2011年12月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China's stone workshops silenced by European crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:57 PM PST

Reuters - Mournful ancient Roman lovers, a boy Mozart and half a dozen angels lie in weeds behind the padlocked gates of an abandoned sculpture workshop in Dangcheng town, victims of economic waves rippling across the world to this corner of northern China.

U.S. asks for WTO panel in poultry spat with China (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:38 PM PST

Reuters - The United States asked the World Trade Organization on Thursday to strike down duties that China imposed on U.S. poultry products in apparent retaliation for U.S. moves to restrict Chinese imports.

Analysis: Damaged ship threatens to sink Vale's China hopes (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:09 AM PST

Reuters - A ruptured hull in the world's largest dry bulk ship could sink Vale's (VALE5.SA) multi-billion dollar plan for a flotilla of giant vessels to link its iron ore mines to the mills of top steelmaker China.

China's pollution data shrouded in official fog (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST

In this photo taken on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, Tan Liang, a resident of Beijing, prepares to take readings on a PM2.5 detector outside his residential compound in Beijing, China. People in Beijing and elsewhere in China are demanding the right to know what the government does not tell them: just how polluted their city is. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Armed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are recording pollution levels and posting them online. It's an act that borders on subversion.

Australia wants transparent appeal from China (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:14 AM PST

AP - Australia's justice minister has told China that his government expects a jailed businessman's appeal to be transparent.

China executes Filipino man despite Aquino appeal (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:09 AM PST

Employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs join hands as they pray during a mass for a Filipino man executed in China for drug trafficking Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. China, the world's most prolific executioner, put the 35-years old man to death by lethal injection despite a clemency appeal from President Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - China, the world's most prolific executioner, put a Filipino drug trafficker to death Thursday despite a clemency appeal from the Philippine president.

China shale gas discoveries major boost to supply (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:01 AM PST

AP - China is reporting discoveries of major shale gas reserves in its western Sichuan region, a development that could drastically boost its domestic supplies of natural gas and temper demand for imports.

Donations to charities in China plunge after scandals (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:35 AM PST

Reuters - Charitable donations in China have plunged more than 80 percent because of public mistrust in the wake of recent allegations that some charities have misused money, media reported on Thursday.

China's "Best Buys" scramble to tap e-commerce boom (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:40 PM PST

Reuters - Two Chinese appliance and electronics retailers, regarded by some as the country's answers to Best Buy Co Inc , are racing to beef up their e-commerce arms and tap the booming but highly competitive online retail market.

Ex-Beijing airport boss gets 12 years for graft (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:07 PM PST

AP - The former boss of Beijing's sprawling airport has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes to arrange jobs and set up corrupt business deals.

U.S. seeks to reassure China on Australia military ties (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 10:46 PM PST

Reuters - The United States has sought to reassure China that expanding military U.S. ties with Australia are not aimed at containing China, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday, a day after talks with the Chinese army.

US official says military pacts not aimed at China (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:27 PM PST

AP - The strengthening of U.S. military alliances in Asia is not aimed at containing China, a top Pentagon official said Thursday after annual defense talks that reflected Chinese misgivings about America's regional agenda but also offered the possibility of more robust ties between the two militaries.

Foreigners in China squeezed by pensions, taxes (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:00 PM PST

In this photo taken on Dec. 1, 2011, commuters walk past a foreign clothing company advertisement inside a subway station in Beijing. Foreign companies that are looking to China to shore up wilting global sales have been hit by higher payroll taxes, surcharges to subsidize unions and other changes that are making conditions tougher just as economic growth slows. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Foreign companies that are looking to China to shore up wilting global sales have been hit by higher payroll taxes, surcharges to subsidize unions and other changes that are making conditions tougher just as economic growth slows.

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