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A child suffering from kidney stones receives treatment at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province October 10, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - Three Chinese dairy companies have publicly apologized for their involvement in a toxic milk scandal that has killed at least four children and led to Chinese-made products pulled from shelves around the world.



China milk scandal companies apologize (Reuters)
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:04:00 GMT

A Giant Panda is fed at a panda breeding research centre in Ya'an, southwest China on September 24. Almost half of Hong Kong's aid package to help China's quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government has said.(AFP/File)AFP - Almost half of Hong Kong's aid package to help China's quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government said Sunday.



Hong Kong sets panda reserve as priority Sichuan aid project (AFP)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:07:58 GMT

Farmers work in their field of dried corn stalks amid encroaching development, on the outskirts of Beijing in 2007. China's ruling Communist Party approved a major economic reform plan Sunday that will allow farmers to trade and mortgage their land rights and help bolster the nation's food security.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China's ruling Communist Party approved a major economic reform plan Sunday that will allow farmers to trade and mortgage their land rights and help bolster the nation's food security.



China's communists approve key land reforms (AFP)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:00:53 GMT

A farmer carries the soybean straws to his cart at a field in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. China's ruling Communists are meeting to discuss agricultural reforms, as the government seeks to maintain growth and guard against the effects of the global economic crisis. The meeting is expected to give farmers formal permission to lease or transfer their land, measures that have already grown common as rural workers move to the city. (AP Photo)AP - China's ruling Communist Party on Sunday said it would seek to expand its massive internal market to counter the global economic slowdown that has reduced international demand for Chinese goods.



China looking inward as foreign economies slow (AP)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:20:47 GMT
Reuters - China will maintain flexible and prudent macro-economic policies and seek to expand domestic demand in the face of a grim international economic environment, the country's ruling Communist Party said on Sunday.
China vows stable growth in face of global turmoil (Reuters)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:51:57 GMT

Young giant pandas are seen in their enclosure at Beijing Zoo July 10, 2008. Eight giant pandas are part of a special exhibit at the zoo for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)Reuters - Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giant panda, an achievement which may aid efforts to protect the endangered species, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.



Scientists sequence giant panda's genome: report (Reuters)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:55:25 GMT
Reuters - Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas.
China sets plan to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders (Reuters)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:11:01 GMT
Reuters - France banned on Friday the sale of two brands of Chinese-made sweets and biscuits that it said had been contaminated with malamine-tainted milk -- the latest country hit by the widening health scandal.
France withdraws contaminated Chinese sweets (Reuters)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:51:33 GMT
AP - A crane at a construction site next to a Chinese kindergarten collapsed Friday, killing five children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Crane collapses on Chinese kindergarten, killing 5 (AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:02:31 GMT

Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan says she wants to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband -- who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Chinese dissident Zeng Jinyan said on Friday that she wanted to keep speaking out on human rights but was afraid due to intimidation of her and her jailed husband, who had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize.



China dissident Zeng says she wants to speak out despite fear (AFP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:09:49 GMT

Chinese workers clean windows on the new Sanlitun shopping mall in Beijing, China Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Although China's stock markets have seen significant drops following economy crisis worsens in recent days, the country's banks have largely escaped the impact of the U.S. financial crisis. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.



Beijing to ban half its cars during high pollution (AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:53 GMT

A scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding from cultured lymphocyte. The deadly AIDS virus first began spreading among humans at the turn of the 20th century in sub-Saharan Africa, just as modern cities were emerging in the region, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. The finding pushes back the origin of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by several decades, they reported in the journal Nature. (CDC/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Drug-resistant HIV strains are turning up in parts of China as the virus stretches beyond high-risk groups and gains a stronger foothold in the general population, a leading Chinese AIDS researcher said.



Drug-resistant HIV strains turning up in China (Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:00:19 GMT

A U.S. Apache helicopter fires missiles in a file photo. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese military spokesman said relations with the United States are sure to suffer after Washington announced a big arms package for disputed Taiwan, warning high-level contacts could be frozen.



China military decries U.S. arms package for Taiwan (Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:59:35 GMT

A worker hand squeezes milk from a cow that recently receive antibiotic jabs to separate it from those to be used for human consumption at a milking station in near Hohhot, northwestern China's Inner Mongolia province, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country defended its dairy products Thursday at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.



10,000 Chinese children still sick from milk (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:03:26 GMT
AP - The House lawmaker in charge of trade wants the government to track what could be a dramatic increase in imports of Chinese-made clothing and other textile products once a deal limiting those goods expires at year's end.
Government asked to track Chinese textile imports (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:16:25 GMT

A worker hand squeezes milk from a cow that recently receive antibiotic jabs to separate it from those to be used for human consumption at a milking station in near Hohhot, northwestern China's Inner Mongolia province, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Peering into five pails of foaming milk, Wang Guifeng quickly jotted down the farmer's name before signaling the batch was OK. Every day he rejects milk from two or three farms whose cows don't meet hygiene standards or show signs of disease.



Scandal forces reform in China dairy industry (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:05:27 GMT
AP - China on Thursday rejected concerns that it would torture Chinese Muslims held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay if they are returned to China, saying they will be dealt with according to the law.
China says it won't torture Guantanamo detainees (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:09 GMT
Reuters - China has recalled two batches of herbal injections after three people who used them died, the official Xinhua agency said on Thursday, as the country still struggles to clean up a tainted milk scandal.
China recalls herbal injections after three deaths (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:43:03 GMT

File photo shows a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay being escorted by two US Army military police officers. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AP - A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What's a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?



Chinese Muslims' release into US blocked for now (AP)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:14:28 GMT

The Taiwan navy's Tzu I, a Cheng Kung-class frigate, participates in a naval demonstration off the waters of Kaohsiung September 12, 2007. (Nicky Loh/Reuters)Reuters - China said on Thursday that the next U.S. president should not allow a repeat of a recent arms sale to Taiwan which it said had damaged ties between Beijing and Washington.



China warns U.S. presidential rivals on Taiwan arms (Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:44:53 GMT