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From China Business Times, translated by Sinofile: Nov. 12, an expert at the Ministry of Health discloses a national medical reform will be launched at the beginning of next year. The basic medical system is supposed to cover 90% of all Chinese people. Rural areas will be a priority for the implementation of the reform. […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times: A blast at a PetroChina plant in north-eastern Jilin province on Nov 13 spilt 100 tonnes of benzene into the Songhua River. Officials waited nine days before they cut Harbin’s water supply and claimed initially that it was for maintenance. They acknowledged the massive water pollution only later. All responsible parties […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: One of the shredded documents the FBI says it recovered from Chi Mak‘s trash seemed to be a set of instructions. Machine printed, in Chinese, it urged Mr. Mak – an engineer for a California defense firm and a naturalized US citizen – to attend more seminars on special subject […]
Read MoreFrom Salon.com: On Friendship Street in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, hundreds of people carrying white canisters, red buckets, plastic bowls and cooking pots wait for a tanker truck. They have been waiting here in the bitter cold since early morning — though the water delivery isn’t scheduled until 11 a.m. Two police officers […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Fang said blogs could improve people’s lives through better information sharing, though most bloggers in China only write about their personal feelings and life. But this could change: a 50-year-old blogger broke the news of a fatal attack on a woman on Beijing’s Wangfujing Road on November 7 last year and many papers […]
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