2008年11月2日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Taiwan says no violence during China envoy visit (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:59 AM CDT

Former Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian rallies opposition supporters in front of a sign that reads 'Reject China'  during an anti-China demonstration in Taichung, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. Taiwan's pro-independence opposition Democratic Progressive Party said it would stage a three-day sit-in in Taipei to protest the upcoming visit by a top Chinese negotiator. (AP Photo)AP - Taiwan's president urged those opposed to a top Chinese envoy's visit to keep their protests peaceful, less than two weeks after demonstrators attacked another representative from Beijing.


Death toll rises in China mine blast: state media (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:32 AM CDT

Coal miners shrouded in thick coal dust in the mining town of Xiaoyi in China's Shanxi province. The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has risen to 24, as rescuers gave up hope of finding 20 miners alive in a separate accident, state media has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 24 on Sunday, as rescuers gave up hope of finding 20 miners alive in a separate accident, state media said.


China vows to wipe out tainted animal feed (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 12:56 AM CDT

Employees work in a small road-side bakery in Beijing October 31, 2008. (Reinhard Krause/Reuters)Reuters - China has vowed to wipe out the "dark" trade of adding the chemical melamine to animal feed, with at least one industry expert claiming fake feed is an established trade in parts of the country's rural heartlands.


China's Canton Fair suffers drop in attendance (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 11:53 PM CDT

AP - China opened the final session of the Canton Fair — the country's biggest trade show — on Sunday amid complaints that attendance has been dismal because of the financial crisis clobbering the nation's biggest export markets in the U.S. and Europe.

China condemns sacked Japan general's war comments (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 11:38 AM CDT

Reuters - China was strongly critical on Saturday of an essay by a Japanese air force chief of staff who said Japan was not an aggressor in Asia in World War Two and was later dismissed for airing those views.

Negotiator: China to give pandas to Taiwan (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 06:25 AM CDT

AP - China and Taiwan plan to exchange rare animals in a sign of their increasingly warm ties, a Taiwanese negotiator said Saturday.

China: Feed makers defied rule in adding chemical (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 06:11 AM CDT

A workers sorts eggs into grades after they go through ultraviolet disinfection scan at a major eggs production factory in suburban Beijing, China, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Three more Chinese brands of eggs containing melamine have been identified and a local government has acknowledged that officials knew about the contamination for a month before it was publicly disclosed. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Animal feed makers deliberately added an industrial chemical to their products, ignoring a year-old government rule meant to protect China's food supply, a government official said.


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