2011年10月23日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Police arrest 2 drivers in Chinese girl's death (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 06:57 AM PDT

AP - Police formally arrested two drivers suspected of running over a toddler who died a week after she was struck on a busy market street in southern China and was ignored by passers-by, newspapers reported Sunday.

U.S. lauds China's measured response to Taiwan arms (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday lauded China for its measured reaction to the latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, which has triggered harsh words from Beijing but, at least so far, apparently nothing else.

Tibetan monk's suicide try seen in leaked video (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 02:24 AM PDT

In this image made off amateur video filmed on Sept. 26, 2011 according to the source, and made available via APTN on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, armed policemen watch a man, believed to be teenage monk Lobsang Konchok, lying on the road after he tried to set himself on fire at the Kirti Monastery in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture, China. Aba has been the scene of numerous protests over the past several years against the Chinese government. Most are led by monks who are fiercely loyal to Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled the Himalayan region in 1959 amid an abortive uprising against the Chinese rule and is reviled by Beijing. (AP Photo/Amateur video via APTN) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A teenage Tibetan monk lies partially clothed on the street, his lower legs smoking from setting himself on fire, in a video leaked out of China by exiles who say it was one of several self-immolations in protest of Chinese rule over the region.


China says trade with NKorea has nearly doubled (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 01:46 AM PDT

AP - China's trade with its close ally North Korea nearly doubled in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 2010, state media reported Sunday.

China's Wen says jobs a priority despite economic headwinds (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:56 PM PDT

Reuters - China will make job creation a more urgent priority in the face of slowed economic growth and weakened exports, Premier Wen Jibao said in comments published on Sunday, also warning that efforts to tame housing prices were at a critical point.
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