2010年7月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


At least 12 dead in blast at China factory (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:47 AM PDT

Local residents carry a man injured during an explosion at a plastics factory in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, July 28, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyReuters - At least 12 people died and 15 were seriously injured on Wednesday after an explosion at an abandoned plastics and chemicals factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, state television said.


Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 08:15 AM PDT

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, flood water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir in Jiyuan, central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River launched a sluice with the water outflux monitored at 15,000 cubic meters per second on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Miao Qiunao) ** NO SALES **AP - Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many areas of the country.


Chemical barrels washed into China river (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:27 AM PDT

Chemical barrels float in the Songhua river in China's Jilin province. More than a thousand barrels of explosive chemicals were washed into a major waterway in northeastern China, in the country's latest environmental accident.(AFP/Str)AFP - More than a thousand barrels of explosive chemicals were washed into a major waterway in northeastern China on Wednesday, state media said, in the country's latest environmental accident.


Floods trap 30,000 in China's northeast (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:23 AM PDT

Workers clean up debris of demolished buildings along the bank of the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. More than 30,000 people are thought to be trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China, as torrential rain that has killed over 300 in two weeks continues.(AFP/File/AFP)AFP - More than 30,000 people are thought to be trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China, state media said Wednesday, as torrential rain that has killed over 300 in two weeks continues.


China pipeline blast leaves 12 dead, over 300 hurt (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:04 AM PDT

Firefighters inspect an explosion at a plastics factory in Nanjing. At least 12 people died and more than 300 were injured by a powerful explosion triggered when a chemical pipeline ignited in eastern China.(AFP/AFP)AFP - At least 12 people died and more than 300 were injured by a powerful explosion triggered when a chemical pipeline ignited in eastern China on Wednesday, state media said.


Huge blast at China factory kills 12, scores hurt (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 05:42 AM PDT

This photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the building debris near the explosion site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday July 28, 2010. The powerful blast caused by a suspected gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least five people and seriously injuring 28. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Sun Can) ** NO SALES **AP - A powerful blast caused by a suspected gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and seriously injuring more than a dozen others.


China trains fur farm foxes to combat rat plague (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.

China to send 2 pandas to Japan in diplomatic move (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:32 AM PDT

AP - China has announced plans to send two of its prized giant pandas to Japan, the latest installment of panda diplomacy aimed at warming the two countries' often-strained relations.

China stages major military exercise: state media (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:10 AM PDT

Models of Chinese rockets are seen on display at a military museum in Beijing. China has staged a large-scale military exercise on its east coast, state media reported, just as South Korea and the United States conduct their own major naval drill opposed by Beijing.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China has staged a large-scale military exercise on its east coast, state media reported, just as South Korea and the United States conduct their own major naval drill opposed by Beijing.


IMF: China currency undervalued but policy sound (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 10:57 PM PDT

AP - The International Monetary Fund said China's yuan is undervalued in a mildly worded assessment Wednesday of its controversial currency controls and praised Beijing's response to the global crisis.

Clinton comments, Korea drills roil US-China ties (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 10:19 PM PDT

Capt. Daniel Grieco, executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) speaks Tuesday, July 27, 2010 to Republic of Korea Minister of National Defense Tae Young Kim, second from right, and members of the Republic of Korea congress in flight deck control aboard the ship. The Republic of Korea and the United States are conducting the combined alliance maritime and air readiness exercise 'Invincible Spirit' in the seas east of the Korean peninsula from July 25-28, 2010. This is the first in a series of joint military exercises that will occur over the coming months.  (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC2 John J. Mike)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism of Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has angered Beijing's leadership and quietly pleased Asian countries concerned about China's expanding military power.


Report: Explosion at China factory injures 100 (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:36 PM PDT

Fire burns at the explosion site at a plastics factory in Nanjing, Jiangsu province July 28, 2010. At least six people died and dozens were seriously injured on Wednesday after the explosion at the abandoned plastics and chemicals factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, state media said. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - State media says an explosion at a factory in eastern China has injured about 100 people.


In north China, corruption rules the coal mines (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:03 PM PDT

A miner prepares to start work at a coal mine in Xian, in northern China's Shanxi province. In China's coal-rich Shanxi province, the source of much of the fuel that powers the energy-hungry nation, there is an oft-repeated saying: AFP - In China's coal-rich Shanxi province, the source of much of the fuel that powers the energy-hungry nation, there is an oft-repeated saying: "To make money, all you have to do is dig a hole."


China's Zijin faces gold limit after toxic spill (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:39 PM PDT

Workers drain away polluted water near the Zijin copper mine in Shanghang in mid July after pollution from the mine contaminated the Ting river, a major waterway in southeast China's Fujian province. The country's top gold producer has said it had been ordered to limit production at its gold mine located near the copper mine that was the source of the recent toxic spill.(AFP/File)AFP - China's Zijin Mining Group said Wednesday it had been ordered to limit production at a gold mine located near a separate copper mine that was the source of a toxic spill.


Man detained in China over zoo panda death (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:21 PM PDT

A man has been detained over the poisoning death of an endangered panda in a Chinese zoo, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest case spotlighting risks to captive animals in China.(AFP/File)AFP - A man has been detained over the poisoning death of an endangered panda in a Chinese zoo, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest case spotlighting risks to captive animals in China.


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