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China sets plan to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 01:11 AM CDT

Reuters - Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas.

France withdraws contaminated Chinese sweets (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 10:51 PM CDT

Reuters - France banned on Friday the sale of two brands of Chinese-made sweets and biscuits that it said had been contaminated with malamine-tainted milk -- the latest country hit by the widening health scandal.

Crane collapses on Chinese kindergarten, killing 5 (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 09:02 AM CDT

AP - A crane at a construction site next to a Chinese kindergarten collapsed Friday, killing five children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

China dissident Zeng says she wants to speak out despite fear (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 06:09 AM CDT

AFP - Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan said on Friday that she wanted to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband, who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.