2008年9月21日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Fireworks blamed as 43 die in China nightclub blaze (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 03:09 AM CDT

A fire at a club in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, near the border with Hong Kong, has killed 43 people and left at least 51 injured, state-run media has said.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - A fire and subsequent stampede at a club in southern China killed 43 people and left 88 injured, state media said Sunday, in the latest incident highlighting China's abysmal fire safety record.


Fire in illegal Chinese dance hall kills 43 (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:16 AM CDT

Reuters - A fire at an illegal dance club in southern China, just across the border from Hong Kong, left 43 mostly young people dead and another 88 injured, another grim reminder of the country's broken regulatory system.

Hong Kong girl falls ill after drinking Chinese milk powder: govt (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:02 AM CDT

A Chinese child is treated at a hospital after drinking tainted milk powder in eastern China's Anhui province on September 18. A three-year-old Hong Kong girl has developed a kidney stone after drinking Chinese milk powder, the government has said, as a major contamination scare spread to the southern city.(AFP/File)AFP - A three-year-old Hong Kong girl has developed a kidney stone after drinking Chinese milk powder, the government has said, as a major contamination scare spread to the southern city.


37 dead from gas inhalation in China coal mine: state media (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 12:52 AM CDT

File photo shows a miner passing a mural as he carries lumps of coal from a mine in Xiaoqinghe, in China's Shanxi province. Thirty-seven miners have died from gas inhalation in a coal mine in central China, state media have said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Thirty-seven miners died from gas inhalation in a coal mine in central China early on Sunday, state media said, in the latest disaster to hit the country's notoriously deadly mining industry.


Report: Fire at Chinese nightclub kills 43 (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:42 PM CDT

AP - State media says a fire has killed at least 43 people in a nightclub in southern China.

From boom to bust, China's stocks casino loses luster (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:34 PM CDT

A woman reads the information on an electronic screen at a brokerage house in Shanghai in this September 16, 2008 file photo. China's middle-class moms and blue-collar pensioners were among the world's most avid and successful investors last year. Now their record is one of lost fortunes, broken families and protest. China's stock market is down nearly two-thirds in eleven months and the anger of millions of ordinary citizens has unnerved the country's stability-obsessed government. (Aly Song/Files/Reuters)Reuters - China's middle-class moms and blue-collar pensioners were among the world's most avid and successful investors last year. Now their record is one of lost fortunes, broken families and protest.


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