2011年12月2日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


US trade panel to probe solar dispute with China (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:15 PM PST

In this photo taken on Nov. 10, 2011 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a worker fixes a solar panel at a factory in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A group of China's biggest solar energy companies on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 rejected a U.S. trade complaint that they are unfairly supported by the Chinese government and said possible sanctions would hurt American companies and workers. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liang Xiaopeng)  NO SALESAP - A federal trade panel voted Friday to investigate whether Chinese companies are harming the U.S. solar panel industry by dumping low-price products on global markets.


Chinese herb mix may cool hot flashes a bit (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:13 PM PST

Reuters - A mix of certain traditional Chinese herbs thought to have weak estrogen-like activity might help ease menopausal hot flashes, a small clinical trial suggests.

China signals coming shift in measuring CO2 limits (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:11 AM PST

Protestors bury their heads in the sands with flags illustrating different countries during a climate change summit held in the city of Durban, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. At a time of deep concern over global warming, a group of scientists, philosophers and legal scholars examined whether human intervention could artificially cool the Earth and what would happen if it did. A report discussed Friday at the U.N. climate conference in South Africa said that in theory reflecting a small amount of sunlight back into space before it strike's the Earth's surface would have an immediate and dramatic effect. But no one knows what the side effects would be. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - An influential Chinese analyst says his country may adjust how it measures carbon emission targets as early as 2020, bringing it more in line with Western governments and signaling a possible opening in international climate negotiations.


Summary Box: Latest China labor unrest (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:57 AM PST

AP - TROUBLE IN WORKERS' PARADISE: China is seeing a fresh upsurge in labor unrest as slowing demand for its exports in Europe and the U.S. hits manufacturers.

Minister: China wants to invest in US roads, rails (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:47 AM PST

AP - China wants to convert some of its mountain of U.S. government debt into investment in renovating American roads and subways, the commerce minister said Friday.

China's Ordos property bust offers warning sign (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 05:35 AM PST

Reuters - The monumental, neo-Mongolian sculptures, empty plazas and hulking concrete shells of buildings in Ordos district, deep in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, are a potent symbol of how China's property boom can turn to bust.

Chinese students get a taste of Europe work life (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:50 AM PST

Reuters - Shan Jie has been working at the Radisson hotel in central London since July, waitressing in one of the restaurants or setting up for conferences.

Hundreds strike at Singapore-owned plant in China (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:43 AM PST

Reuters - More than 200 workers at a Singapore-owned electronics plant in Shanghai remained on strike for a third day on Friday to denounce what they said was a management plan for mass layoffs, the latest outbreak of labor unrest in China.

Workers mass at Shanghai factory in latest unrest (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:42 AM PST

Workers on strike gather at the factory gate of Hi-P International, a Singaporean company, in Shanghai, China Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Hundreds of workers gathered outside the factory, a supplier to major consumer electronics companies such as Apple, Motorola and HP, in the eastern industrial suburbs of Shanghai for their third day of protesting. The banner, in part, reads: 'Where is the government's credibility?' (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - China is seeing a fresh upsurge in labor unrest as slowing demand for its exports in Europe and the U.S. hits manufacturers already juggling tight credit and weakening growth at home.


Another Tibetan sets himself on fire in protest (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:13 PM PST

AP - A former Buddhist monk in Tibet has been hospitalized after setting himself on fire, the latest in a series of apparent self-immolation protests against Chinese rule, a human rights group said.

Australia government denies backing India, U.S. security pact (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:23 PM PST

Reuters - Australia denied on Friday it was pushing for a joint security pact with India and the United States, a tie-up that would likely add to China's fears that wary neighbors were trying to encircle it.

Coke says child's death in China not linked to product (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:36 PM PST

Reuters - Coca-Cola Co defended on Friday the safety of its yogurt drinks sold in northern China, denying there was any link to the death of a child or the illness of three other people who had consumed the drinks, but said it removed the product from shelves in a precautionary move.
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