China addresses stimulus doubts with proposal list
BEIJING - Trying to dispel doubts about the true size and effectiveness of a giant economic stimulus package, Beijing rolled out an eye-popping figure to show its determination to spend its way out of trouble: a $1.4 trillion shopping list of possible investments.
Nations:China Activities:2008 China Stimulus Plan Source:(AP)
2008-11-24
Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal
LITI VILLAGE, China - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.
Nations:China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-11-15
Stocks plunge for third straight session
NEW YORK - An increasingly despondent Wall Street fell for the third straight session Wednesday as investors absorbed another series of dismal corporate reports and news that the government won't buy banks' soured mortgage assets after all. The Dow Jones industrials dropped more than 410 points, and all the major indexes lost more than 4 percent.
People:Henry Paulson Activities:U.S. Markets
2008-11-12
China's envoy arrives in Taiwan for historic talks
TAIPEI (AFP) - The most senior Chinese official to visit Taiwan since the end of a civil war 60 years ago said Monday that historic talks to take place this week are the only way to build trust between the arch rivals.
Nations:China Taiwan People:Chen Yunlin Ma Ying-jeou Activities:2008 Chen Taiwan Visit Ma Ying-jeou Admin. Source:(AFP)
2008-11-03
HK historic epic leads Taiwan 'Oscars' nominations
TAIPEI (AFP) - Hong Kong director Peter Chan's historic epic "The Warlords" leads nominations for this year's Golden Horse Film Awards, considered the Chinese-language "Oscars", organisers announced Thursday.
Nations:Hong Kong People:Peter Chan Karena Lam Takeshi Kaneshiro Louis Koo Sylvia Chang Andy Lau Activities:2008 Golden Horse Awards
2008-10-30
The Housing Crisis Spreads to China
Autumn is usually the busiest time for real estate salesman Wang Yaodong. Last September and October, for instance, he sold more than a dozen luxury townhouses in western Shanghai, but this year he has sold only one. "Everybody is waiting for prices to fall," Wang says.
Nations:China Hong Kong Activities:2008 China Real Estate Crisis Source:(BusinessWeek)
2008-10-28
China: 3,600 babies still in hospital from tainted milk
BEIJING - More than 3,600 babies remain in hospital in China after drinking tainted milk products that have sickened over 53,000 children, the government said Thursday.
Nations:China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal
2008-10-23
Ex-Beijing official gets death sentence, reprieve
BEIJING - A former Beijing vice mayor in charge of overseeing Olympic construction projects has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption, a court said Sunday, in a stern warning to wayward Communist officials.
Nations:China Source:(AP)
2008-10-19
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
Distributors: China dairy ordered milk off shelves
BEIJING - The company at the heart of China's tainted milk scandal ordered distributors to pull its products off store shelves in early July, weeks before the company went public with the problem, two distributors said Friday.
Nations:New Zealand China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AP)
2008-09-19
Death toll rises to four as China milk scandal escalates
BEIJING (AFP) - China's milk scandal escalated dramatically on Thursday as it emerged the illegal chemical blamed for killing four babies had been detected in a wide range of dairy products, leading to mass recalls.
Nations:Hong Kong China Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AFP)
2008-09-18
Tainted milk sickens 6,000 babies in China
BEIJING (AFP) - China said Wednesday more than 6,000 babies had fallen ill and three died after drinking milk powder contaminated with a toxic chemical, as it vowed massive efforts to contain a widening food scandal.
Nations:China Gabon Yemen Burundi Myanmar New Zealand People:Wen Jiabao Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AFP)
2008-09-17
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