Gong Li's citizenship switch stirs outrage in China
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese actress Gong Li's decision to become a Singapore citizen sparked an online debate in China Tuesday, with many branding her a traitor but others defending the star.
Nations:China Singapore People:Gong Li Source:(AFP)
2008-11-11
Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food
BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.
Nations:China North Korea Colombia Kenya People:Kim Jong Il Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal China Wealth Gap Source:(AP)
2008-09-24
China: local leaders must manage complaints better
BEIJING - China has told local government leaders to be more responsive to people's complaints after several rural protests threatened to disturb the calm run-up to next month's Olympic Games, a government notice said Wednesday.
Nations:China Source:(AP)
2008-07-16
China: Floods kill 63 this month
GUANGZHOU, China - Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that more heavy rain in the central region could trigger flooding on the country's second-longest river.
Nations:China Activities:2008 Southern China Flood Source:(AP)
2008-06-17
Passenger train collision kills 70 in eastern China
A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.
Nations:China
2008-04-28
Fresh anti-Western protests rock China
Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.
Nations:China People:Nicolas Sarkozy Activities:2008 Anti-West in China 2008 Cafferty Racist Remark
2008-04-20
Script issues block US movie in China
China has blocked a Hollywood movie reportedly starring John Cusack and Gong Li from being shot in the country because of concerns about the script, a film official said Wednesday.
People:Ken Watanabe John Cusack Zhang Ziyi Ang Lee Gong Li Chow Yun-fat
2008-02-13
Heavy snow blamed for 10 deaths in China
Unusually heavy snowfall in central China has been blamed for at least 10 deaths and has stranded hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the peak Lunar New Year travel season, state media said Monday.
Nations:China
2008-01-21
China's coal mines kill 3,786 in 2007
Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday -- a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest.
Nations:China
2008-01-12
China coal mine gas leak kills 32
A gas leak killed 32 coal miners Thursday in southwest China, while three others were missing and presumed dead, a government safety official said.
Nations:China
2007-11-08
China observes 'Car Free Day' with the usual gridlock
More than 100 Chinese cities including Beijing staged a "Car Free Day" Saturday to fight congestion and pollution, but the streets of the capital remained defiantly clogged with traffic jams.
Nations:China
2007-09-22
China to raise food safety standards
China is stepping up enforcement against unlicensed food vendors and plans to upgrade quality standards on thousands of food and consumer products by year's end, officials said Tuesday.
Nations:China Activities:China Product Safety Crisis
2007-09-18
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