2011年12月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Summary Box: China's thin error margin on property (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:37 AM PST

AP - TOO HEAVY A HAND? As economic growth wanes, Beijing has begun easing tight credit policies meant to cool inflation but China's leaders are insisting there is no leeway for loosening curbs on the housing sector. There are concerns that the campaign to cool overheated housing prices may go too far.

China eases grip on blind Chinese activist: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:48 AM PST

Reuters - China has eased some restrictions on a blind legal activist whose smothering, secretive detention in his village has become the focus of protests at home and condemnation abroad, sources close to his family said.

China's thin margin for error in property policies (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:26 AM PST

In this Nov. 30, 2011 photo, tower cranes are placed at a construction site of newly developed apartment complex in Shanghai, China. As economic growth wanes, Beijing has begun easing tight credit policies meant to cool inflation but China's leaders are also insisting there is no leeway for loosening curbs on the housing sector. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - China's attempts to deflate its property bubble come at a perilous time.


Shougang invests in $573M Malaysian steel mill (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST

AP - China Shougang Group has tied up with Malaysia's Hiap Teck to build a 1.8 billion ringgit ($573 million) steel mill, its first such investment outside of China.

6 Chinese charged for turtle catch in Philippines (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:37 AM PST

In this Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 photo released by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan province, nine dead Green Sea Turtles seized from six Chinese fishermen at Puerto Princesa city port, Palawan province, southwestern Philippines are loaded into a Philippine Navy truck for proper disposition.  Maj. Niel Estrella, a Philippine military spokesman, said six Chinese fishermen, allegedly from China's southern island province of Hainan, were arrested Friday in waters off western Palawan province's Balabac township, with the turtles on their speedboat and expected to be charged in court Monday Dec. 5, 2011. Three more of the catch were alive and tagged before being released to the sea. (AP Photo/Palawan Council for Sustainable Development) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - A court in the Philippines charged six Chinese fisherman with poaching endangered sea turtles in proceedings Monday aimed at protecting threatened wildlife along the country's coastline.


China slowdown spreading, HSBC services PMI shows (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 09:08 PM PST

Reuters - China's services sector cooled in November to its weakest growth in three months, an HSBC purchasing managers' index showed on Monday, the latest data portraying an economy slowing quickly and in need of policy support.

HSBC China services PMI falls, slowdown spreads (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 07:03 PM PST

Reuters - The HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index for China's services sector fell to 52.5 from 54.1 in November, signalling its slowest rate of growth in three months and the latest in a series of data points portraying a quickly cooling economy in need of policy support.

China's new loans may increase slightly in 2012: report (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 05:33 PM PST

Reuters - China's new bank loans in 2012 may increase slightly from this year's quota of 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.18 trillion), but the government will maintain lending curbs on the property sector, the China Business News reported on Monday, citing an official from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).
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