2009年6月28日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


In China, parents mourn children abducted by traffickers (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2009 05:24 PM PDT

Reuters - In the quiet village of Shang Di, wedged among factory towns in southern China, Deng Huidong wheels out a dusty two-seater tricycle that her 9-month-old son rode the day he was abducted outside her family house in 2007.

Nearly-completed Shanghai high-rise falls over (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:17 PM PDT

A collapsed 13-storey residential building in Shanghai which fell down on June 27. The nearly-completed apartment complex toppled over, killing a worker and raising concerns in China's largest city over construction standards, state media has reported.(AFP)AFP - A nearly-completed 13-storey Shanghai apartment building toppled over, killing a worker and raising concerns in China's largest city over construction standards, state media has reported.


Chinese officials jailed for roles in landslide (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 10:30 PM PDT

Twelve officials have been jailed for negligence and abuses of power that led to at least 277 people being killed in a landslide in northern China last year, state media has reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Twelve officials have been jailed for negligence and abuses of power that led to at least 277 people being killed in a landslide in northern China last year, state media has reported.


Snitching for China leads to sorrow and exile (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 09:01 PM PDT

In this June 19, 2009 photo, Phromlak Sakpichaimongkol, a lawyer of Li Yuzhou, a former Chinese spy, holds an appeal letter for Li to be submitted to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) regional office in Bangkok, Thailand. Li, his wife Li Kejun and their two children have had their refugee status revoked by the U.N. and fear they will be deported back to China. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Dozens of small white scars mark the inside of Li Yuzhou's left arm, where he slashed himself repeatedly with a piece from a broken tea cup. The scars speak of his terror of being deported from Thailand back to China.


12 China officials jailed for deadly landslide (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2009 07:59 PM PDT

AP - A Chinese court has jailed 12 officials for a mine accident last year that triggered a landslide which swept through a northern village and killed at least 277 people, an official said Sunday.
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