2011年9月18日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Exclusive: China company structure under threat (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:16 AM PDT

An employee walks past the Baidu company signage outside its headquarters in Beijing, July 26, 2011. REUTERS/Soo Hoo ZheyangReuters - China's securities regulator is asking the government to clamp down on the controversial corporate structure used by companies such as Sina and Baidu to list overseas, and employed in thousands of other investments by foreigners into domestic Chinese companies, four legal sources told Reuters.


China landslide buries small factories, killing 10 (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 05:07 AM PDT

AP - Official media say a landslide caused by heavy rain plowed into two small factories in northwestern China, killing at least 10 people and leaving 22 others missing.

China charms Europe, but Beijing has own agenda (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 02:16 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 file photo Chinese President Hu Jintao, center, talks to a member of the Portuguese National Republican Guard after he fell off his horse during a ceremony outside Lisbon's Jeronimos Monastery, during Jintao's state visit to Portugal. The public display of compassion was in keeping with with China's European charm offensive in recent years. It has waved its checkbook at a growing number of financially ailing European countries — although the actual impact on Europe's debt-stricken countries has been limited so far, and aimed mainly at winning friends and business contracts. (AP Photo/ Francisco Seco, file)AP - When a nervous horse unseated its cavalry officer at a red-carpet event during Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to Portugal last year, the leader of the world's second-largest economy broke with protocol and walked over to the bruised guardsman.


Over 500 villagers protest China factory pollution (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of villagers in eastern China have been demonstrating against pollution they say is caused by a solar panel factory. Some protesters have stormed the compound and overturned vehicles.

China's growing might adds urgency to Taiwan arms calls (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:43 PM PDT

Reuters - China's growing military strength, from stealth jets to aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles, has shifted the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait to Beijing's advantage, and this will not be materially affected by an imminent arms deal with Taiwan.
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