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Smoking and driving are China’s top killers

AFP used China Daily’s report in this news: “Lung cancer and traffic accidents have become the top causes of death in China, according to official research, reflecting the huge number of smokers and increasingly hazardous roads. The study by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was based on data gathered between 1991 and 2000 and […]

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China to launch nationwide crackdown against online computer games

According to AFP: “China is gearing up for a nationwide crackdown on online computer games, including those with sensitive political content, officials said. The operation is the latest attempt by China to rein in what it perceives as the harmful influences of the Internet in a country where usage has exploded in recent years, with […]

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Honours for China’s Sars whistle blower

This news is on today’s Straits Times. “The military doctor who blew the whistle on the Chinese government’s cover-up of Sars last year is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Dr Jiang Yanyong, who had called for a political reassessment of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, […]

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