2008年9月1日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Rescuers appeal for tents after deadly China quake (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 02:30 AM CDT

An elderly woman sits beside her damaged house, following an earthquake which hit the Lazha Village in Panzhihua of southwest China's Sichuan province Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed Sunday to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sichuan province on Saturday along the same fault line as the May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 33 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.


China quake kills 38 and damages quarter million homes (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 02:30 AM CDT

Firemen try to dig out the body of Chen Guangyou, 53, from the debris of a collapsed house after an earthquake hit Lixi town of Huili County, Sichuan province, August 31, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - An earthquake that hit China's southwest killed 38 people, Xinhua news agency said on Monday, two days after the most recent in a series of tremors to hit the region.


China court sentences police killer to death (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:54 PM CDT

Reuters - A Chinese court sentenced a man to death on Monday for knifing to death six police officers in a case that spurred controversy over police treatment of suspects.

Chinese official says no need to speed renminbi rise (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:42 PM CDT

Reuters - China need not accelerate the appreciation of its renminbi currency against the U.S. dollar, the Financial Times quoted a former senior Chinese economic policy-maker as saying.

Death penalty for murderer of six Shanghai policemen: state media (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:41 PM CDT

File photo shows a Chinese paramilitary police officer on patrol. A Chinese court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to death for killing six policemen at their station in Shanghai, state media has reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old man to death for killing six policemen at their station in Shanghai, state media reported.


Xinhua: Death penalty for man accused of killing 6 (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 10:38 PM CDT

AP - China's official Xinhua News Agency says a Shanghai court has ordered the death penalty for a man convicted of killing six policemen in a knife attack at a police station.

China lays to rest Mao's chosen successor Hua Guofeng (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2008 07:20 AM CDT

Reuters - China laid to rest on Sunday Hua Guofeng, one of the last of the old guard from the Mao era who had been hand-picked by a dying Mao Zedong to succeed him as Communist Party chairman.
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