Chinese policeman wins best actor at Shanghai film awards
SHANGHAI (AFP) - A policeman from northeast China with no previous acting experience has won the best actor prize at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Nations:Lithuania China People:Anthony Minghella Wong Kar-Wai Joan Chen Activities:2008 Shanghai Film Festival Source:(AFP)
2008-06-23
Fresh anti-Western protests rock China
Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.
Nations:China People:Nicolas Sarkozy Activities:2008 Anti-West in China 2008 Cafferty Racist Remark
2008-04-20
China police, farmers clash in land row
At least two people were injured and two detained when villagers and police clashed over a land dispute in northeastern China, a witness said Sunday. A newspaper reported one person was killed in the incident.
Nations:Hong Kong China
2007-08-26
Chinese crowds greet the New Year with a bang
Bright, deafening explosions and thick smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a firework ban in exuberant fashion.
Nations:China Activities:2007 Spring Festival
2007-02-18
China punishes officials for river spill
Environment officials and senior executives of a state-owned petroleum company and its listed subsidiary have been punished for a toxic river spill a year ago that forced officials to temporarily cut off water to millions living in northeastern China and Russia, state media reported Friday.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-11-25
China says chemical spill will not affect Russia
China has said a chemical spill into a tributary of the Songhua River had been controlled and would not affect neighbouring Russia, state media reported.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-08-25
Thaw Releases More Toxins From China Spill
Thawing river ice months after a Chinese toxic spill has released a "second wave" of pollution into waterways near a major Russian Far Eastern city, experts said Sunday.
Nations:Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-05-01
China to spend 1.2 billion dollars cleaning up Songhua river
China said it would spend 1.2 billion dollars cleaning up its third biggest river following a major chemical spill last year that contaminated water supplies for millions of people.
Nations:Russia China Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-03-30
Chemical plants on China's waterways raises alarm
Beijing - China has 21,000 chemical plants located along its rivers and coastline, in many cases posing a ticking environmental time bomb with "unthinkable" consequences.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Guangdong Chemical Spill 2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-01-24
China says water, food safe near Russian border
Beijing - China said that water and food supplies for millions of people living along the Songhua river, the scene of a disastrous chemical spill late last year, were now safe from contamination.
Nations:China Russia Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-01-24
China to Spend $3 Billion to Clean Songhua River
China will invest $3.3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a toxic spill that reached into Russia, reports said Sunday.
Activities:2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-01-08
New chemical spills threaten water supply for millions in China
Two major new toxic spills in China have threatened water supplies for millions of residents, officials and state media have said, as local governments took emergency measures.
Activities:2005 Guangdong Chemical Spill 2005 Songhua River Pollution
2006-01-08
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