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From the New York Times: Five men on battered motorcycles pulled up at this roadside village from a nearby town and summoned the local headman. Wearing ordinary clothes and bearing boxes of vaccine from two separate manufacturers, they worked their way from house to house, roughly 300 dwellings in all, to vaccinate every chicken, duck […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Globe and Mail: Beijing tried to ease strains with Moscow over a river-borne toxic spill flowing toward Russia by promising Thursday to send filtering materials, while five more Chinese cities prepared to stop drawing water from the river.
Read MoreESWN has translated two articles from the Chinese press about AIDS in China. From China Youth Daily, “Visiting an AIDS Village in Northern Anhui“: 55-year-old Lu Jingxian sat by his lonesome self on the side of the bed, chewing on the dried bun like an expectant mountain goat bleating away. In the early 1990’s, he […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Steel is the measure of an industrial economy. Or so thought Chairman Mao when, to achieve his utopian Great Leap Forward in 1958, he ordered the masses to quit their communal fields and instead melt woks and teakettles to forge pig iron in farmyard blast furnaces. The man-made famine that followed killed millions. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio New Zealand: Two Chinese coal mine officials have been arrested for alleged dereliction of duty after an explosion that killed at least 164 miners on Sunday. About seven others are still said to be missing, amid conflicting reports about how many people were in the mine. See also “China aims to reassure public […]
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