2008年10月28日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China firm apologizes for selling tainted eggs (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:15 AM CDT

AP - A Chinese company apologized to consumers in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the territory's food safety regulators found excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in eggs sold by the firm.

China condemns Sudan killings as terrorist crime (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:04 AM CDT

Reuters - China Tuesday condemned the killing of five of its citizens in Sudan as a terrorist crime but said it would continue investing in the volatile, oil-producing African country.

Former Beijing official appeals death sentence (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 03:55 AM CDT

AP - A former Beijing vice mayor who supervised Olympic construction has appealed his death sentence for a corruption conviction, his attorney said Tuesday.

China shares rebound, tracking regional recoveries (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 03:42 AM CDT

AP - Chinese stocks rebounded in afternoon trading Tuesday after falling to their lowest level in more than two years Monday. The rally followed surges in regional markets as governments around Asia pledged market-boosting measures.

Suspect eggs pulled off shelves in southern China: report (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 03:36 AM CDT

File photo shows a Chinese egg vendor in Beijing. Eggs suspected of being tainted with the industrial chemical melamine have been pulled from shelves of major retailers in southern China, state press reported Tuesday.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Wal-Mart has begun pulling a major brand of eggs from its Chinese stores as a precaution after the chemical melamine was detected in them in Hong Kong, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.


China says hostages died during failed rescue (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 03:05 AM CDT

AP - Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan died during a botched rescue attempt, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Kidnappers kill Chinese hostages in Sudan (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 02:24 AM CDT

A burnt down vehicle is seen on a deserted street in Abyei town in this picture released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) on July 4, 2008. (Tim McKulka/UNMIS/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Kidnappers killed five Chinese oil workers on Monday out of nine they had been holding hostage in central Sudan for more than a week, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry said.


Intel Capital to invest $20 mln in solar venture (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2008 02:20 AM CDT

AP - Shrugging off gloom over the economic outlook, Intel Capital on Tuesday announced its first "clean-tech" initiative in China, a $20 million equity investment in Trony Solar Holdings Co.

China journalists demand "hush money" at coal mine (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 10:48 PM CDT

A miner works at a workshop of a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi province September 17, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - China is investigating dozens of "journalists," some genuine, some not, who demanded hush money from a coal mine after a pit accident killed one person, a newspaper said on Tuesday.


Sudan: Kidnappers kill 5 Chinese oil workers (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 07:35 PM CDT

Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Ali al-Sadiq speaks to reporters following a meeting with China's envoy to Darfur Liu Guijin in Khartoum on October 26. Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan nine days ago have been killed and two wounded, Ali al-Sadiq told Sudan state television on Monday.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AP - Kidnappers who abducted nine Chinese oil workers killed five of them execution-style on Monday, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.


China's hidden coal cost equal to 7.0 pct of GDP: green groups (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 11:34 AM CDT

Chinese coal workers collect the pieces of coal for processing at a mine in Huaian, central China's Anhui province in September 2008. China's dependency on coal as its major energy source is creating hidden environmental and other costs worth more than seven percent of its annual gross domestic product, green groups said Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - China's dependency on coal as its major energy source is creating hidden environmental and other costs worth more than seven percent of its annual gross domestic product, green groups said Monday.


Chinese villagers, guards clash over land payments (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 10:19 AM CDT

AP - Scores of villagers in a remote Chinese timber region ransacked the offices of a forestry company and fought with security guards, accusing the company of paying too little for use of their land, a state news agency said Monday.
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