2008年10月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China milk scandal province hid mine disaster (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:07 AM CDT

Reuters - Officials in the north Chinese province at the heart of a toxic milk scandal hid a coal mine explosion that killed more than 30 miners three weeks before the Beijing Olympics, state media reported.

China reluctant to reveal tainted milk figures (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:13 AM CDT

Farmers pour fresh milk onto the ground at a milk collection station in Wuhan. China has declined to release updated figures revealing how many children have been affected by the tainted milk scandal, as it attempted to boost confidence in its food safety standards.(AFP/File)AFP - China insisted Wednesday it was being open about the impact of milk tainted with the toxic chemical melamine, but declined to make public the latest data on how many children had fallen ill.


China sets melamine levels for milk products (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III holds a 'JollyCow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk' from China that was tested positive for melamine during a news conference Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine health secretary says traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been found in the third Chinese-made milk product sold in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare.


US-Taiwan-China relationship back in balance (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:04 AM CDT

In this Oct. 10, 2007 file photo, Taiwan's  U.S.-made Patriot surface to air missile batteries pass during the Republic of China National Day parade in Taipei, Taiwan. China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multi-billion dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)AP - Taiwan's once-strained relations with the United States are back on track after the Bush administration approved a long-delayed $6.5 billion package of weapons to help the island defend itself against China.


China urges fund JVs to give health of foreign partners (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 01:10 AM CDT

Reuters - China's securities watchdog has urged fund ventures partly owned by foreign financial institutions to disclose the financial state of their partners, reflecting increasing government concern about the spreading impact of the global financial crisis.

Judge orders release of Chinese Muslims into US (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 05:12 PM CDT

File photo shows an entrance to the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base detention centre. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/Pool/File/Randall Mikkelsen)AP - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Tuesday to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States, a dramatic ruling that could set the course for releasing dozens of other prisoners at the naval facility in Cuba.


China suggests Nobel should not go to activist (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 12:54 PM CDT

In this Feb. 24, 2006 file photo., Gao Zhisheng gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing. Peace researcher Stein Toennesson, whose picks tend to shape world speculation, was leaning toward Chinese dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia, both arrested and jailed through the Beijing Olympics to keep them out of the public eye. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - China's foreign ministry suggested Tuesday that it hopes Chinese human rights activists will not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award should go to the "right people."


136 villagers poisoned by water in southern China (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 11:11 AM CDT

AP - More than a hundred villagers in southern China have been poisoned by after drinking water apparently contaminated with arsenic, official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

China slams U.S. arms sale to Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 10:33 AM CDT

Reuters - A $6.5 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan has ruined years of work building trust with China, China said on Tuesday as the Pentagon voiced disappointment that Beijing had reacted by postponing military exchanges.

China hopes "right person" wins Nobel Peace Prize (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 05:13 AM CDT

Reuters - China said on Wednesday it hoped the Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced on Friday, will go to the "right person" after a Chinese dissident had been mentioned as a potential winner.

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