2011年11月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Humiliated by West, Belarus turns to China rating agency (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:48 AM PST

A man walks past a board displaying currency rates outside a bank in the capital Minsk, Belarus, October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Vasily FedosenkoReuters - After being repeatedly downgraded by Western rating agencies, economically straightened Belarus signed a deal on Tuesday with China's Dagong Global Credit Rating Co Ltd hoping to seek a more generous assessment of its sovereign debt.


Dalai Lama makes low-key visit to Mongolia (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 02:42 AM PST

The Dalai Lama, center left of men in black suits, leaves a wrestling palace in Ulan Bator in Mongolia, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. China protested Mongolia's decision to allow a visit by the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, the Chinese government said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ganbat Namjilsangarav)AP - The Dalai Lama began a series of lectures to Buddhists in Mongolia on Tuesday in a low-key visit which nonetheless drew a protest from neighboring China.


China tells Iran to show flexibility and sincerity (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:42 AM PST

AP - Iran needs to show "flexibility and sincerity" over its nuclear program, China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, as tensions rise ahead of the release of a new report on its atomic activities by a U.N. agency.

China rejects U.S. charges of bogus weapons parts (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:22 AM PST

U.S. Air Force helicopters over Iraq in a September 2007 photo. REUTERS/Aaron Allmon/U.S. Air ForceReuters - China on Tuesday rejected charges by two key U.S. senators that Beijing was failing to control a flood of counterfeit parts installed on U.S. weapons systems.


China calls on Japan to quickly resolve fishing boat incident (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:59 AM PST

Reuters - China called on Tokyo on Tuesday to quickly and appropriately resolve the arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain who refused to heed a coast guard inspection order in Japan's territorial waters.

Gloomy outlook for China exporters as factory closure wave looms (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:01 AM PST

Reuters - Up to a third of Hong Kong's 50,000 or so factories in China could downsize or shut by the end of the year as exporters get hit by cost rises and darkening global demand for Chinese goods, a major Hong Kong industrial body said on Tuesday.
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