2009年10月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


As China's economy grows, so do mounds of garbage (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 02:51 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, May 31, 2009, Chinese women and men search through garbage for recyclable materials at a dump site in Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province. As more Chinese ride the nation's economic boom, a torrent of garbage is one result. Cities are bursting at the seams, and local officials struggle to cope. (AP Photo)AP - Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.


China mine owners flee after accident kills 14: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:58 AM PDT

Workers stand atop a mound of coal while loading a coal delivery truck west of Dingzhou, China, in June 2009. Police in southwest China are hunting for four owners of an illegal coal mine where an accident left 14 miners dead, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Police in southwest China are hunting for four owners of an illegal coal mine where an accident left 14 miners dead, state media reported Sunday.


China to stop mandatory hepatitis B tests: state media (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:26 AM PDT

A Chinese nurse prepares an injection at a hospital in Shanghai in 2002. China will stop mandatory hepatitis B tests for employees joining new companies and students enrolling in schools, state media said Sunday, after a court ruled the tests were illegal discrimination.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China will stop mandatory hepatitis B tests for employees joining new companies and students enrolling in schools, state media said Sunday, after a court ruled the tests were illegal discrimination.


50,000 short of water in south China drought (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:09 AM PDT

Map locating the city of Huizhou in China's Guangdong province. More than 50,000 people in southern China's Guangdong province are suffering from water shortages as a spreading drought has left farmers' fields dry and cracked, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/Graphics)AFP - More than 50,000 people in southern China's Guangdong province are suffering from water shortages as a spreading drought has left farmers' fields dry and cracked, state media reported Sunday.


China raises foreign fund limits to one bln dlrs (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 02:25 AM PDT

Customers change money at a foreign currency exchange in Hong Kong, March 2009. China's foreign exchange regulator said it had raised the limits on securities investment by foreign institutions to one billion dollars from 800 million dollars.(AFP/Antony Dickson)AFP - China's foreign exchange regulator said it had raised the limits on securities investment by foreign institutions to one billion dollars from 800 million dollars starting Monday.


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