From Asia Times Online (link): About 40 sporting goods stores do business in a clump right outside the gates of the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education in the giant Yangtze River city’s college quarter. The mostly single-room stores on both sides of Luoyu Road, an arterial street in Wuhan, try to out-price one another on […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online (link): The brief but deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome threw the spotlight on the critical role of health care – or the lack of it – in rural China. The countryside incubated the SARS virus and might be the place where an avian-flu pandemic breaks out. So more than […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia (link): The national capital had launched a campaign to bar minors and those thought to be accessing “unhealthy” content from the city’s internet cafes, state media said on Friday. People found to have violated regulations would be severely punished, China Daily said. Businesses allowing children to surf the […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia (link): Premier Wen Jiabao gave his backing to new rules on the protection of communication rights on the internet at a State Council meeting yesterday, as the government steps up efforts to regulate the mainland’s disorderly internet information services market. The new regulations were “principally passed” at the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via People’s Daily Online (link): The Ministry of Health yesterday warned that there are not enough qualified nurses in China to cope with the rising demand for medical services. “A shortage of nurses has become a big problem in China’s health service as the country has become an ageing society,” ministry spokesman […]
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