2011年7月31日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China launches 2-month traffic safety campaign (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 05:20 PM PDT

AP - China is launching a two-month national traffic safety campaign after a series of fatal accidents.

Deadly violence hits China's restive Xinjiang (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Ethnic Uighur women pass a Chinese paramilitary police patrol on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region, in 2010. Knife-wielding attackers killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region and another five were shot dead by police as a wave of violence swept the ethnically-torn area, state media and officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Knife-wielding attackers killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region and another five were shot dead by police as a wave of violence swept the ethnically-torn area, state media and officials said Sunday.


China's Sun topples 10-year-old swimming record (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 08:28 AM PDT

China's Sun Yang reacts after competing the final of the men's 1500-metre freestyle swimming in the FINA World Championships in Shanghai on July 31. Sun toppled swimming's oldest world record when he shattered Grant Hackett's 10-year mark in the men's 1500m, ensuring a rousing finish to the Shanghai world championships.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AFP - Chinese teenager Sun Yang toppled swimming's oldest world record Sunday when he shattered Grant Hackett's 10-year mark in the men's 1500m, ensuring a rousing finish to the Shanghai world championships.


China struggles with backlash over rail crash (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT

Candles are lit by family members at the accident scene for victims who died in the July 23 high-speed train crash in Shuangyu, near Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. A week after a deadly high-speed rail crash sparked widespread criticism that China has put its development before public safety, authorities are struggling to contain the anti-government backlash.(AFP)AFP - A week after a deadly high-speed rail crash sparked widespread criticism that China has put its development before public safety, authorities are struggling to contain the anti-government backlash.


11 killed in 2 attacks in troubled NW China (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 07:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, July 10, 2009 file photo, a statue of former leader Mao Zedong is seen as an Uighur man looks on in Kashgar, China. Two knife-wielding men hijacked a truck in China's restive northwest, then rammed the vehicle into a crowd and got out to attack the pedestrians, sparking clashes, a police official said Sunday, July 31, 2011. The attack happened in the Silk Road city of Kashgar in northwest Xinjiang, a region rocked by ethnic violence in recent years. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - Police shot dead four people Sunday in China's far northwest, bringing to 11 the death toll in weekend violence in one of the country's most troubled ethnic regions.


Police kill 4 after blasts, attacks in China's west (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 05:40 AM PDT

Reuters - Police shot dead four "rioters" in China's far west on Sunday after at least three people, including a policeman, were killed in the latest in a series attacks in the region this month, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

China 'forced papers' to scrap rail crash coverage (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Rescue workers are seen close to the wreckage of two high-speed trains that collided close to the town of Shuangyu in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. China imposed a widespread ban on coverage of last week's high-speed train crash, forcing newspapers across the country to scrap pages of stories, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - China imposed a widespread ban on coverage of last week's high-speed train crash, forcing newspapers across the country to scrap pages of stories, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Sunday.


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