2008年11月16日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China should improve rural public services: UN (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:52 AM CST

AP - China's rapid economic growth could be at risk unless it moves quickly to provide rural areas with better education, health, social security and employment services, a U.N. report said Sunday.

At least 3 dead in China subway tunnel collapse (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 01:50 AM CST

A vehicle lies trapped at the site of a collapsed subway tunnel in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, November 16, 2008. (Steven Shi/Reuters)Reuters - At least three people were killed and 17 more were trapped when a half-built subway tunnel in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou collapsed, leaving a huge crater that also engulfed 11 vehicles, state media said on Sunday.


Aftershock shakes quake-hit region in China (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 11:43 PM CST

File photo shows a graphic illustrating a powerful earthquake. An aftershock of magnitude 4.8 has hit southwest China, shaking a region that was devastated in the Wenchuan earthquake in May.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - An aftershock of magnitude 4.8 hit southwest China early Sunday, shaking a region that was devastated in the Wenchuan earthquake in May, the US Geological Survey and Chinese state media reported.


Eleven killed as bus overturns in China: state media (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 09:49 PM CST

File photo shows a Chinese paramedic with an emergency response ambulance. Eleven people have been killed and 39 injured after a speeding bus overturned on an expressway in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.(AFP/Daimler/File/Doug Kanter)AFP - Eleven people were killed and 39 injured when a speeding bus overturned on an expressway in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, state media reported.


Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 12:49 PM CST

Li Xiaoyan sits on the lap of her mother Li Aiqing at their home in Liti village, near Runan, in China's Henan province, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. Li Xiaoyan's nine-month-old twin sister, Li Xiaokai who had been drinking a brand of milk formula linked to the melamine scandal died from kidney failure. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.


EU slaps trade charges on Chinese candles (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 09:05 AM CST

AP - Chinese candle exporters will be hit with extra charges when selling in Europe to punish some producers for selling below cost, the European Union said Saturday.

China subway tunnel collapses; 1 dead, 16 missing (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 08:07 AM CST

AP - A subway tunnel under construction in eastern China collapsed Saturday, trapping workers and creating a huge crater into which more than 10 vehicles plunged, a local official said. At least one person died and 16 were missing, state media reported.
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