Topic: Xinhua News Agency
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-03 11:10:20
<div><p>Five people were killed and seven injured when they leapt from a fifth-storey rooftop in southwest China to escape a fire engulfing the building, state media reported Sunday.</p><p>The inferno took hold in the building in Guizhou province in the early hours of the morning Sunday, after a ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-02 08:30:44
<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai dairy has been closed and three of its executives arrested for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical responsible for the death of six children in 2008, Xinhua news agency reported.</p><p>Xinhua said powder and flavoring products sold by the Shanghai Panda ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-13 09:10:14
<div><p>A detailed genome map of the giant panda completed by Chinese scientists has shown that the notoriously shy animal is genetically similar to the dog, state media reported Sunday.</p><p>Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute finished sequencing the giant panda genome in October last year but a detailed ...
AP News | 2009-12-08 04:53:00
This photo taken on Tuesday Dec. 8, 2009 and released by the Xinhua news agency shows the venue of a stampede in the privately run Yucai Middle School in Xiangxiang, in central China's Hunan Province. Chinese media said eight ...
