China inspects dairy regions after tainted milk
BEIJING - China's food safety watchdog sent inspectors to the country's main dairy producing regions on Sunday after at least 432 babies were sickened by tainted milk powder produced by a Chinese company.
Nations:New Zealand China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-09-14
Chinese policeman wins best actor at Shanghai film awards
SHANGHAI (AFP) - A policeman from northeast China with no previous acting experience has won the best actor prize at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Nations:Lithuania China People:Anthony Minghella Wong Kar-Wai Joan Chen Activities:2008 Shanghai Film Festival Source:(AFP)
2008-06-23
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
Demobilized soldiers riot in China
Demobilized soldiers rioted at a retraining center in northeastern China overnight, the latest in a series of apparently coordinated protests against living conditions, a teacher and a human rights monitoring group said Friday.
Nations:China
2007-09-14
China replaces 5 Cabinet ministers
China replaced five Cabinet ministers -- including the finance minister and the head of the secret police -- the government said Thursday, just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
Nations:China People:Jin Renqing Chen Liangyu Activities:2007 CCP 17th Congress China Hu Jintao Admin.
2007-08-30
China police, farmers clash in land row
At least two people were injured and two detained when villagers and police clashed over a land dispute in northeastern China, a witness said Sunday. A newspaper reported one person was killed in the incident.
Nations:Hong Kong China
2007-08-26
Chinese crowds greet the New Year with a bang
Bright, deafening explosions and thick smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a firework ban in exuberant fashion.
Nations:China Activities:2007 Spring Festival
2007-02-18
At least 53 feared dead in two China mining accidents
A blast in a southwestern China mine has taken the lives of 32 miners and left 28 injured, while 21 miners were confirmed dead in a second explosion in a northeastern Chinese mine, state press has reported.
Nations:China
2006-11-26
China punishes officials for river spill
Environment officials and senior executives of a state-owned petroleum company and its listed subsidiary have been punished for a toxic river spill a year ago that forced officials to temporarily cut off water to millions living in northeastern China and Russia, state media reported Friday.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-11-25
China says chemical spill will not affect Russia
China has said a chemical spill into a tributary of the Songhua River had been controlled and would not affect neighbouring Russia, state media reported.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-08-25
China denies cover-up of drug linked to 6 deaths
China has denied covering up reports of adverse reactions linked to a banned antibiotic treatment, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Nations:China
2006-08-09
Experts recover old Japanese bombs in China
A joint Chinese-Japanese team of experts has retrieved 210 abandoned Japanese poison gas bombs from World War II that were buried near a school in northeastern China, a news report said Tuesday.
Nations:China Activities:Japan Chemical Weapon Incident
2006-07-11
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