2009年11月24日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China

China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 12:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a child cries as he waits for ultrasonic scan to detect for problems related to consuming tainted milk formula at a hospital, in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei province. China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises. The men were the only people put to death in a scheme to boost profits by lacing milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine; another 19 were convicted and received lesser sentences. At least six children died after drinking the adulterated formula, and more than 300,000 were sickened. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises.

China calls for stepped up climate cooperation with EU (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 09:10 AM PST

China called on the European Union to step up cooperation on climate change. AFP - China called on the European Union Tuesday to step up cooperation on climate change, saying global warming would be at the top of the agenda at next week's China-EU summit.

China blast mine 'overcrowded': safety official (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 08:44 AM PST

Chinese rescuers bring in wooden logs to use as beams into a mine near Hegang in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on November 22. Too many miners were below ground at the mine where 104 workers were killed in a gas explosion, a safety official charged, as rescuers pressed on Tuesday with the hunt for four missing men.(AFP/File)AFP - Too many miners were below ground at a Chinese coal mine where 104 workers were killed in a gas explosion, a safety official said Tuesday as rescuers gave up hope for four men still missing.

China executes two over tainted milk scandal (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 07:41 AM PST

Grandmother Zheng Shuzhen holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter Zhou Mengxin at the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing, May 2009. Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China executed two men on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal last year that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.

China moves to protect pandas from swine flu (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 04:03 AM PST

AP - A panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.

Chinese banks to be punished for risky lending (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 03:01 AM PST

A Chinese bank officer counts a stack of 100-yuan notes at a bank in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province. China has issued a rare warning that it will impose curbs on banks unless they beef up their defences against bad loans as Beijing tries to put the brakes on a massive lending spree.(AFP/File/AFP)AFP - China has issued a rare warning that it will impose curbs on banks unless they beef up their defences against bad loans as Beijing tries to put the brakes on a massive lending spree.

Renowned Chinese translator Yang Xianyi dies (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 01:34 AM PST

In this October 2006 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, Yang Xianyi, one of China's well-known translators, known for rendering numerous ancient Chinese classics into English, including 'The Dream of the Red Mansions,' poses at his home in Beijing. Yang died in Beijing on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, Xinhua said Tuesday. He was 94. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tang Shizeng)AP - Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. He was 94.

China backs writers in fight against Google Books (AFP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 11:34 PM PST

China said Google has probably breached copyright laws by scanning Chinese books for its online library and supported writers to AFP - China said Google has probably breached copyright laws by scanning Chinese books for its online library and supported writers to "defend their rights", state media reported Tuesday.

China executes two for tainted milk scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 11:29 PM PST

Staff members of the local quality supervision bureau empty tainted milk power packets at a garbage dump site in Shenzhen, Guangdong province September 19, 2008. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China on Tuesday executed two people for their role in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and further sullied the made-in-China brand.

China to send two pandas to Australia (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 07:55 PM PST

AP - China will send two giant pandas to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program.

China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 06:34 PM PST

FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)AP - A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year — an apparent government attempt to squelch such information.

Obama must help Chinese dissident: US lawmakers (AFP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 06:22 PM PST

File photo of Republican Representative Chris Smith, a long-time critic of Beijing's rights record, said President Barack Obama should AFP - US President Barack Obama should "pick up the phone" and urge Chinese President Hu Jintao personally to ease pressure on a Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, US lawmakers said Monday.

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