2008年10月22日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Wal-Mart sets new rules for China suppliers (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 03:58 AM CDT

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Wednesday it will set new quality standards for its suppliers amid a scare over toxic milk products that have sickened tens of thousands of babies across China.

Wal-Mart toughens standards for Chinese suppliers (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 03:30 AM CDT

Wal-Mart Chief Executive Lee Scott speaks at a company-sponsored conference in Beijing October 22, 2008. Wal-Mart Stores Inc plans to crack down on its Chinese suppliers, announcing on Wednesday steps to enforce stricter quality and environmental standards for the products it sells. (Christina Hu/Reuters)Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, says it will crack down on its Chinese suppliers by enforcing stricter quality and environmental standards for the products it sells.

Crime crackdown in SW China yields 10,000 arrests: report (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:23 AM CDT

File photo shows police officers on patrol on the streets in China's southwestern city of Chongqing. Police in Chongqing detained nearly 10,000 people in an 80-day crime crackdown, state media reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Chinese police in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing detained nearly 10,000 people in an 80-day crime crackdown, state media reported on Wednesday.

UN urges China to revamp food safety after milk crisis (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:18 AM CDT

A dairy farmer milks her cows in Shelawusu village, in the Inner Mongolia region of China on October 7. China must change its approach to food safety, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing outdated thinking may have prolonged a milk crisis that sickened thousands of babies and damaged the country's image.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China must change its approach to food safety, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing outdated thinking may have prolonged a milk crisis that sickened thousands of babies and damaged the country's image.

Chinese official suspected of defecting to France (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:05 AM CDT

File photo of Paris taken from the top of the Montparnasse tower. A middle-ranking Chinese communist party official has not returned from an official visit to Paris, state media reported Wednesday, amid increasing speculation he has defected to France.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)AFP - A middle-ranking Chinese communist party official has not returned from an official visit to Paris, state media reported Wednesday, amid increasing speculation he has defected to France.

China needs more coherent food-safety system: U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:37 AM CDT

A food safety analyst conducts testing of China-made milk products at the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) office in Alabang, south of Manila October 2, 2008. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)Reuters - China, fighting a spreading tainted milk scandal, needs a more coherent food-safety system, with unified laws, one overarching watchdog and faster sharing of information, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

China urges global cooperation on financial crisis (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:15 AM CDT

AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao expressed concerns over the ailing U.S. financial system in a phone conversation with U.S. President George W. Bush, state media reported Wednesday.

Taiwanese protesters attack Chinese envoy (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2008 11:58 PM CDT

AP - Angry protesters in southern Taiwan assaulted an envoy from rival China on Tuesday, part of an escalating reaction by the pro-independence opposition to President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of greater engagement with Beijing.

China's Hu tells Bush he hopes US finance measures will work: report (AFP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2008 10:58 PM CDT

Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) and US President George W. Bush in Beijing in early August. The two leaders have discussed the global financial turmoil by phone, with Hu expressing hope that US efforts would help curb the crisis.(AFP/Pool/File/Guang Niu)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao discussed the global financial turmoil by phone with his US counterpart George W. Bush, expressing hope that US efforts would help curb the crisis, state media said.

China says kidnappings won't affect Sudan policy (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2008 05:50 AM CDT

AP - China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Beijing's close economic ties with Sudan wouldn't be affected by last week's kidnappings of nine Chinese oil workers in the country's southwest.

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