Topic: China Daily Information Company
AFP Asian Edition | 2010-02-24 04:10:14
China's ruling Communist Party has issued an ethics code to curb the widespread corruption that its leaders see as one of the biggest threats to its long-term survival, state media reported Wednesday. The guidelines spell out 52 banned practices for officials, including accepting cash or other financial rewards as gifts and using their influence to benefit family, friends or ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-08 02:24:41
<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese inspectors tracing new cases of contaminated milk have shut dairy firms in the northwest and seized 72 metric tons of milk powder tainted with melamine, an industrial compound that killed at least six children in 2008.</p><p>Nearly 100 metric tons of tainted milk powder may ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-25 10:10:24
<div><p>Melamine-laced milk products have been found on sale in China, state media said on Monday, more than a year after the chemical was blamed for six deaths in a huge scandal over contaminated dairy goods.</p><p>Authorities in the southwestern province of Guizhou found that products made by three ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-10 03:10:20
<div><p>The price of garlic has shot up 40-fold this year in China, the world's largest producer of the plant, in part due to an unexpected factor -- a popular belief that it can help ward off swine flu.</p><p>Garlic has outperformed stocks, property and even gold after low ...
