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Reuters - France banned on Friday the sale of two brands of Chinese-made sweets and biscuits that it said had been contaminated with malamine-tainted milk -- the latest country hit by the widening health scandal.
France withdraws contaminated Chinese sweets (Reuters)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:51:33 GMT
AP - A crane at a construction site next to a Chinese kindergarten collapsed Friday, killing five children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Crane collapses on Chinese kindergarten, killing 5 (AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:02:31 GMT

Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan says she wants to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband -- who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan said on Friday that she wanted to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband, who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.



China dissident Zeng says she wants to speak out despite fear (AFP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:09:49 GMT

Chinese workers clean windows on the new Sanlitun shopping mall in Beijing, China Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Although China's stock markets have seen significant drops following economy crisis worsens in recent days, the country's banks have largely escaped the impact of the U.S. financial crisis. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.



Beijing to ban half its cars during high pollution (AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:53 GMT

A scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding from cultured lymphocyte. The deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. The finding pushes back the origin of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by several decades, they reported in the journal Nature. (CDC/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Drug-resistant HIV strains are turning up in parts of China as the virus stretches beyond high-risk groups and gains a stronger foothold in the general population, a leading Chinese AIDS researcher said.



Drug-resistant HIV strains turning up in China (Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:00:19 GMT

A child suffering from kidney stones receives treatment at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province, October 10, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - China has stepped up scrutiny of milk production, tightened dairy controls and threatened to "out" offenders amid a widening health scandal, state media said Friday.



China threatens to "out" tainted milk offenders (Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:50:37 GMT

A U.S. Apache helicopter fires missiles in a file photo. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese military spokesman said relations with the United States are sure to suffer after Washington announced a big arms package for disputed Taiwan, warning high-level contacts could be frozen.



China military decries U.S. arms package for Taiwan (Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:59:35 GMT

A worker hand squeezes milk from a cow that recently receive antibiotic jabs to separate it from those to be used for human consumption at a milking station in near Hohhot, northwestern China's Inner Mongolia province, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country defended its dairy products Thursday at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.



10,000 Chinese children still sick from milk (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:03:26 GMT
AP - The House lawmaker in charge of trade wants the government to track what could be a dramatic increase in imports of Chinese-made clothing and other textile products once a deal limiting those goods expires at year's end.
Government asked to track Chinese textile imports (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:16:25 GMT

A worker hand squeezes milk from a cow that recently receive antibiotic jabs to separate it from those to be used for human consumption at a milking station in near Hohhot, northwestern China's Inner Mongolia province, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Peering into five pails of foaming milk, Wang Guifeng quickly jotted down the farmer's name before signaling the batch was OK. Every day he rejects milk from two or three farms whose cows don't meet hygiene standards or show signs of disease.



Scandal forces reform in China dairy industry (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:05:27 GMT
AP - China on Thursday rejected concerns that it would torture Chinese Muslims held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay if they are returned to China, saying they will be dealt with according to the law.
China says it won't torture Guantanamo detainees (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:09 GMT
Reuters - China has recalled two batches of herbal injections after three people who used them died, the official Xinhua agency said on Thursday, as the country still struggles to clean up a tainted milk scandal.
China recalls herbal injections after three deaths (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:43:03 GMT

File photo shows a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay being escorted by two US Army military police officers. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AP - A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What's a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?



Chinese Muslims' release into US blocked for now (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:14:28 GMT

The Taiwan navy's Tzu I, a Cheng Kung-class frigate, participates in a naval demonstration off the waters of Kaohsiung September 12, 2007. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)Reuters - China said on Thursday that the next U.S. president should not allow a repeat of a recent arms sale to Taiwan which it said had damaged ties between Beijing and Washington.



China warns U.S. presidential rivals on Taiwan arms (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:44:53 GMT

The United States on Friday congratulated Finnish former president Martti Ahtisaari for his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.(AFP/File/Boryana Katsarova)AP - China said Thursday that a prominent Chinese human rights activist should not be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, saying such an honor would go against the spirit of the award.



China opposes Peace Prize for rights activist (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:38:06 GMT
Reuters - A Chinese government spokesmen said jailed dissident Hu Jia was a criminal undeserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, amplifying Beijing's unhappiness at the possibility Hu could win the honor this year.
China calls Nobel contender an undeserving criminal (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:50:12 GMT
AP - The number of villagers sickened by drinking water contaminated with arsenic in southern China has risen to 200, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
China: 200 villagers sickened by arsenic in water (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:30:20 GMT
AP - Police have beaten and detained protesters holding a rally in southern China to seek compensation for damaged property, an activist group said Thursday.
Protesters reported beaten, detained in China (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:09:35 GMT

A dairy farmer carries his son in Tuoweiziran village, the Inner Mongolia region of China on October 8. China published Thursday a new number of children hospitalised after drinking tainted milk, more than tripling the official figure to nearly 47,000.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - China published Thursday a new number of children hospitalised after drinking tainted milk, more than tripling the official figure to nearly 47,000.



China more than triples number of children hospitalised over milk (AFP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:42:28 GMT

Taiwan's chief negotiator with China Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman P.K. Chiang speaks during an interview with Reuters in Taipei October 9, 2008. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)Reuters - China's top negotiator on Taiwan will meet the island's president for the first time, a Taipei official said on Thursday, in what would be a further sign of improved relations between the diplomatic rivals.



Taiwan says president to meet China official (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:07:57 GMT