2010年8月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Panda gives birth at advanced age of 17: report (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 02:21 PM PDT

This photo taken in 2006 shows a panda climbing a tree at a research camp at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in China's southwestern Sichuan province. A panda bear mother managed to give birth in southwest China on Friday despite having reached the venerable age of 17, equivalent to a human in her 60s, state news agency Xinhua reported.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - A panda bear mother managed to give birth in southwest China on Friday despite having reached the venerable age of 17, equivalent to a human in her 60s, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Heavy rain and mudslides bring more misery to China (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:03 AM PDT

Residents carry their belongings past a flooded street in the landslide-hit Zhouqu County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province August 12, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Heavy rain across western China has caused more mudslides and flooding, killing at least 29 people and trapping more than 10,500 in the latest natural disasters to hit the country, state media said on Friday.

Rains leave 33 more dead in flood-ravaged China (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:33 AM PDT

An couch floats along a flooded street in Zhouqu, northwest China on August 12. Fresh torrential rains have battered several parts of western China, killing at least 33 more people and heightening fears of a disease outbreak in a mudslide-ravaged town where more than 1,150 have died.(AFP)AFP - Torrential rains on Friday battered several parts of western China, killing at least 33 people and heightening fears of a disease outbreak in a mudslide-ravaged town where more than 1,150 have died.

24 more die in China's flood-hit northwest (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 05:05 AM PDT

An elderly man grieves at the site of a mud slide that swept away part of the town of Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu province on Thursday Aug. 12, 2010. Overnight thunderstorms brought new misery to a remote area of northwestern China on Thursday as the death toll from weekend flooding and massive landslides rose. The rains triggered new mudslides, leaving five more missing, and another swollen river threatened to overflow.(AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - New landslides killed 24 people and left 24 missing in China's remote northwest as downpours threatened more devastation and made rescue work nearly impossible Friday in a region where more than 1,100 people have died.

US FDA head says China improving food, drug safety (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 03:57 AM PDT

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, left, leaves a laboratory building of Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 in Shanghai. Hamburg is in China for talks on improving the safety of goods exported to the United States. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says China is improving its oversight of its exporters following a slew of scandals over bogus or substandard drugs and foods ranging from vaccines and infant formula to dog chow.

Prominent Tibetan sentenced to life in prison (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 01:17 AM PDT

Chinese paramilitary policemen are seen on patrol in front of the Potala Palace in Tibet's capital, Lhasa. Chinese authorities have sentenced a leading Tibetan businessman to life in prison for funding exile groups, a rights organisation said Friday.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)AFP - Chinese authorities have sentenced a leading Tibetan businessman to life in prison for funding exile groups, a rights organisation said Friday.

Harvard tops Chinese university rankings (AFP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:57 AM PDT

Hoover Tower is seen through a window at the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University Campus in Stanford, California. Harvard topped a ranking of world universities published Friday by a Shanghai college for the eighth year running, followed by the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.

Once high-flying China official gets death sentence (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 12:32 AM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese court sentenced a former senior city economic planner to suspended death on Friday for taking bribes and abusing his power, state news agency Xinhua said, the latest in the Communist government's war on corruption.

Chinese admiral says U.S. drill courts confrontation (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:58 PM PDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama acts to assert a point as he delivers a lecture at the Delhi University in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)Reuters - A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a "chaotic" approach toward Beijing.

Chinese investors drop bid for AIA shares (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:39 PM PDT

China Life and two other Chinese investors have withdrawn from bidding for stakes in American International Group's Asian unit ahead of its planned initial public offering, state media said Friday.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China Life and two other Chinese investors have withdrawn from bidding for stakes in American International Group's Asian unit ahead of its planned initial public offering, state media said Friday.

China mudslides highlight cost of rapid economic growth (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 07:59 PM PDT

Residents are seen sitting outside damaged buildings as rescuers evacuate survivors after a deadly flood-triggered landslide hit Zhouqu, causing flooding in northwest China's Gansu province, on August 8. Mudslides devastating northwest China are a grim reminder of the high cost of the country's breakneck economic growth -- a development model experts say policymakers know must be changed.(AFP/File)AFP - Mudslides devastating northwest China are a grim reminder of the high cost of the country's breakneck economic growth -- a development model experts say policymakers know must be changed.

US-Vietnam ties strengthen with military exercises, to China's chagrin (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 10:50 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In the latest twist to Southeast Asia's blood-stained history, this week the USS John McCain is training Vietnamese forces in the South China Sea in search-and-rescue.

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