2012年2月3日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Canadian PM to visit China next week (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST

AP - Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas.

Gas blast kills 11 coal miners in southwest China (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:46 AM PST

AP - State media say an explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China has killed 11 miners and injured six.

China criticizes Iran sanctions as Merkel visits (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:13 AM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Merkel called Thursday on China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, to use its influence to persuade Tehran to renounce possible nuclear weapons ambitions. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China's premier pledged to help Europe fight its debt crisis during a meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel but a ruling party newspaper criticized sanctions on Iran and a human rights lawyer was blocked from meeting Merkel.


Chinese lawyer barred from meeting with Merkel (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST

AP - A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer said Friday that Beijing police prevented him from meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a sign of continuing heavy restrictions on the country's beleaguered rights advocates.

Analysis: China security blanket for citizens abroad has limits (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:41 AM PST

Reuters - In a demonstration of its growing military power, China is increasingly willing to deploy its armed forces to protect Chinese nationals abroad, but analysts say it still lacks the capacity to mount a complex hostage rescue.

HK's China policies spur clash with mainland cousins (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:03 AM PST

Reuters - As Hong Kong's outgoing leader Donald Tsang looks ahead to retirement, an unusually toxic public debate over the burden placed by a flood of mainland Chinese visitors has struck at the heart of Hong Kong's often rocky transition from British colony to Chinese special administrative region that began in 1997.

Analysis: China gets restive taste of post-Dalai Lama era (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:54 PM PST

Reuters - China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves on fire and other forms of protest.

China cabinet economist warns of "deflation" in 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:39 PM PST

Reuters - China's headline consumer price index (CPI) is on track to fall on a month-to-month basis in the coming months and mark a year-on-year decline in the second half of 2012, a government economist said in comments published on Friday.

China blocks rights lawyer from meeting Merkel (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:26 PM PST

Reuters - Chinese police blocked a prominent human rights lawyer from attending a Beijing dinner hosted by German leader Angela Merkel, the lawyer said on Friday, the latest example of restrictions on unorthodox views in a sensitive year.

Local firms vie for Yum's slice of the China market (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:54 PM PST

Reuters - Four floors up overlooking the bustle of the cavernous Joy City Mall in Beijing, diners take a break from shopping to slurp noodles and nibble on dumplings at an Ajisen restaurant.

China's push for rail reform could be dead in its tracks (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:13 PM PST

Reuters - When Zhang Dong sat down recently to book train tickets for his trip home for the Chinese new year, he got a taste of the frustration that has helped make China's railway ministry a focus of anger against the country's many bureaucrats.
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