Islamabad - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Saturday that China will help the country to build two more nuclear power reactors to overcome its energy crisis.

An agreement was signed during President Asif Ali Zardari's recent visit to China, Shah Memhood Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad.

"These two new units will increase electricity production by 680 megawatts, which will have positive effect on Pakistani economy," he said.

Islamabad, Oct 18 : Pakistan security forces last evening recovered one of the two abducted Chinese engineers in northwestern parts of the country. ISPR’s in-charge in Swat Nadeem Ahmed confirmed that the recovered Chinese engineer was safe and healthy.

Taliban spokesman in Swat Muslim Khan also confirmed that one Chinese engineer had fled, while “the second was re-arrested”, reported the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

The freed engineer was flown to Islamabad by a military helicopter hours after he was rescued, added the report.

Taipei - Taiwan Saturday barred the import of Chinese-made ammonium bicarbonate, an ingredient used for baking, in yet another ban related to China's toxic chemical-tainted food scandal, a senior health official said.

"We have found concentrations of 70 to 300 parts per million of melamine in the Chinese-made ammonium bicarbonate, which is a rising agent used as baking soda," said Cheng Shou-hsia, deputy director-general of the Department of Health.

"For this, we have barred the import of ammonium bicarbonate from China and the use of such ingredient in any of our food products effective today," he said.

Beijing - China late Friday announced new regulations for foreign journalists that make permanent more liberal provisions introduced for the Beijing Olympics.

The main change from the pre-Olympic regulations was that foreign journalists no longer need permission from local governments before interviewing Chinese citizens and organizations, the foreign ministry said.

Beijing - German chemical giant Bayer on Friday formally launched production at a new plant in Shanghai with the capacity to produce 350,000 tons annually of diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).

   "The new world-scale plant is the largest MDI facility of its kind in the world," Bayer said a press release issued in Shanghai.

   It said it had also broken ground on the construction of another plant at its purpose-built Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai to produce 250,000 tons of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) per year by 2010.

Peshawar, Pakistan - One of two Chinese engineers kidnapped by Islamic militants in Pakistan's north-west escaped from captivity on Friday and reached a security post, but his colleague was recaptured, officials and a Taliban spokesman said.

The two abductees managed to slip away when they were being transported by Taliban militants in a vehicle from the Piochar area in the restive Swat district to the neighbouring Dir region in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

They were chased by the Taliban in the wooded mountains and one of them was caught after he received injuries due to a fall, the militants said.