From Shanghai Daily: CHINA has been hit by a fourth mass food poisoning incident in a week. Thirty-four students were hospitalized with suspected food poisoning after eating lunch at a factory cafeteria in Fujian Province on Tuesday, food safety authorities said yesterday. The food watchdog is analyzing fare from the cafeteria of the Guanda Garment […]
Read MoreFrom the Canadian Press: Indonesia’s recent refusal to share sample viruses of avian flu has triggered international concern and criticism from some quarters. But as Indonesia loudly objected, Asia’s giant quietly continued to hoard viruses that influenza experts need to monitor changes in the dangerous H5N1 family. China has not shared human H5N1 virus samples […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: China’s government-backed trade union, long considered a paper tiger, is growing real fangs — delighting worker advocates but making foreign executives sweat. Dismissed for years as a Communist Party mouthpiece and organizer of holiday parties, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has started pushing for tougher labor protections and launching an […]
Read MoreFrom CCTV via Xinhuanet: China’s arable land shrank to 121.8 million hectares by the end of last October, losing 306,800 hectares in the first ten months of 2006. A national land survey (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) by the Ministry of Land and Resources showed land used for construction totaled 258,533 hectares last year, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: With food poisoning and shoddy fake medicine cases frequently reported to have caused deaths in China, the government is expected to issue a comprehensive plan to track and trace food products. According to an ongoing national conference on standardizing market economic order, the national guidelines for food and drug safety have been approved […]
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