2008年12月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Chinese shares fall in slow preholiday trading (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:29 AM CST

AP - Chinese stocks fell for a seventh straight session on Tuesday, as banks and property developers led a broad decline in lackluster trading.

China energy chief: crisis chance to up reserves (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 02:48 AM CST

AP - Falling demand for energy shows China's deepening exposure to the global economic crisis, but it also offers an opportunity to build national reserves and cut waste, the country's energy chief said.

Chinese dairies to compensate sickened babies (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 01:32 AM CST

In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a child cries as he waits for ultrasound exam to look for problems related to consuming tainted milk formula at a hospital in Shi Jiazhuang, north China's Hebei province. The companies whose tainted milk products sickened nearly 300,000 children and were blamed in the deaths of six will likely pay 1.1 billion yuan ($160 million) in compensation to victims' families, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - Lawyers for the families of Chinese children sickened by tainted milk said Tuesday they are advising their clients to reject a government compensation package, saying the amount offered for families of victims is too low.


Two more stand trial in China milk scandal (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 12:58 AM CST

Nurses at a hospital tend to a newborn baby in Beijing on December 1. Two more suspects in China's tainted milk scandal were set to go on trial Tuesday, bringing the number to 17 who are facing court over the nation's worst food safety case in years.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Two more suspects in China's tainted milk scandal went on trial Tuesday, bringing to 17 the number who have faced court over the nation's worst food safety case in years.


China's Foton says clean energy car factory opened in Beijing (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 12:54 AM CST

China's Beiqi Foton Motor Co has launched a five-billion-yuan (US$730 million) design and production base for clean energy vehicles in Beijing, the company has said.(AFP/File)AFP - China's Beiqi Foton Motor Co has launched a five-billion-yuan (730-million-dollar) design and production base for clean energy vehicles in Beijing, the company said Tuesday.


China finds "largest dinosaur fossil site" in world (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 11:59 PM CST

A museum employee walks past the skeletal replica of a dinosaur at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, June 22, 2007. (Aly Song/Reuters)Reuters - Scientists in China say they have discovered the world's largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong, state media reported on Tuesday.


China's Hu calls for faster rebuilding in Sichuan (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 11:27 PM CST

A man collects bricks at the ruins of houses which were destroyed by the earthquake in Qingchuan, Sichuan province December 16, 2008. (Christina Hu/Reuters)AP - China's president called for faster reconstruction during a visit to the devastated Sichuan province where many victims of May's massive earthquake are facing a cold winter.


China Eastern Airlines bailout raised to $1 bln (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 11:17 PM CST

AP - China Eastern Airlines plans to raise 7 billion yuan ($1 billion) from selling shares to its state-owned parent company — more than double the amount originally planned — to help it weather a financial crisis.

China faces new melamine scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 10:05 PM CST

Reuters - More than 1,500 boxes of Chinese biscuits exported to Hong Kong and Singapore have tested positive for melamine as suspects in the protracted tainted-food scandal go on trial in China, local media reported on Tuesday.

In China, parents fight to find their kidnapped child (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 09:56 PM CST

Child trafficking is increasing in China, with the poor bearing the brunt of the burden(AFPTV)AFP - Peng Siying could not take her eyes away from the computer screen where the last photos of her son were displayed, taken more than a year ago before he was kidnapped in the south of China.


China's Hu urges faster rebuilding in quake zone (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:35 PM CST

A man collects bricks at the ruins of houses which were destroyed by the earthquake in Qingchuan, Sichuan province December 16, 2008. (Christina Hu/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged quicker reconstruction in quake-hit areas of southwest China, as millions of people face a bleak winter living in tents and temporary housing, state media reported on Tuesday.


Northwest seeks to delay some U.S.-China service (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST

AP - Northwest Airlines, due to poor market conditions in light of the weakened global economy, is the latest carrier seeking to delay or cut back long-coveted U.S.-China service.

China's great migration wrenched back by crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:53 PM CST

A migrant worker carries his belongings at a railway station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in this November 6, 2008 file photo. (Sean Yong/Files/Reuters)Reuters - The biggest migration in human history has gone into reverse.


Chinese official sacked after photos show luxury tastes (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:13 PM CST

A Cadilac is being cleaned before the opening of the Chicago Auto Show in 2005. Chinese communist official Zhou Jiugeng has been sacked from his government post after photos on the Internet showed him wearing a designer watch and smoking luxury brand cigarettes. Internet postings suggested Zhou had other habits beyond a civil servant's means, such as driving to work in a Cadillac(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - A Chinese communist official has been sacked from his government post after photos on the Internet showed him wearing a designer watch and smoking luxury brand cigarettes, an official said Monday.


Moderate earthquake hits China (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:24 AM CST

A file photo of damage from the May 12 earthquake in China's southwest Sichuan province. A 5.0-magnitude quake struck a wide area that was heavily damaged in the quake earlier this year, officials and residents said.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China on Monday, shaking a wide area that was heavily damaged in this year's Sichuan disaster, officials and residents said.


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