2008年10月19日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

Suspended death sentence for crooked Beijing vice mayor (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 10:22 PM CDT

The AFP - Beijing's former vice mayor has received a suspended death sentence for corruption, state media said Sunday, in a case that raised concerns over graft in the preparations for this year's Olympics.


Former Beijing mayor gets suspended death sentence (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 09:25 PM CDT

Reuters - A former vice mayor of Beijing has been given a suspended death sentence for taking millions of yuan in bribes, state media said on Sunday.

Wal-Mart seeks growth in small town China (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 11:08 AM CDT

Customers walk out toward a  Wal-Mart supermarket in Loudi,  Hunan Province, China Friday June 20, 2008. Maoming, Wuhu and Loudi are Chinese cities so far in the boonies that the popular Lonely Planet travel guide doesn't even mention them, but Wal-Mart has found them. The American mega-retailer is making an aggressive push into China's smaller markets as economic growth spreads to the hinterlands. The expansion is a key part of Wal-Mart's attempt to gain a bigger foothold in what could become the world's largest retail market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Maoming, Wuhu and Loudi.


China's government admits failings in milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 08:37 AM CDT

A Chinese worker checks ingredients in milk products in a lab of Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China's largest dairy producers, in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia region, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. Italy has discovered two containers of milk and one of yogurt containing melamine, the industrial chemical that contaminated milk powder in China and hospitalized thousands of babies, the Health Ministry said Thursday. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - In a rare admission for a Chinese leader, Premier Wen Jiabao said the government is partly responsible for the tainted milk scandal that has been blamed in the deaths of four babies and shaken consumer confidence.


Recall of Chinese herbal injections widened (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 08:34 AM CDT

AP - The manufacturer of an injectable herbal remedy blamed in three deaths in China's southwest has voluntarily widened its recall, the nation's drug monitoring agency said Saturday.

China drug firm recalls ginseng injections after deaths (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 07:24 AM CDT

The Chinese manufacturer of a ginseng injection that killed three people has recalled all its injection products, the country's drug safety watchdog has said.(AFP/File/Mychele Daniau)AFP - The Chinese manufacturer of a ginseng injection that killed three people has recalled all its injection products, the country's drug safety watchdog said Saturday.


China to help Pakistan build two more nuclear plants (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 06:08 AM CDT

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Energy-hungry Pakistan said on Saturday that China had agreed to help it build two more nuclear power plants in a major boost to the country's long-term plans to end crippling electricity shortages.(AFP/File/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - Energy-hungry Pakistan said on Saturday that China had agreed to help it build two more nuclear power plants in a major boost to the country's long-term plans to end crippling electricity shortages.


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