2008年9月15日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

China says milk powder contamination sickens 1,253 (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:53 AM CDT

AP - China's Health Ministry says two infants have died from ingesting contaminated milk powder and 1,253 have been sickened.

Sabotage cited as China narrows blame for deadly baby formula (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:52 AM CDT

File photo shows a young child drinking milk from a bottle outside his home in a hutong (alleyway community) in Beijing. Chinese officials have said that private milk-collecting stations were likely at fault for a rapidly unfolding scandal over tainted infant formula that has left two babies dead and nearly 600 ill.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese officials said Monday that private milk-collecting stations were likely at fault for a rapidly unfolding scandal over tainted infant formula that has left two babies dead and nearly 600 ill.


China says 1,253 babies affected by contaminated milk (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:42 AM CDT

A Chinese baby drinks milk -- unconnected to the latest milk scare -- in Guangzhou. A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition, the health ministry said Monday, vastly increasing previous estimates.


China reports second infant death in milk scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:21 AM CDT

Eight-month-old Cheng Aobing, who suffers from kidney stones, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province September 14, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - China reported on Monday the death of a second infant from tainted milk powder in a growing scandal that prompted an official product recall only after the New Zealand government intervened.


Chinese firms try to block Coke's juice company takeover: report (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:03 AM CDT

A woman passes a Coca Cola advertising hoarding in early August in Beijing. A group of Chinese drinks makers are to submit plans to the government they hope will block Coca-Cola's takeover of China Huiyuan Juice Group, state media have reported.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - A group of Chinese drinks makers are to submit plans to the government they hope will block Coca-Cola's takeover of China Huiyuan Juice Group, state media reported Monday.


Fonterra says contaminated milk in China was sabotaged (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 01:54 AM CDT

A Chinese baby drinks milk -- unconnected to the latest milk scare -- in Guangzhou. A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Monday that contaminated milk powder from its Chinese joint venture company Sanlu Group, which has killed two infants, was the result of sabotage.


China landslide death toll rises to 254 (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 01:27 AM CDT

A villager looks at his house damaged by the rain-triggered mud slide at Xiangfen County in Linfen,  north China's Shanxi province, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008.  Authorities have detained 13 officials of a mine whose dump site collapsed to trigger a landslide that blanketed a village and killed at least 178 people in northern China, state media said Friday.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - The governor of a northern Chinese province resigned after the death toll in a landslide triggered by the collapse of an illegal mining dump rose to 254, local officials said Monday.


Presidential hopefuls spell out China policy (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 12:26 AM CDT

Soldiers stand guard in Tiananmen square in Beijing August 24, 2008. (Grace Liang/Reuters)Reuters - Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama both vowed to press China on trade and to work with it on climate change if elected, and Obama said he would make shifting Beijing's currency policies a priority.


A life of coal for Chinese migrant worker (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 11:23 PM CDT

File photo shows Chinese miners assisting in a mine rescue operation at a coal mine in Xintai, eastern Shandong province. The country's mines are among the most dangerous in the world, with safety standards often ignored in the quest for profits and the drive to meet surging demand for coal - the source of about 70 percent of the country's energy.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Zhang Yongling is a typical migrant labourer. Raised in the rural farmlands of China's southwest, he is now a mine worker in the brutal northern coal-producing region.


Tainted baby milk powder claims lives of two Chinese infants (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 09:59 PM CDT

A Chinese baby drinks milk -- unconnected to the latest milk scare -- in Guangzhou. A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese state media said Monday a second baby has died from drinking contaminated milk powder, after one fatality was confirmed earlier.


China province governor resigns over deadly landslide: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 05:59 PM CDT

Chinese rescuers search a house half buried under a torrent of mining waste and sludge in Taoshi, when a mining dam collapsed on September 8, in north China's Shanxi province on September 11. The governor of north China's Shanxi province stepped down Sunday over a landslide that killed at least 254, the second time he has fallen from grace over a major scandal.(AFP/File)AFP - The governor of north China's Shanxi province stepped down Sunday over a landslide that killed at least 254, the second time he has fallen from grace over a major scandal.


McCain, Obama call for closer US-China cooperation (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 03:11 PM CDT

AP - John McCain and Barack Obama call for closer U.S.-Chinese cooperation on trade, the environment and nuclear proliferation in the upcoming issue of an American business group's magazine in an unusual effort to court voters abroad.

Tibet monk in hiding tells of interrogation, abuse (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 10:22 AM CDT

AP - Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside.

China sends festival greetings, Taiwan songs from moon (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 06:11 AM CDT

A father and son admire the space craft lanterns during a Chinese mid-autumn festival in Hong Kong's Victoria Park September 28, 2004. (Kin Cheung/Reuters)Reuters - China broadcast greetings and two Taiwanese songs from its first moon probe on Sunday, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival when families gather to enjoy the bright autumn moon.


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