with 14 of the 18 attackers dead, China said Wednesday in a new detailed account of the violence.


China raises death toll to 18 in Xinjiang violence (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 02:55 AM PDT

Reuters - China on Wednesday raised the death toll to 18 from a clash at a police station in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, saying that 14 "rioters" died along with two policemen and two hostages in the worst violence there in a year.

China urges U.S. to boost confidence in debt, dollar (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 01:07 AM PDT

Reuters - China pressed the United States to take "responsible" measures to boost market confidence in the dollar and U.S. government debt on Wednesday, underscoring investor worries that Washington could default on its debt.

Clash in China's Xinjiang killed 20: exile group (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 07:56 PM PDT

Police stand guard on the streets of Hotan in northwest China's Xinjiang region in 2006. Twenty protesters from China's minority Uighur community were killed in a clash with police in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Uighur exile group said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Twenty protesters from China's minority Uighur community were killed in a clash with police in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Uighur exile group said Tuesday.


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