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 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 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 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 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 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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