2008年10月4日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

More nations pull suspect products as China milk scandal spreads (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:12 AM CDT

A woman looks at milk products as she shops at a store in Manila, September 2008. South Korea, Australia and Japan pulled melamine-contaminated sweets and drinks from supermarket shelves amid a widening scandal over Chinese milk products tainted with the toxic chemical.(AFP/File/Jes Aznar)AFP - South Korea, Australia and Japan Saturday pulled melamine-contaminated sweets and drinks from supermarket shelves amid a widening scandal over Chinese milk products tainted with the toxic chemical.


Mao's personal plane up for sale (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:00 AM CDT

China's founding leader Mao Zedong appears on Chinese currency, the Yuan. Mao's personal airplane has been put up for sale by the owner of a shopping centre in southern China to make more space for parking.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Mao Zedong's personal airplane has been put up for sale by the owner of a shopping centre in southern China to make more space for parking.


Millions to die in China from lung disease: report (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 06:02 PM CDT

A man who recycles usable coal smokes a cigarette as he rests at a cinder dump site on the outskirts of Changzhi, north China's Shanxi province October 16, 2007. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Tens of millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer over the next 25 years in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors, scientists warned.


FACTBOX: No safe melamine level found for baby formula (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 12:47 PM CDT

China-made milk products are prepared inside an ultrasonic bath for testing at the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) office in Alabang, south of Manila October 3, 2008. (John Javellana/Reuters)Reuters - No amount of melamine is safe in baby formula, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday in an analysis after milk products from China were found to be contaminated.


Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 12:17 PM CDT

In this June 5, 2008 file photo, visitors look at a giant panda through the protective glass of a renovated panda hall inside a zoo in Beijing, China. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The pandas of the Wuhan Zoo were tired and suffering from a little shock since the start Monday of the weeklong National Day holiday, one of the biggest travel seasons of the year. On Oct. 1, 2008, up to 30,000 people swarmed the zoo and about 1,000 tourists packed the panda enclosure, shouting to get the animals' attention. The pandas paced restlessly. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas.


Skype's China spying sparks anger (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 07:54 AM CDT

A man uses a Skype internet phone next to a laptop in Taipei November 11, 2005. (Richard Chung/Reuters)Reuters - Savvy Internet users in China began avoiding the version of Skype offered by its Chinese partner two years ago, but news it filtered and recorded text messages has sparked new worries about the global firm's commitment to privacy.


Limits for melamine in food fixed only recently: WHO (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 07:35 AM CDT

A supermarket employee sticks labels saying AFP - Many countries have only recently fixed limits for industrial chemical melamine in food products, a World Health Organisation expert said.


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