Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu
LONDON - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have failed to contain the disease.
Nations:China Ukraine Argentina Singapore Egypt Malaysia Activities:2009 Swine Flu Source:(AP)
2009-11-19
Trade opens on China's Nasdaq-style board
SHANGHAI (AFP) - Trading opened Friday on China's long-awaited Nasdaq-style board, ChiNext, with all 28 listed small- and medium-sized firms rocketing in early trade on fevered interest from investors.
Nations:China Activities:Chinese Markets Source:(AFP)
2009-10-29
Taiwan's Ma aims to boost image with cabinet shuffle
Taipei, Taiwan - Taiwan formally replaced most of its Cabinet Thursday in a bid to appease public anger over its response to last month's deadly Typhoon Morakot.
Nations:Taiwan People:Ma Ying-jeou Sun Yat-sen Activities:2009 Typhoon Morakot Ma Ying-jeou Admin. Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-09-13
Taiwan's Ma aims to boost image with cabinet shuffle
Taipei, Taiwan - Taiwan formally replaced most of its Cabinet Thursday in a bid to appease public anger over its response to last month's deadly Typhoon Morakot.
People:Ma Ying-jeou Sun Yat-sen Activities:Ma Ying-jeou Admin. Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-09-11
After violence, western China looks for answers
URUMQI, China - It was about 8 p.m. when the mob descended on Zhongwan Road. The police didn't arrive until six hours later. In the time between, most residents locked their doors and hid, peering out through windows and listening from basements as ethnic violence raged in China's western Xinjiang province.
Nations:China Activities:2009 Xinjiang Riot Source:(AP)
2009-07-11
China tracks Mexico plane passengers over flu
BEIJING (AFP) - China was searching Saturday for passengers on a flight to Shanghai with a man who was diagnosed with swine flu after landing in Hong Kong, bringing the disease dangerously close to the mainland and its massive population.
Nations:China Hong Kong Mexico South Korea Activities:2009 Swine Flu Source:(AFP)
2009-05-02
Sydney first major city to mark Earth Hour 2009
SYDNEY - The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world's first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.
Nations:New Zealand Denmark Thailand China Hong Kong South Africa People:Ban Ki-moon Abhisit Vejjajiva Dalai Lama Cate Blanchett Source:(AP)
2009-03-28
China's surge of college graduates finds white-collar work elusive
As if college seniors hadn't watched their job prospects sink low enough.
Nations:China Activities:2008 China Job Crisis Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-02-04
China sentences two to death over tainted milk
SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for their role in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children, while the woman most widely blamed for the tragedy got life in jail.
Nations:China New Zealand Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal
2009-01-22
Global slump casts a pall over Chinese New Year
BEIJING - Painter Wei Haibin is carefully weighing every purchase as he heads home to Hebei province for China's biggest family holiday -- a time when the economy typically enjoys a bounce.
Nations:China Hong Kong Taiwan Activities:2008 China Slowdown 2009 China New Year Traffic Source:(AP)
2009-01-17
China's jobless migrants go home early for holiday
GUANGZHOU, China - Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their things in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival -- a holiday that triggers one of the world's biggest annual migrations of humans.
Nations:China Russia Source:(AP)
2009-01-09
China plans production controls for deadly melamine
BEIJING - China plans to impose production controls on melamine, the cheap industrial ingredient at the center of a milk-contamination scandal that shocked China and the rest of the world last year, a newspaper said Friday.
Nations:China People:Tian Wenhua Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(Reuters)
2009-01-09
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