Yahoo! News: World - China

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• Oil leak pollutes large stretch of China river (AP)
• China expected to grow 9.5% in 2010 (AFP)
• Nine dead in China firework factory blast: media (AFP)
• Shanghai dairy shut after melamine scare: report (Reuters)
• More than 600,000 Chinese visited Taiwan in 2009: media (AFP)

Oil leak pollutes large stretch of China river (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:33 AM PST AP - Hundreds of workers in northern China labored Saturday to contain a leak in a key oil pipeline that has left a 20-mile (33-kilometer) stretch of river polluted with diesel.

China expected to grow 9.5% in 2010 (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:06 AM PST AFP - China is expected to grow by about 9.5 percent in 2010, state media has quoted a government think tank as saying, exceeding forecasts made by outside experts for the new year.

Nine dead in China firework factory blast: media (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:12 AM PST AFP - Nine workers were killed and eight others injured by an explosion in a fireworks factory in northern China, state-run media reported Saturday.

Shanghai dairy shut after melamine scare: report (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:29 AM PST Reuters - A Shanghai dairy has been closed and three of its executives arrested for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical responsible for the death of six children in 2008, Xinhua news agency reported.

More than 600,000 Chinese visited Taiwan in 2009: media (AFP) Posted: 01 Jan 2010 09:24 PM PST AFP - More than 600,000 Chinese tourists visited Taiwan in 2009, state-run media reported on Saturday, amid warming relations between the two sides.

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