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From Time Asia: To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better”especially if you can get dosed directly through an intravenous line… But keeping the peace in the waiting room may be contributing to […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Zimbabwe’s political isolation has only hastened the process, as President Mugabe’s growing alienation from the West has created an economic vacuum that Beijing is rushing to fill. China’s policy of non-interference in the political affairs of others, and a refusal to take other governments to task on issues of human rights and […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: GLOBAL tremors in the currency, bond and commodity markets greeted China’s announcement that the yuan will no longer be pegged to the dollar. No longer is it just Washington that has the power to cause shockwaves. For many people, the tremors reflected the view that China is the root cause of America’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens, sources said on Wednesday. The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 725 km (450 miles) northeast of Beijing, was one of a […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via OptusNet: As of noon on Tuesday, Sichuan reported 117 people had been stricken with the disease, of which 76 cases have been confirmed. Only five patients have recovered and left hospital so far. The disease, caused by the streptococcus suis bacteria, which is spread among pigs, has proved so deadly that about […]
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