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Despite marked progress in recent years, the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases remains a major challenge for China - especially in Yunnan, which is just north of the Golden Triangle and where China's first AIDS case was discovered. In an effort to combat the disease and other problems such as malaria, the Chinese government cooperates with several international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) who work towards reducing the prevalence and spread of these illnesses.

According to The New Dominion and Liuzhou Laowai, China Mobile is sending out an SMS message to mobile customers warning them that some murderous AIDS infected Xinjiang ren are tainting their delicious lamb skewers with blood, all in a plot to kill off poor folk who can't afford real food. Devious.

A report that a Belgian TV journalist and his crew reporting on the spread of AIDS in China were assaulted and robbed by county officials in Henan province.

Two women have been identified as carrying a mutant gene that is immune to HIV/AIDS, the first such cases uncovered in China, a researcher said.

The New Dominion's weekly roundup of notable events in Xinjiang. Examples include a national level committee investigate AIDS statistics and prevention practices in Xinjiang, international level efforts to help protect Przewalski’s horses from the front-bumper menace, interested investors from Europe and Russia, a good old-fashioned school discipline controversy, justice delivered to the minions and villains of Black Canyon, and more.

BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.

In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.

"These cheap and colourful rubber bands and hair ties sell well ... threatening the health of local people," it said.

If one categorize China's advance to change and modernize different sectors and areas of policies, China Education's road to modernization can be said to be one of the hardest to be done. Historically, in a hierachical competitive society, China education provided a fair and just route in which one can find means to climb up in accordance to Maslow's Laws. Whether its from individual's dreams of success, policies to cohesively run in sequence with the government's beliefs, China Education has gone through its up and down in history.

A commentary in The Age (Australia) argues that China has a long way to go in catching up with the West in education, whatever the numbers may say.

A Chinese netizen uploads pictures of his first grade nephew's sex education textbook, which teaches detailed anatomy, condoms, and how to avoid sexual abuse. Thousands of Chinese netizen respond with funny comments.