2011年9月7日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Romney puts China squarely in presidential race (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:42 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's threat to get tough with Chinese trade practices has moved China from the background to a potentially significant issue in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Top of Chinese wealthy's wish list? To leave China (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:50 AM PDT

In this Aug. 1, 2011 photo, a worker walks inside an office of Beijing Goldlink Go-Abroad Consulting Co., an immigration consulting firm assisting Chinese to immigrate to Canada and the United States, in Beijing. Among the 20,000 Chinese with at least 100 million yuan ($15 million) in individual investment assets, 27 percent have already emigrated and 47 percent are considering it, according to a report by China Merchants Bank and U.S. consultants Bain & Co. published in April. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - Chinese millionaire Su builds skyscrapers in Beijing and is one of the people powering China's economy on its path to becoming the world's biggest.


China's Cabinet orders ConocoPhillips spill probe (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:47 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 3, 2011, a Chinese man holds up oil residue found in his shrimp farm in the coastal Leting county in the Bohai Bay near northern China's Hebei province.  China's oceanic agency has ordered ConocoPhillips China to do more to prevent and clean up offshore spills that occurred June 4 and June 17, 2011 in the Bohai Bay that have raised an outcry among fishermen and environmentalists. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - China's top leaders have ordered an investigation into oil spills in China's Bohai Bay that have drawn intense criticism from marine authorities and environmentalists, adding to pressures on oil field operator ConocoPhillips.


Heavy equipment tycoon tops China rich list (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2007 file photo, Liang Wengen, right, chairman of Sany Heavy Industry Co., speaks to the media via an interpreter, left, during a ceremony at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., announcing the Chinese manufacturer has selected Peachtree City, Ga., for its North American headquarters bringing 200 jobs to the metro Atlanta area. The Hurun Rich List 2010, China's equivalent of the Forbes list, announded Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, said Liang, 55, leads the country's fast-growing ranks of super-wealthy. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)AP - China's construction boom has propelled a maker of pile drivers and other heavy machinery to the top of the country's rich list.


Starbucks to triple outlets in China by 2015: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:49 PM PDT

Reuters - Starbucks Corp plans to triple the number of coffee outlets it runs in China over the next four years, the Associated Press reported.
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