Another Chinese Tainted Food Scandal? – China Environment

"Children with dangerously high levels of lead in their blood are being refused treatment and returned home to contaminated houses in polluted villages," said Joe Amon, the health and human rights director at Human Rights Watch.

A well-sourced report from Environment magazine on the number, locations and causes of China's infamous "cancer villages" (which, of course, are not necessarily the same thing as electronic-waste villages, weird-disease villages, and lead-poisoned villages).

Another corrupted official fell off the horse because of his mistress. Zhen City former deputy secretary, deputy director of the People’s Congress party, Qiu Huosheng was charged with bribery of 1.05 million yuan and stood trial yesterday at Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. During the trial, Qiu said the reason of him taking bribery was because his mistress Ms.

Seems like we're back to the tactics used out west in '08. And I was just starting to think that this place was starting to move in the right direction. Looks like we're right back to business as usual, "Officials have now arrived in droves. But local parents complain that rather than help them and their sick children, they appear only to want to shut them up."