2010年8月21日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Four die, 64,000 evacuated in China-N.Korea border floods (AFP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 12:42 PM PDT

A villager looks at a destroyed home after a flash flood swept through Kuandian, near the China-North Korea border in northeast China's Liaoning province. Four people died and more than 64,000 were evacuated in China as heavy rain sparked serious floods along the North Korean border, with Pyongyang's state media warning of AFP - Four people died and more than 64,000 were evacuated in China as heavy rain sparked serious floods along the North Korean border, with Pyongyang's state media warning of "devastating" consequences.


Rains batter China anew; 50,000 evacuated in flood (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 04:44 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, roads along the Yalu River are flooded in Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning province, on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. The Yalu River that marks China's border with North Korea breached a dike Saturday after torrential rains, inundating parts of the Chinese city of Dandong and forcing the evacuation of more than 50,000 people. (AP Photos/Xinhua, Zhao Guiliang)  ** NO SALES **AP - Swelled by torrential rains, the Yalu river that marks the Chinese-North Korean border breached its banks on both sides Saturday, inundating communities and forcing the evacuation of more than 50,000 people in China.


AIDS activists: Chinese colleague detained (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 02:26 AM PDT

AP - Police in central China have detained an AIDS activist who contracted the virus as a boy and whose tireless campaigning for the rights of those with the disease angered local authorities, his fellow activists said Saturday.

50,000 evacuated in China flooding near N.Korea border (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:41 PM PDT

A villager looks at a destroyed home after a flash flood swept through Kuandian, near the China-North Korea border in northeast China's Liaoning province. Four people died and more than 64,000 were evacuated in China as heavy rain sparked serious floods along the North Korean border, with Pyongyang's state media warning of AFP - Three people were missing and more than 50,000 others evacuated in northeast China Saturday after flooding along the Yalu river, which forms the border with North Korea, officials and state media said.


China seized 100 tons of melamine-laced milk powder (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:35 PM PDT

Reuters - China has seized more than 100 tons of melamine-contaminated milk powder in its northern provinces, state media reported late Friday, the latest case of food safety problems in the world's most populous country.

Over 50,000 evacuated as floods hit northeast China (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:27 PM PDT

Reuters - More than 50,000 people have so far been evacuated from a city in northeastern China after flooding from a rain-swollen river that also borders North Korea, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday.

Six held in new tainted milk cases in China: media (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:06 PM PDT

A customer is seen in a powdered milk aisle at a Beijing supermarket. Police in China have arrested six people and detained 41 others for allegedly distributing milk powder tainted with the same chemical which killed infants in a 2008 scandal, according to state media.(AFP/File/Franko Lee)AFP - Police in China have arrested six people and detained 41 others for allegedly distributing milk powder tainted with the same chemical which killed infants in a 2008 scandal, state media said Saturday.


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