2008年10月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China to help Pakistan build 2 more power plants (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 03:22 AM CDT

AP - Pakistan's foreign minister says China has signed an agreement with this energy starved Islamic nation to help it build two more nuclear power plants.

Rights groups urge China to extend new press freedom to domestic media (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 02:23 AM CDT

Chinese journalists from Xinhua News Agency work at their office in the Main Press Centre (MPC) in Beijing, in August. Rights groups and media experts Saturday gave a cautious welcome to China's decision to allow foreign reporters greater freedom and urged Beijing to extend the same rights to domestic journalists.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Rights groups and media experts Saturday gave a cautious welcome to China's decision to allow foreign reporters greater freedom and urged Beijing to extend the same rights to domestic journalists.

Five jailed in China for running underground "bank" (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 01:34 AM CDT

Reuters - China has jailed five people for their part in running an illegal currency exchange business that handled billions of yuan in swaps between Hong Kong and the country's south, state media reported Saturday.

China's Wen says government partly to blame for milk scandal (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:55 AM CDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (pictured) has admitted his government is partly to blame for the tainted milk scandal that has killed four infants and sickened 53,000 throughout the country.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's Premier Wen Jiabao said his government was partly to blame for the tainted milk scandal that has killed four infants and sickened 53,000 throughout the country.

China's sovereign fund increases Blackstone stake: state media (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:22 AM CDT

China's sovereign wealth fund has increased its stake in the US private equity firm Blackstone Group to more than 10 percent, according to state media. But the investment was still short of the 12.5 percent limit recently agreed between China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Blackstone, the official China Daily said on Saturday, citing an unnamed source.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's sovereign wealth fund has increased its stake in the US private equity firm Blackstone Group to more than 10 percent, according to state media.

Pakistan's Zardari wants trade for restive regions (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:17 AM CDT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (L) shakes hands with Jia Qinglin, ranked fourth in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy, at the National Guesthouse in Beijing October 16, 2008. (Kota Kyogoku/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Islamabad wants to talk to the next U.S. administration about boosting investment in border regions hit by Islamist militant violence, Chinese state media quoted Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari as saying.

China eases restrictions for foreign journalists (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:36 PM CDT

Chinese journalists from Xinhua News Agency work at their office in the Main Press Centre (MPC) in Beijing in August 2008. China on Friday announced it had extended rules introduced for the Olympics allowing foreign reporters greater freedoms, but there was no easing of restrictions for domestic press.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - China took a further step toward opening itself to the world, announcing Friday that an easing of restrictions on foreign journalists enacted for the Olympics would become permanent.

Panama says tests show Chinese candy tainted (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:19 PM CDT

AP - Panama says Chinese cookies and candy pulled from stores have tested positive for melamine, the industrial chemical blamed for the deaths of four infants and the sickening of 54,000 children in China.

A Chinese family deals with tainted milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:02 PM CDT

Liao Shanfang, left, mother of twins Zhang Peng and Zhang Xue, looks at the children as their father, Zhang Rongwei, sits in their home in Yongan, eastern China's Shandong province, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Both children suffered from kidney stones developed after drinking tainted milk powder products. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - At the height of the corn harvest in the long muggy days of August, 10-month-old Zhang Peng began refusing to drink his milk, crying fitfully at night as he struggled to sleep. Soon his twin sister Zhang Xue fell ill, too.

China Investment Corp. may up stake in Blackstone (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 09:44 AM CDT

AP - China Investment Corp., the government's sovereign wealth fund, may raise its stake in U.S. investment group Blackstone LP after the two agreed to boost the Chinese company's ownership limit.

One Chinese engineer kidnapped in Pakistan recovered (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 08:27 AM CDT

Reuters - One of the two Chinese telecommunication engineers kidnapped by Taliban militants along with two Pakistanis has been recovered after seven weeks in captivity, a military spokesman said on Friday.

Pakistan: Chinese engineer free after abduction (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:43 AM CDT

AP - Pakistan's army says that security forces have found a Chinese engineer who had been kidnapped along with a colleague by Taliban militants in August.

China says shares blame for milk scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 05:32 AM CDT

A 9-month-old child, who suffers from kidney stones, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province October 16, 2008. (Jianan Yu/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said his government must assume some responsibility for the latest milk powder scandal in which at least four infants have died and tens of thousands fallen ill.

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