2009年8月19日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Lead poisoning stokes tensions in Chinese town (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:53 PM PDT

Children affected by lead poisoning from the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant receive medical treatment at a hospital in Fengxiang county, West of Xi'an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.  Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guarded the Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Farmer Wang Zhifan jabs a stubby finger toward the sprawling smelter blamed for poisoning hundreds of local children with lead. He bares his yellowed teeth and spits hard.


Deaths, lung damage linked to nanoparticles in China (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Seven young Chinese women suffered permanent lung damage and two of them died after working for months without proper protection in a paint factory using nanoparticles, Chinese researchers reported on Wednesday.

Chinese city aims for greener growth (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 07:23 AM PDT

Chinese energy giant CNOOC and Anglo-Dutch firm Shell petrochemical plant is seen in Daya Bay, southern China. Huizhou is also becoming one of China's petrochemical and energy hubs, with ambitious plans for several refineries at Daya Bay, a coastal area about 50 km (31 miles) from downtown.(AFP/File/Laurent Fievet)AFP - The mayor of Huizhou, Li Ruqiu, likes to tell a story that he believes highlights the southern Chinese city's environmental credentials.


China panda gives birth to twins: state media (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:55 AM PDT

A female giant panda holds her cub at the Chiang Mai zoo in Thailand. A giant panda in northern China has given birth to twins, state media said in rare good news for a species facing the threat of extinction.(AFP/CHIANG MAI ZOO/File/AFP/File)AFP - A giant panda in northern China has given birth to twins, state media said Wednesday in rare good news for a species facing the threat of extinction.


Coca-Cola, Pepsi on Beijing's worst polluter list (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:23 AM PDT

A man is reflected on a polluted river in Beijing. The Beijing plants of US soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been listed as among the top 12 factories causing major water pollution in China's capital, the city government has announced.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - The Beijing plants of US soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been listed as among the top 12 factories causing major water pollution in China's capital, the city government has announced.


China wants petitioners' cases solved locally (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:23 AM PDT

AP - China's ruling Communist Party has ordered local officials to meet regularly with people complaining of injustices in a bid to stop them from traveling to Beijing to petition the central government.

Detained Rio Chinese staff healthy, calm, lawyers say (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Three detained Chinese employees of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto appeared healthy and calm, their lawyers said on Wednesday after visiting them earlier this week -- the first such meetings since their detentions.

SOHO China buys Morgan Stanley arm for 359mln dlrs (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 11:30 PM PDT

Property developer SOHO China said it has agreed to buy a top Shanghai office building from US investment bank Morgan Stanley for around 2.45 billion yuan (358.7 million dollars).(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - Property developer SOHO China said it has agreed to buy a top Shanghai office building from US investment bank Morgan Stanley for around 2.45 billion yuan (358.7 million dollars).


Beijing police anti-terror patrols for anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 09:08 PM PDT

Police take part in an anti-terror drill in Beijing. Authorities will step up their efforts ahead of the 60th anniversary on October 1 of the founding of communist China, with more street patrols and checkpoints, state media have said.(AFP/File)AFP - Beijing police will step up their anti-terror efforts ahead of the 60th anniversary on October 1 of the founding of communist China, with more street patrols and checkpoints, state media said Wednesday.


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