Beijing - Aircraft builder Airbus opened an assembly plant in China on Sunday, its first production facility outside of Europe.

Airbus said it viewed the modern facility in the port city of Tianjin one hour to the south-east of the capital Beijing as a "milestone" in the globalization of the company's production.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Airbus head Thomas Enders were both present at the opening ceremony on Sunday.

The investment in the plant was between 8 billion and 12 billion yuan (1.2 billion to 1.8 billion dollars), state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

Four A320 Airbus craft are expected to be assembled at the Tianjin plant each month by 2011 at the latest.

Jakarta - Indonesia's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency has confirmed melamine had been detected in 12 food products from China, including cookies, candies and drinks, the health ministry and media reports said Saturday.

Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said the country's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) had found that 12 out of 19 China-based dairy products on sale in the country tested positive for melamine.

Among the poisonous ingredient melamine were found in Oreo stick wafer and M&Ms, Snickers and Guozhen formula milk, she said.

The Indian government has decided to ban the dairy products from china following some precautionary measures. It is reported that the diary products from China are contaminated and not fit for health. 

Many people are falling sick and children are dying by consuming these products. Some countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Kenya have already banned the import of Chinese dairy product.

After its failed persuasion to seek the Nuke deal like India with the US, Pakistan resorted for a different route when it planned to seek the same though this time from a different source. China seems to come to Pakistan’s aid this time with its bid to set up10 new atomic power plants in the forthcoming two decades.

Beijing - As China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft prepared for return to Earth later Sunday, Chinese space officials said a fire alarm that went off during its first spacewalk was false.

Wang Zhaoyao, spokesperson for the country's manned space programme, said late Saturday that an alarm sounded because of sensor error, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

"We were quite nervous when the astronaut in the re-entry module reported the fire alarm," he told reporters.

Beijing  - Chinese officialdom hailed on Saturday the country's first spacewalk as another reason for national "pride and joy," along with the successful conclusion of the 2008 Olympic Games.

The official party organ the People's Daily said that Saturday's spacewalk by astronaut Zhai Zhigang was further evidence of the "nation's continuing technical capabilities," and added that "the small step" by Zhai was "a historic leap in Chinese dreams of space travel."

The spacewalk got under way as Zhai, commander of the three-man mission, slipped out of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft orbiting 343 kilometres above Earth and said, "I feel good."