2008年11月17日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China

FDA to open China offices after product scares (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:03 AM CST

AP - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will open three offices in China this week in an unprecedented effort to improve the safety of exports headed to America amid recurring product safety scares.

China shares rise for 4th day on stimulus optimism (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:04 AM CST

AP - Chinese shares rose Monday for a fourth day in active trading on confidence in the government's economic stimulus package.

China leader to launch free trade talks in Costa Rica (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:46 AM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao waves upon arrival at Juan Santamaria international airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Hu arrived in Costa Rica in the highest-level visit by a Chinese official to the country, just over a year after it gave up six decades of ties with Taiwan.(AFP/Mayela Lopez)AFP - China and Costa Rica were to launch free trade talks here Monday in a historic visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao at the start of a Latin America tour including Cuba and Peru.


33 miners trapped in flooded coal mine in China (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:45 AM CST

AP - Flood waters have trapped more than 30 workers in a coal mine in central China.

Flooding traps 34 in Chinese coal mine: state media (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:16 AM CST

Map of China locating the area where at least 34 workers were trapped in a flooded coal mine Monday, according to state media.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Thirty-four workers were trapped when a coal mine in central China's Henan province flooded Monday, state media reported.


Death toll from China subway collapse rises to five: state press (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 01:39 AM CST

Chinese rescue divers look for survivors after a road collapsed into a subway tunnel under construction, in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province. The death toll rose to five on Monday, with authorities warning 16 other people trapped underground were likely dead, state press said.(AFP)AFP - The death toll from a subway tunnel collapse in eastern China rose to five on Monday, with authorities warning 16 other people trapped underground were likely dead, state press said.


18 people died after a bus overturned in Tibet (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:40 AM CST

AP - The Chinese government says 18 people have died after a bus overturned in Tibet.

China jails two Olympic ticket scalpers: state media (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:18 AM CST

Chinese scalpers sell tickets outside the Olympic basketball stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in August. Two men who tried to scalp over 500 Olympic Games tickets have been jailed and fined a total of 894,000 yuan (131,000 dollars) in the biggest such case in Beijing so far, state media said Monday.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - Two men who tried to scalp over 500 Olympic Games tickets have been jailed and fined a total of 894,000 yuan (131,000 dollars) in the biggest such case in Beijing so far, state media said Monday.


China's oil demand falls sharply amid global crisis: top producer (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:04 AM CST

A worker stacks empty oil drums at a yard in Tangshan city near the Chinese capital, Beijing. China's demand for oil is falling sharply and inventories are surging as the global economic downturn is gradually being felt, China National Petroleum Corp has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - China's demand for oil is falling sharply and inventories are surging as the global economic downturn is gradually being felt, said China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).


18 die in Tibet bus wreck: police (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:03 AM CST

File photo shows Tibetan woman walking on a road through the Himalayan region of Tibet. Eighteen people were killed and 29 injured when a passenger bus flipped over on a mountainous road in China's Himalayan region of Tibet, a local policeman said Monday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Eighteen people were killed and 29 injured when a passenger bus flipped over on a mountainous road in China's Himalayan region of Tibet, a local policeman said Monday.


Milk scandal leaves Chinese hungry for information (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:03 AM CST

File photo shows Chinese shoppers buying vegetables at a supermarket in Beijing. In China's supermarkets, an apparent shift is taking place that suggests one of the legacies of the nation's contaminated milk scandal is that consumers are caring more about what goes into the food they buy.(AFP/File)AFP - In China's supermarkets, an apparent shift is taking place that suggests one of the legacies of the nation's contaminated milk scandal is that consumers are caring more about what goes into the food they buy.


Rescuers seek survivors in China subway collapse (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 08:52 PM CST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency,  the rescue operation is carried out at the site of the collapsed subway tunnel in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008.   Rescuers searched Sunday for 17 workers missing after the subway tunnel they were building in eastern China caved in, killing at least three people, the state news agency said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Xiaochuan)AP - Rescuers searched Monday for 17 workers missing after a subway tunnel they were building in eastern China caved in, killing at least four people, the state news agency said.


Chinese official asserts right to build aircraft carrier: report (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 08:39 PM CST

File photo shows anti-aircraft missile launchers and 100-mm guns on a Chinese guided missile destroyer. A top Chinese military official asserted his country's right to build an aircraft carrier in a British newspaper interview Monday, without commenting directly on whether it had decided to do so.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - A top Chinese military official asserted his country's right to build an aircraft carrier in a British newspaper interview Monday, without commenting directly on whether it had decided to do so.


China's Hu to launch trade talks on historic visit to Costa Rica (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 06:32 PM CST

Chinese President Hu Jintao waves upon arrival at Juan Santamaria international airport in Alajuela, 18km away from San Jose, Costa Rica. Jintao arrived Sunday in Costa Rica in the highest-level visit by a Chinese official to the country, just over a year after it gave up six decades of ties with Taiwan.(AFP/Mayela Lopez)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived Sunday in Costa Rica in the highest-level visit by a Chinese official to the country, just over a year after it gave up six decades of ties with Taiwan.


Tibet envoys say China talks a failure (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST

Tibetan monks offer prayers in Dharamshala. Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, said on Sunday that their most recent talks with China had failed, as the Tibet movement gathered in north India to assess its future.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)AFP - Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, said on Sunday that their most recent talks with China had failed, as the Tibet movement gathered in north India to assess its future.


Hu Jintao to visit struggling ally Cuba (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 06:28 AM CST

China's President Hu Jintao speaks at the opening ceremony of the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 24, 2008. (Michael Reynolds/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - China's President Hu Jintao travels to Cuba on Monday for a close-up look at the government of new President Raul Castro, a fellow communist struggling to lead his island nation through the devastating effects of three hurricanes and the international financial crisis.


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