2008年10月6日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China detains six suspected in milk scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT

Children wait to receive medical checks for possible kidney stones at a hospital in Suining, Sichuan province September 17, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese police have detained six people suspected of producing and selling melamine, the chemical at the center of the country's scandal over tainted dairy products, the official Xinhua news agency said.

China investigates landslide that buried village (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:37 AM CDT

AP - Chinese authorities launched an investigation Monday into an industrial landslide that buried a village in northern China, amid claims that officials initially downplayed the scale of the tragedy, a state news agency reported.

Iran bans Chinese milk products over health fears (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:11 AM CDT

Chinese shoppers buy imported milk at a supermarket in Nanjing in September. Iran has banned imports of Chinese milk products over a contamination scandal which has left thousands of babies ill in China, local media reported on Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - Iran has banned imports of Chinese milk products over a contamination scandal which has left thousands of babies ill in China, local media reported on Monday.

UBS lowers China 2009 GDP growth forecast to 8 percent (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:09 AM CDT

Reuters - UBS on Monday lowered its forecast for China's gross domestic product growth in 2009 to 8.0 percent from 8.8 percent, citing a much weaker global growth outlook and forecasts of a deeper and longer U.S. recession.

Chinese insurer to record $2.3B loss on Fortis (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 01:26 AM CDT

In this March 1, 2007 file photo, Ping An Insurance Group CEO Ma Mingzhe, right, strikes the gong during the company's initial public offering ceremony at the Shanghai Stocks Exchange in Shanghai, China. Ping An Insurance Co., one of China's biggest insurers, said Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 it will record a US$2.3 billion loss on its stake in troubled European bank Fortis NV. (AP Photo/File)AP - China's Ping An Insurance Co. said Monday it will record a $2.3 billion loss on its stake in troubled European bank Fortis NV, in the biggest blow yet to a Chinese institution from the global credit crisis.

China dispatches 5,000 inspectors over milk scandal (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 11:27 PM CDT

South Korean health officials inspect cakes made by a Korean plant in China. China has ordered more than 5,000 inspectors to be posted at its dairy factories, state media said Monday, as the tainted milk scandal continued to impact countries as far away as South America.(AFP/Lee Hoon-Koo)AFP - China has ordered more than 5,000 inspectors to be posted at its dairy factories, state media said Monday, as the tainted milk scandal continued to impact countries as far away as South America.

Ailing Fortis investment to hurt China's Ping An 2008 profits (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:57 PM CDT

Two elderly Chinese women wait outside the offices of Ping An Insurance in Shanghai. The insurance group has warned its 2008 profits would be hit by US$2.3-billion in losses from its investment in ailing Belgian-Dutch finance group Fortis.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China's Ping An Insurance group warned its 2008 profits would be hit by 15.7 billion yuan (2.3 billion dollars) in losses from its investment in ailing Belgian-Dutch finance group Fortis.

Quake hits China's remote northwest; no casualties (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 07:13 PM CDT

Reuters - A strong earthquake hit China's remote northwestern region of Xinjiang early on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, state media said.

Report: 5.7 quake rattles northwestern China (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 01:05 PM CDT

AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck a remote northwestern Chinese region.

China says new tests show milk free from melamine (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 04:18 AM CDT

A Chinese child drinks milk from a bottle in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. Thirty-one samples of Chinese milk powder provided by 20 companies were found tainted with melamine after new testing, according to data seen Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2008, on the Web site. (AP Photo)AP - China's food safety watchdog says no traces of the industrial chemical melamine were found in new tests of liquid milk sold domestically, as officials seek to restore public trust in milk supplies.

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