2012年1月16日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


China cancer village tests law against pollution (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 08:22 AM PST

Reuters - Nothing in Wu Wenyong's rural childhood hinted he would end up on a hospital bed aged 15, battling two kinds of cancer.

China's president-in-waiting Xi woos U.S. before visit (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:08 AM PST

Reuters - China and the United States should cooperate more closely to defuse international crises and ensure friction does not overwhelm shared interests, China's likely next president, Xi Jinping, said on Monday, setting an upbeat tone for his impending visit to Washington.

Newsmaker: Long trek from clerk to chairman of China's AgBank (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:58 AM PST

Reuters - The new chief of Agricultural Bank of China (601288.SS) (1288.HK) brings no-nonsense flair and a strong track record in bank overhauls to the helm of the lumbering Chinese lender where he started out years ago as a filing clerk.

Thousands of workers protest at Sanyo's China plant (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:17 AM PST

Reuters - Thousands of Chinese workers protesting over compensation and job security at a Sanyo Electric Co Ltd plant clashed with police in southern Shenzhen, media said on Monday, the latest outbreak of labor unrest in China's manufacturing hub.

China to ease controls on HK listings: regulator (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:13 PM PST

Reuters - China's securities regulator plans to relax controls on Hong Kong and overseas listings for Chinese companies and will push for issues of yuan-denominated shares in the offshore yuan market, its vice chairman Yao Gang said on Monday.

China launches its first physical iron ore trading platform (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:05 PM PST

Reuters - China launched its first physical iron ore trading platform on Monday in the latest move by the world's biggest iron ore consumer to strengthen its pricing power over a raw material long dominated by giant foreign suppliers.

Analysis: China developers launch funds to bridge finance gap (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 08:46 PM PST

Reuters - China's fledgling real estate investment fund market could see a surge of activity in 2012 as property developers launch their own vehicles in a desperate bid to bridge an estimated $111 billion financing gap in the year ahead.

Analysis: Foreign firms pay up to enter China's funds industry (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 08:10 PM PST

Reuters - China's $350 billion mutual funds industry may be stumbling due to a sliding stock market and fierce competition but that has not stopped new foreign entrants from paying hefty premiums -- double of what they are offering in India, in some cases -- to get their toes in.

China village protest leader made local party head (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 07:46 PM PST

AP - A man who led mass protests over a land dispute that drove out local officials and police from a village in southern China has been appointed the village's new chief.

Chinese Premier Wen takes aim at land seizures (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:09 AM PST

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for farmers' land rights to be protected and criticized a widespread policy of moving villagers into apartment blocks so their land can be merged into larger blocs or developed.
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