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From Reuters, news that Margaret Chan has been named head of the World Health Organization, making her the first Chinese person to head a U.N. agency: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday nominated China’s Margaret Chan, its top official on bird flu, as its new chief as it gears up for a feared flu […]
Read MoreResearch-China.org has posted a translation of an article in Fenghuang Weekly about human trafficking through orphanages in Hunan Province. This translation is the second in a series of reports about the scandal. The first article is available here. From the second installment: The mother of Duan Meilin, Chen Yejin, had previously worked at a welfare […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Since China put the European Union on its list of approved tourist destinations two years ago, the volume of Chinese sightseers to the Continent has surged, and France is their top destination… “How to accommodate the growth of visitors is something that’s on everyone’s mind, and the Chinese are a […]
Read MoreFrom Uganda’s The Monitor, an African view of the recent China-Africa summit held in Beijing: While the Sino-Africa relationship is supposed to be more “brotherly” and equal than with what the continent has had with the West for the last 120 years, the body language in Beijing suggests that we are continuing the relationship of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, an article about how increasing wealth and a changing lifestyle in China is leading to high levels of obesity: Newly rich China, where the wealth gap is expanding year by year, has more than double as many obese people as it has people living in abject poverty, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. […]
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