Yahoo! News: World - ChinaWorld - ChinaChina food scare company apologises: state media (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - The company at the centre of China's latest food scare Monday apologised for its contaminated milk powder which has killed two babies and made more than 1,200 others sick, state media said.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/hl_afp/ch... China cuts lending rates, small banks' reserves (Reuters)- September 15, 2008 Reuters - China's central bank, acting against a background of extreme stress in global financial markets, cut benchmark lending rates by 0.27 percentage point on Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080915/bs_nm/chin... China evacuates a half million for tropical storm: report (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - China evacuated nearly half a million people from coastal areas as tropical storm Sinlaku bore down, but officials said the mainland was expected to escape the worst, state media reported Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/wl_asia_a... China says 1,253 babies affected by contaminated milk (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition, the health ministry said Monday, vastly increasing previous estimates.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/wl_afp/ch... Chinese firms try to block Coke's juice company takeover: report (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - A group of Chinese drinks makers are to submit plans to the government they hope will block Coca-Cola's takeover of China Huiyuan Juice Group, state media reported Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/bs_afp/ch... Fonterra says contaminated milk in China was sabotaged (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Monday that contaminated milk powder from its Chinese joint venture company Sanlu Group, which has killed two infants, was the result of sabotage.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/hl_afp/ch... China landslide death toll rises to 254 (AP)- September 15, 2008 AP - The governor of a northern Chinese province resigned after the death toll in a landslide triggered by the collapse of an illegal mining dump rose to 254, local officials said Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_re_a... Presidential hopefuls spell out China policy (Reuters)- September 15, 2008 Reuters - Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama both vowed to press China on trade and to work with it on climate change if elected, and Obama said he would make shifting Beijing's currency policies a priority.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080915/ts_nm/chin... A life of coal for Chinese migrant worker (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - Zhang Yongling is a typical migrant labourer. Raised in the rural farmlands of China's southwest, he is now a mine worker in the brutal northern coal-producing region.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/wl_asia_a... Tainted baby milk powder claims lives of two Chinese infants (AFP)- September 15, 2008 AFP - Chinese state media said Monday a second baby has died from drinking contaminated milk powder, after one fatality was confirmed earlier.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080915/hl_afp/ch... |