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The Granite Studio has an interesting post illustrating the inconsistency and division between BOGOG, the central government and reality when it comes to the controversy surrounding the deaths of workers building Olympic structures in Beijing.
Police are trying to find eight kilograms of stolen uranium ore that was being carried around in a plastic bag as a group of men tried to sell it on the black market. The ore was refined with a home sieve, and only 35 grams have been recovered. The men say that they lost the rest.
China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.
The world's top health official is to come from China, which remains at the centre of controversy over its handling of severe acute respiratory syndrome and bird flu.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were -- pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, vi
Taiwan should absolutely be a WHO member, President Chen Shui-bian writes in the Washington Post. To continue denying it because Beijing objects is both legally and morally deplorable.
The organization says Taiwan cannot join because it is not a sovereign state. Chen disagrees.
Just Another Laowai asks the title question after visiting a local Chinese pharmacy where he was told the biggest purchasers of Viagra are men in their 20s and 30s. If that's not funny enough, it was the shops "Buy It As A Gift" ad that originally drew him in.
SHANGHAI - The death toll from a highly infectious virus that preys on children rose to 24 Sunday as it spread to a new province amid heightened efforts by China's Health Ministry to contain it.
The official Xinhua News Agency said an 18-month old boy who died in Foshan city in Guangdong provin
A photograph of a little kid playing next to a huge pile of coal powder which her mother is shoveling into a wheelbarrow.
There's boobs on tv again, but this time they aren't Janet Jackson's. Chinese breast cancer awareness campaign pulled off air.
Richard at The Duck shares an article from the BBC regarding 18 "hospitals" (I, you and everyone should use that term lightly) that have been using fake blood protein in IVs for critical/serious patients.
Is anyone, like myself, just non-pulsed by these "fake (insert something vital here)" r
Live in China? Long-term? Wonder what that does to your lungs? Take a look at the insides of this PC and begin to guess.
From Public Radio International's program The World: China, the world's largest nation with one of the fastest growing economies, has a world-class pollution problem. In a four-part series, correspondent Mary Kay Magistad examines China's growing environmental crisis and what the country is doing to respond.
This was originally a radio piece, but it has several text and podcast components. The link goes to the feature's main page.
A recent article from CSR Asia by Jacqui Dixon reported that thousands of dead chickens reared in compact chicken farms in China might end up in our human food chain, meaning we somehow or another, we might be eating something that might have consume the dead chickens.
