From Xinhua: China has issued a set of regulations on the safety of radioactive isotope and radiation devices, which require immediate and accurate report of any radiation-related accidents. The people who are responsible for the accidents will face administrative punishment or be brought to court, according to the regulations, which take effect on Dec. 1 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China aims to become a leading player in the fast-growing biotechnology sector by capitalising on research costs that are one fifth those of Europe or the United States, a top official said on Monday. In the past, the country’s drug industry has largely consisted of manufacturing cheap generics and producing traditional Chinese medicine. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSN Money Chinese authorities have shut down an online discussion forum that reported on anti-corruption protests in a village in the country’s south as well as a Web site serving ethnic Mongolians, overseas monitors said Tuesday… Radio Free Asia, a U.S.-based broadcaster, said an online forum that covered protests in the village […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 30 – In this lush, affluent region where adultery is so ingrained that wealthy businessmen keep their lovers in “concubine villages,” infidelity is often tolerated in a marriage. But Cai Shaohong could not put up with it. So against the advice of her parents, Ms. Cai, 29, decided […]
Read MoreFrom TIME: Nothing in Zheng Yichun’s upbringing foreshadowed his landing in a political prison. His English-speaking father interrogated captured American G.I.s during the Korean War, and as a teenager two decades later, Zheng led his middle school’s Communist Youth League. Only when the reform era hit China in the 1980s did the aspiring poet have […]
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