2008年9月29日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Cadbury recalls China-made sweets in Asia (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 03:48 AM CDT

Sweet maker Cadbury has recalled its China-made chocolates from shelves in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia, the company said, the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Sweet maker Cadbury has recalled its China-made chocolates from shelves in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia, the company said Monday, the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal.


China hails spacewalk 'heroes' and sets eyes on moon (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 01:57 AM CDT

A television grab taken from China's CCTV shows the country's three astronauts saluting while seated in front of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft. The Chinese astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday after making the country's first spacewalk, with a hero's welcome awaiting the men whose exploits captivated the nation.(AFP/CCTV)AFP - The first Chinese man to walk in space was hailed as a national hero Monday, as the emerging space power gave one of its clearest indications yet that it is now reaching for the moon.


China's first spacewalk team feted with parade (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 11:11 PM CDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, shakes hands with an engineer at Beijing Space Command and Control Center in Beijing on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Wen watched the return of China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft in a live transmission in the center. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Pang Xinglei)AP - Three Chinese astronauts arrived Monday in Beijing to a homecoming parade after completing China's first spacewalk and putting the country closer to building a space station and landing a man on the moon.


Coke tests Beijing's acceptance of acquisitions (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 02:24 PM CDT

AP - Coca-Cola's friendly $2.5 billion bid to buy China's biggest juice maker is emerging as a test of whether Beijing will allow foreign companies to buy homegrown businesses — or force entrepreneurs to serve its vision of creating national economic champions.

Airbus expecting 'large' China order by early 2009: CEO (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 12:36 PM CDT

Chinese hostesses stand in line to greet guests inside a hangar for the inauguration ceremony for the opening of the Airbus Tianjin plant in northern China on September 28, 2008. European aircraft giant Airbus is expecting a AFP - European aircraft giant Airbus is expecting a "large order" from Chinese airlines by early 2009, the company's chief executive officer Tom Enders said here Sunday.


China's Muslims say Ramadan a time of repression (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 08:31 AM CDT

In this Aug. 6, 2008 file photo, Uighurs are seen outside a restaurant in Kashgar, China. For followers of Islam, Ramadan is supposed to be a time of fasting, spiritual reflection and prayer. But for many members of China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority, the holy month is also full of fear and seething resentment about increasingly tight restrictions - coming on the heels of a series of attacks - on how they worship and practice their moderate form of Islam.  (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - All that was left on the chin of the Muslim man praying at the huge brownstone mosque was a small patch of stubble. He said officials had forced young men in China's far western Xinjiang region to cut off their beards at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.


China astronauts return after historic mission (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 05:56 AM CDT

A TV grab from CCTV shows Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang waving a small Chinese flag shortly after climbing out of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft. Three astronauts who conducted China's first-ever space walk landed safely back on Chinese soil, bringing an end to the latest historic mission by the country's young space programme.(AFP/CCTV)AFP - Three astronauts who conducted China's first-ever space walk landed safely back on Chinese soil on Sunday, bringing an end to the latest historic mission by the country's young space programme.


We feel good, emerging China astronauts say (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 05:36 AM CDT

Reuters - China's three astronauts emerged from their space capsule at the end of a 68-hour mission which included a space walk.

China milk victim lawyers say pressed to quit (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 04:02 AM CDT

Reuters - Chinese lawyers seeking redress for infant victims of toxic milk say they are facing growing official pressure to abandon the efforts, blaming growing government sensitivity over the health scandal.
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