2011年5月1日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Hotel fire in China kills 10, injures 35 (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 06:01 AM PDT

A fireman walks through chared debris after battling a blaze. A fire at a hotel in northeastern China has killed 10 people and injured 35, state media have reported, in the latest deadly accident to highlight lax Chinese fire safety.(AFP/File)AFP - A fire at a hotel in northeastern China killed 10 people and injured 35 on Sunday, state media reported, in the latest deadly accident to highlight lax Chinese safety standards.


Hotel fire in northeast China kills 10, injures 35 (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 04:44 AM PDT

In this photo distributed by China's Xinhua news agency, spectators look at a hotel after fire in Tonghua, northeast China's Jilin province, on Sunday May 1, 2011. The fire at the hotel in northeastern China killed at least 10 people and injured 35 others Sunday, while lightning sparked several forest fires in another part of the country, a state news agency said. (AP Photo/Xinhua) NO SALESAP - A fire at a hotel in northeastern China killed 10 people and injured 35 others Sunday, while lightning sparked several forest fires in another part of the country, a state news agency said.


China's new indoor smoking ban takes effect (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 01:51 AM PDT

AP - China's latest push to ban smoking in indoor public venues came into effect Sunday, but the vaguely defined expanded rules were not expected to dramatically reduce the country's heavy tobacco addiction.

Survey shows China's manufacturing eases in April (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 11:18 PM PDT

AP - China's manufacturing sector eased in April, a survey showed Sunday, suggesting that the government's efforts to cool the economy may be having some effect.

China manufacturing activity slips in April (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:56 PM PDT

A vegetable market stall vendor counts money at a market in Hefei, eastern China. Soaring food and housing prices are a major bugbear for China's leaders, anxious about the potential for inflation to spark social unrest in the country of more than 1.3 billion people.(AFP/File)AFP - Manufacturing activity in China slowed slightly in April and the costs of raw materials fell, according to official data released Sunday, as Beijing tries to cool the world's second-largest economy.


China manufacturing growth slows in April, hit by tightening (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Reuters - China's manufacturing growth slowed in April, a survey showed on Sunday, suggesting that the government's tightening efforts have weighed on the world's second-largest economy more heavily than expected.

China pays price for world's rare earths addiction (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:17 PM PDT

Rare earths are loaded on to a ship at a port in Lianyungang, eastern China. Farmers in northern China living near a 10-square-kilometre rare earth mining dump site say they have lost teeth and their hair has turned white while tests show the soil and water contain high levels of cancer-causing radioactive materials.(AFP/File)AFP - Peasant farmer Wang Tao used to grow corn, potatoes and wheat within a stone's throw of a dumping ground for rare earths waste until toxic chemicals leaked into the water supply and poisoned his land.


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