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Quake kills 74 in Kyrgyz mountain village
Bishkek (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children. Hours later, a powerful tremor also struck a sparsely populated area of China's Himalayan region of Tibet, killing at least 30 people, Chinese state media reported. The Kyrgyz quake, which ... more Nine dead as strong quake hits Tibet: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre. The earthquake struck at 4:30 pm (0830 GMT) Monday in a sparsely populated area about 84 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the US Geological Survey said. US seismologists ... more Melamine found in Chinese restaurant fare in Hungary: ministry 
Budapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Products containing traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been found in several Chinese restaurants in Hungary, the agriculture ministry's food safety officer, Miklos Suth, announced Monday. The melamine content did not, however, reach dangerous levels, he added. "Food products with melamine levels under the limits defined by food safety rules were found in a number of Chinese ... more Malaysia tests for chemical in Chinese vegetables and fruits 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Malaysia will test fruit and vegetables imported from China following reports that they may contain the industrial chemical melamine, a senior minister said Monday. "It is a precautionary measure on our side," Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai told reporters. "We are on high alert with this issue and will zoom in on whatever news we receive for now," he said. China is a major trading ... more China vows to clean up dairy industry, more children ill 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2008China on Monday vowed to clean up its scandal-plagued dairy industry, admitting a grave lack of supervision as authorities said more children had been sickened by tainted milk products. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao presided over a meeting of the cabinet, which called for immediate efforts to clean up the nation's "chaotic" dairy industry as more than 5,000 food safety inspectors were deployed ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2008The success of China's first spacewalk on the Shenzhou 7 mission paves the way for greater things. For China, the next great task will be its first space station. Much reportage has been circulated on this, but ironically, the more we read, the more confused space analysts become. What is China really planning? It all seemed so simple just a month ago. China would launch a space laboratory ... more Rare Herbal Plants Aboard Shenzhou-7 Spacecraft Studied 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2008Several rare herbal plants aboard the recent Shenzhou-7 space mission have now been transferred to a Chinese nanobiotechnology lab for study. The plants, including rauwolfia and salvia miltiorrhiza (also known as red sage), were used to produce nanomedicines to treat cancerous tumors, Professor Zhang Yangde with China's Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology at the Central South University told ... more Analysis: China space launch raises fears 
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 The release of a satellite into orbit during China's recent space mission has policy experts buzzing about the implications for U.S.-China space relations. The launch of this small "companion satellite," which weighs in at about 88 pounds, is a big step forward because it demonstrates China's growing military capabilities in space. "It's a significant new element in the ... more US envoy in China for talks on NKorea nuclear deal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2008US envoy Christopher Hill held talks Saturday with his Chinese counterpart amid stepped-up efforts to salvage a crumbling North Korean nuclear disarmament deal, a US embassy spokesman said. Hill, who was in discussions this week in North Korea on the faltering deal, briefed Chinese officials, including top nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei, as well as Sergey Razov, Russia's ambassador to China, on ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2008Fifty-eight people were killed when a strong earthquake hit Kyrgyzstan close to the country's border with China, emergency officials in former Soviet republic said Monday. The earthquake in the Alaisky district in southern Kyrgyzstan late Sunday evening killed 58, injured 50 and destroyed 120 buildings, Kylych Dosumbetov, a spokesman for Kyrgyzstan's emergency situations ministry, told AFP. ... more Milk scandal leaves sour aftertaste for China's White Rabbit sweets 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 5, 2008China's creamy White Rabbit sweets survived Japan's World War II occupation and the Communist Revolution, but the tainted milk crisis has cast doubt on the future of the well-known brand. Sales of White Rabbit's milk-flavoured sweets were halted after they were found to contain melamine -- an industrial chemical that was added to Chinese milk to make its protein content seem higher. ... more China can withstand financial crisis: Wen 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 5, 2008China's economy is strong enough to withstand the impact of the global financial crisis and may even help the world by maintaining fast growth, Premier Wen Jiabao was quoted as saying Sunday. "Our economic fundamentals haven't changed, and the economy is moving in the direction we expected," Wen was quoted as saying by the state-controlled Xinhua news agency. "The strength of our ... more Mars, Nestle pull product in SKorea over milk scandal: official 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 4, 2008Multinationals Mars and Nestle have been told to pull three products from South Korean shelves over the China milk scandal which has sickened thousands of babies, the nation's food watchdog said Saturday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it detected the industrial chemical melamine in snacks made in China by the multinationals, bringing to 10 the number of goods recalled here sinc ... more
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