Oct
11
China calls Nobel contender an undeserving criminal (Reuters)
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Reuters - A Chinese government spokesmen said jailed dissident Hu Jia was a criminal undeserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, amplifying Beijing’s unhappiness at the possibility Hu could win the honor this year.
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Oct
11
China dissident Zeng says she wants to speak out despite fear (AFP)
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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.
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Oct
11
China recalls herbal injections after three deaths (Reuters)
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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.
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Oct
11
AP - A crane at a construction site next to a Chinese kindergarten collapsed Friday, killing five children, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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Oct
11
AP - Police have beaten and detained protesters holding a rally in southern China to seek compensation for damaged property, an activist group said Thursday.
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Oct
11
France pulls tainted Chinese food
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France has recalled sweets and biscuits made with Chinese dairy after finding high levels of an industrial chemical.
In China, four babies have died and 53,000 have fallen sick after consuming milk products contaminated with the chemical melamine.
The EU banned imports of Chinese baby food containing traces of milk in response to the scare last month.
The recall of White Rabbit sweets and Koala biscuits is the first such order to be made by a European country.
French consumers were warned to destroy or return the tainted products after tests showed high levels of melamine, which can cause kidney failure.
“The first results of tests conducted in France have shown a melamine level above the warning level set by the European Commission at 2.5mg per kilo,” the agriculture ministry said in a statement.
So far there have been no identified cases of health problems associated with the contamination in France.
The recall is the strongest measure yet taken by a European country amid a worldwide health scare over Chinese milk products that has led several countries to ban dairy imports from China.
It came as China issued new quality controls for its dairy industry and promised more severe punishment, including public naming, for anyone found to have violated safety standards.
Some Chinese dairy farmers are accused of fraudulently adding melamineto watered-down milk to make the product appear rich in protein and to fool quality control tests.
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation
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Oct
11
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.
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Oct
11
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.
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Oct
11
China warns U.S. presidential rivals on Taiwan arms (Reuters)
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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.
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Oct
11
China more than triples number of children hospitalised over milk (AFP)
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AFP - China published Thursday a new number of children hospitalised after drinking tainted milk, more than tripling the official figure to nearly 47,000.
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