2008年9月12日星期五

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China counts down to space launch (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 04:11 AM CDT

Reuters - China is counting down to 9.10 p.m. (9:10 a.m. EDT) on September 25 for its third manned space flight that will include a space walk, local media reported on Friday.

Slowing industrial growth may push China to further ease tightening (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:10 AM CDT

A man pulls a cart full of boxed goods along a street in Beijing. Growth in China's industrial output slowed to 12.8 percent in August from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China reported an easing in industrial output Friday, providing further evidence its economy is slowing amid a global slump and reinforcing expectations Beijing will move to spur growth.


China vows 'serious punishment' in formula probe (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 03:05 AM CDT

In this photo released by China's Xihua News Agency, two babies with kidney stones receive medical treatment under the care of their fathers at a military hospital in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. So far this year, Gansu Provincial Health Department has seen 59 kidney stone cases in infants, and at least one baby died as a result of kidney stones. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhu Guoliang)AP - China's government vowed "serious punishment" on Friday after a major dairy recalled 700 tons of milk powder linked to a rash of illnesses in infants, and the case reignited fears about Chinese product safety.


13 mine officials detained after China landslide (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 02:25 AM CDT

Rescuers use heavy machines searching for victims buried under the mud, at a village housing area, following the rain-triggered mud slide at Xiangfen County in Linfen,  north China's Shanxi province, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. The death toll from a landslide of iron ore waste from an illegal mining operation that has killed at least 128 people in northern China could climb by several hundred more, state media said Thursday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Authorities have detained 13 officials of a mine whose dump site collapsed to trigger a landslide that blanketed a village and killed at least 151 people in northern China, state media said Friday.


China probes all milk powder in baby health scare (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 01:37 AM CDT

Reuters - China has launched a nationwide probe into all baby milk powders after a contaminant linked to the deaths and illness of thousands of pets in the United States last year was found in one brand.

China launches probe into milk powder after baby dies (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 01:03 AM CDT

A baby drinks milk is it is carried by its mother as passengers wait for a train at the railway station in China's southern city of Guangzhou, in February. Chinese authorities announced a nationwide probe Friday into a milk powder suspected of killing one baby and sickening dozens of others, in the latest safety scandal to rock China's food chain.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Chinese authorities announced a nationwide probe Friday into a milk powder suspected of killing one baby and sickening dozens of others, in the latest safety scandal to rock China's food chain.


Avoid Chinese-made baby formula: FDA (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 03:30 PM CDT

Reuters - Baby formula from China is illegal in the United States and should not be used, U.S. regulators warned on Thursday after Chinese officials blamed tainted formula for the death of an infant.

China lawyers call for more open bar association (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2008 01:03 PM CDT

AP - A splinter group of Chinese lawyers, frustrated by official interference in their work, is pushing Beijing's government-controlled bar association to hold open elections, complaining that the organization doesn't safeguard their rights.
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