2008年9月9日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Foreign firms keep eye on Coca-Cola China deal: EU business (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:24 AM CDT

A food stall emblazoned with Coca Cola Olympics advertising in Beijing in May. Foreign firms are keeping a close watch on the fate of Coca-Cola's bid for Chinese juice producer Huiyuan, as suspicions about economic nationalism are on the rise, a European business group said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Foreign firms are keeping a close watch on the fate of Coca-Cola's bid for Chinese juice producer Huiyuan, as suspicions about economic nationalism are on the rise, a European business group said Tuesday.


Hundreds feared missing after China mudslide (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:36 AM CDT

Rescuers search for victims after a rain-triggered mud-rock flow in Xiangfen county, Shanxi province September 8, 2008. A mud and rock slide killed 26 people in northern China, after it triggered the collapse of a warehouse filled with mine waste early Monday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency said. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Hundreds of people may be missing after a mudslide triggered the collapse of a reservoir of iron ore waste in northern China, burying houses and sweeping away cars in a wall of thick sludge that killed at least 34 people.


34 dead after mudslide sweeps through Chinese town: govt (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:01 AM CDT

File photo shows a Chinese worker shoving mud out of a drainage ditch. At least 34 people were killed in northern China when heavy rains triggered an industrial mud and rock slide that swept away homes, an office building and a market place, the government said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - At least 34 people were killed after an industrial rock and mud slide swept through a town in northern China, engulfing homes, a market and an office building, the government said Tuesday.


Report: China earthquake fund $180 billion short (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:59 AM CDT

A teacher takes clothes out from a partially destroyed building at Jiangyi Middle School after an earthquake hit in Yuanmou County, Yunnan province September 2, 2008. China allocated 27 million yuan ($3.95 million) from its central emergency relief fund to the southwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces ravaged by Saturday's 6.1-magnitude quake, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and reported by Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken September 2, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA).  CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.AP - China's Sichuan province has about a quarter of the money it needs to rebuild after a devastating earthquake in May that left 90,000 people dead or missing and destroyed much of its infrastructure, a state-controlled newspaper said Tuesday.


Landslide in China kills 34, destroys warehouse (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:21 PM CDT

Rescuers work in the mud-rock flow triggered by heavy rain in Xiangfen County in Linfen City of China's Shnaxi province Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed at least 26 people in northern China on Monday, while an unknown number of others remained trapped. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - The death toll in a landslide that plowed into buildings in northern China has risen to at least 34 people, with an unknown number of others still trapped, a state news agency reported Tuesday.


China's rulers look to space to maintain Olympic pride (AFP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 10:29 PM CDT

A man in a space suit during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. China's rulers are looking to catapult overflowing pride and patriotism from the Olympics into another stratosphere when the nation's first AFP - China's rulers are looking to catapult overflowing pride and patriotism from the Beijing Olympics into another stratosphere when the nation's first "taikonaut" walks in space this month.


China to review Coca Cola bid for juice maker (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:43 AM CDT

AP - Coca-Cola Co. will have to submit its bid to buy a Chinese juice producer for review under China's new anti-monopoly law, state television reported, setting up the first major test of the legislation.

So far only 1 China quake orphan adopted (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:21 AM CDT

A young girl injured in the earthquake that hit the city of Dujiangyan, Sichuan in June, is treated at a field hospital. Chinese authorities have reported receiving little response after putting 88 children orphaned in the devastating May earthquake up for adoption, state press said Monday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AP - Only one orphan has been adopted in the four months since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province left some 90,000 people dead or missing, government officials and state media said Monday.


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