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The group of fathers whose children are missing in the brick kilns of Shanxi Province have written a second letter expressing frustration with the long and painful process they have been through searching for their children and decrying the government for their failure to help. Translated by a CDT reader: We are the fathers of […]
Read MoreThe stream of tainted exports from China doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon. Toys, tires, toothpaste, and now fish. From the New York Times: In the latest move against Chinese imports, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday effectively blocked the sale of five types of farm-raised seafood from China because of repeated instances of […]
Read MoreIn Beijing, where doctors advise exercising indoors, experts are concerned about the potential effects of the city’s air pollution on athletes competing in the 2008 Olympics. From Spiegel Online: Escaping to the relative comfort of a car’s interior won’t be an option for those traveling to Beijing in August 2008, when more than 10,000 athletes […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports that Hou Zhenrun, the owner of the mine where newspaper employee Lan Chengzhang was beaten to death in January, was sentenced to life in prison. SIx other mine employees were also sentenced: Five men were given sentences of between five to 15 years in jail for carrying out the attack, while another […]
Read MoreAs the New York Times reports that 900,000 tubes of toothpaste manufactured in China and poisoned with antifreeze have been distributed to hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, and some regular hospitals, the Chinese government defended the quality of the country’s exports. From AP: China insisted Thursday that the safety of its products was “guaranteed,” […]
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