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From AP, via Washingtonpost.com: Heart disease, cancer and stroke are now the top killers of middle-aged people in China, fueled by high blood pressure and smoking, which have developed alongside the communist country’s economy, according to one of the largest surveys of its kind. The research into the major causes of death in adults found […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): Imagine what would have happened if during the 1980s an American communications company had provided information that allowed the South African government to track down and imprison an anti-apartheid activist. That is pretty much the moral equivalent of what Yahoo has just done in China in the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s environment watchdog, vowed to take into account environmental elements when assessing its economic growth, the head of SEPA said here Wednesday… The World Bank estimates 400,000 people in China die each year from air pollution-related illnesses, mainly lung and heart diseases. It says direct damage costs […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: In a trend fraught with troubling political and social implications, China will soon find itself with a marriage-age population remarkably out of balance, with about 23 million more young men than women available for them to marry in this decade and the next – what demographers term a “marriage squeeze.” […]
Read MoreFrom Le Monde Diplomatique: China is celebrating the 600th anniversary of the amazing voyages of Admiral Zheng He, as great a navigator as Captain Cook or Columbus, and of his contribution to Chinese curiosity about the world.
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