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At a press conference on Saturday to discuss what went wrong with the shipment of turkeys, Wuhan officials revealed that the birds had been fed an experimental combination of birdseed, lead pellets, and date-rape drugs.

"Going forward, we're going to skip the lead pellets," said Qiu Liangyong, the company's public relations director.

A summary of the recent New York Times report about how some uncertified, unregulated chemical companies in China are actively pushing pharmaceutical ingredients onto the world drug market.

Zheng Xiaoyu, ex-chief of the State Food and Drug Administration, was just sentenced to death in China's most recent OBVIOUS SCAPEGOAT TRIAL.

Looking to show that they're taking the dangerous products coming out of their country seriously, Zheng has been ordered to be put to death for accepting bribes and allowing sub-standard drugs onto the market while performing his former role.

Only problem is, Zheng was not at all involved in the recent toothpaste/pet food/saline solution scares. He's been happily retired for two years.

via The Peking Duck: "This is, quite simply, the scariest article yet about the poisonous products being exported from China to your supermarket shelves. It's about the willful efforts of Chinese companies to block the FDA's frantic attempts to trace the source of the poison and cut it off. You have to read it to believe it. No wonder it's featured as the No. 1 leading story in today's Sunday Times. It's a story of dogged detective work, cover-ups, corruption and death.

A Taiwan taxi driver drove passengers around for a day with a corpse sitting in his front seat. The driver claims that he thought his friend was simply sleeping after picking him drunk and watching him inject drugs in to his veins.

Asia Stuff Network adds Google Custom Search, Event Feeds and Social Mapping to connect expats in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

It's no secret to anyone who's been approached by a sketchy Uyghur on the streets of Beijing or Shanghai that Xinjiang is to hashish what Yunnan is to... well, every other illegal controlled substance. Thus it came to be last summer that Marvin Moses — intrepid reporter for High Times magazine — traveled to my fair but remote region of China to track down the holy grail of ganja: the original mother plant from which all later strains of cannabis are descendants.

Guangzhou Baiyun International, China's third busiest airport after Beijing and Shanghai, is expanding its efforts to become an international air cargo and logistics hub in prosperous South China.