2011年10月20日星期四

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Chinese court rejects activist appeal for protest (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:02 AM PDT

Qi Jianxiang, son of an activist Wang Lihong, uses his mobile phone to record video footage of a policeman filming him while he talks to the journalists after attending his mother's court appeal case in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of Wang for creating a disturbance when she helped lead a protest on behalf of three bloggers accused of slander. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - A Chinese court has rejected an activist's appeal of her nine-month jail term for staging a noisy protest.


China to allow trial use of local government bonds (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:15 AM PDT

AP - China has given the go-ahead for several local authorities to sell bonds as it moves to bridge financing shortfalls and prevent debt defaults by overextended provincial governments.

China says to get tough after Tibetan burnings (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:49 AM PDT

Tibetan monks pray during a candlelight protest march in New Delhi October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan SharmaReuters - China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday the government of a restive, heavily Tibetan part of the country would take tough measures to ensure stability after a spate of self-immolations in protest at Chinese controls.


Ma: Any peace treaty with China may need vote (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:35 AM PDT

AP - Taiwan's president said Thursday that voters on the island may need to weigh in on any future peace treaty with China, a statement that appears to signal a retreat from an earlier declaration on the treaty idea.

US complains to China about Tibetan suicides (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT

AP - The United States is complaining to China about conditions that are reported to have led eight Tibetan Buddhist monks and one nun to burn themselves to death in China's Sichuan province.
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