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Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2008A policeman in central China's Henan Province was executed Thursday after being accused of killing a man by throwing him from the third storey of a police office building, state media said. Li Litian, of Zhoukou City, was executed over the killing of a laid-off worker in September 2004 after Li and five other police allegedly beat the man at the station after a dispute with the family of ... more China debates tighter food safety law spurred by milk scandal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2008China's parliament began debating a bill Thursday aimed at improving food safety, as the government said more than 3,600 babies made sick in the country's tainted milk scandal remained in hospital. The draft law before the National People's Congress aims to prevent any cover-ups by health authorities and would make them directly responsible for approving additives in processed foods, Xinhua ... more Arsenic pollutes scenic lake in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Water supplies for at least 26,000 people were cut off in southwest China after a scenic lake popular with holidaymakers was contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants, state media reported Thursday. The local vice mayor and several officials have been sacked over the contamination of Yunnan province's Yangzonghai lake, the China News Service said. At least 18 officials have been rem ... more EU honours jailed Chinese dissident Hu despite Beijing pressure 
Strasbourg (AFP) Oct 23, 2008The European Parliament on Thursday awarded a prestigious rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia on the eve of a key Beijing summit - despite pressure from China not to honour him. In a letter to senior lawmakers and the president of the assembly, China had warned that giving the Sakharov Prize to the civil rights campaigner could damage ties with Europe. Beijing hit out when ... more Europe calls for more help from Asia on financial crisis 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2008Europe on Thursday called for greater help from Asia in tackling the "unprecedented" challenges of the global economic crisis, on the eve of a summit here between leaders of the two regions. However a diplomatic spat threatened to distract the two-day Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM), after the European Union parliament defied warnings from China and awarded its major human rights award to a ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Oct 21, 2008 Chairman Mao Zedong can finally rest easy in his grave. His country has now become the dominant partner in the Sino-Russian relationship, a complete reversal of the past. Since the 1930s Mao had a tense relationship with the Russians, largely because of their view that China and the Chinese Communist Party were in a subordinate position to their Soviet counterparts. Although Soviet ... more Crime crackdown in SW China yields 10,000 arrests: report 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008Chinese police in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing have detained nearly 10,000 people in an 80-day crime crackdown, state media reported on Wednesday. Police detained 9,512 suspects in the crackdown, which was Chongqing's biggest in 25 years, the Chongqing Evening News reported. As a result of the sweep, which came as Beijing hosted the Olympics amid unprecedented security ... more Taiwan independence groups plan huge China envoy protest 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Taiwanese pro-independence activists plan to stage their biggest rally Saturday since President Ma Ying-jeou took office as his China-friendly government readies the red carpet for a top Beijing envoy. Organisers say they expect half a million people to take to the streets of the capital Taipei to protest against China's continued claim of sovereignty over the self-ruled island. ... more UN urges China to revamp food safety after milk crisis 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008China must modernise its food safety system, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies. In a new report on food safety in China, the UN urged Beijing to adopt a "modern" food safety law and introduce other measures that would help build trust in the government's ability to ensure ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008US retail giant Wal-Mart said Wednesday it would step up efforts to ensure the quality of products it sources, including in China, where a milk scandal has again highlighted weak standards. "Today, we're asking suppliers to take those standards to an even higher level," Wal-Mart Vice Chairman Mike Duke told a conference in Beijing. "We will require greater transparency and ownership from ... more China to lift taxes to boost ailing property market: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2008China announced a range of measures to boost the nation's ailing real estate market amid global financial turmoil, state media said Wednesday, quoting the finance ministry and the central bank. The moves to help home buyers comes after a Cabinet meeting last week which resolved to take steps to lift the slowing sector and head off a market crash after recent data showed a drop in China's ... more Brazil hopes to launch satellite rocket in 2011: report 
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 21, 2008Brazil hopes to have a basic version of a satellite transport rocket blasting off from its territory in 2011 after successful tests of one of the vehicle's engines this week, a report said. The information, given by the G1 news website run by the Globo news group, confirms Brazil's ambitions to join China and Russia as a top emerging economy with its own space program. The Brazilian Space ... more US court blocks release of Uighurs from Guantanamo 
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2008A US federal appeals court has blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison until more legal hearings are held in November. The men have been held at the US "war on terror" detention camp for more than six years without charges. A federal judge on October 7 had ordered the men released and brought to the US capital, home to a significant Uighur ... more
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