China to Restrict Foreign Dairy, Replicate Breast Milk
Effective last Thursday, the Chinese government has set new limits on the sale of foreign milk...
May 6, 2014
Effective last Thursday, the Chinese government has set new limits on the sale of foreign milk...
Feb 28, 2014
China’s Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday that more than 1000 people have...
Feb 16, 2014
Following last November’s adjustment to China’s one-child policy, Sutirtho Patranobis...
Nov 14, 2013
At South China Morning Post, Zhuang Pinghui reports that a growing number of pregnant women in...
Aug 11, 2013
Zhang Suxia, an obstetrician in Shaanxi’s Fuping county, who for eight years allegedly sold her patient’s healthy babies on the booming black market, is at the heart of a recent baby-trafficking scandal, which has...
Jul 13, 2013
A report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...
Oct 25, 2011
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos reveals the most sought-after product for Chinese visitors to bring home from Macau, following years of scandals and scares over tainted food: … Macau still runs, more or less, as a...
Oct 8, 2011
“Environmental changes” in China contributed to a 70% rise in birth defects between 1996 and 2010, from 0.88% to 1.49%, according to China Radio International: Congenital heart disease, hyperdactylism, cleft lip with...
Sep 16, 2011
Research from Peking University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds that the death rate among newborn babies in China has fallen sharply since the mid-1990s. From Reuters: Deaths among newborn babies...
Mar 30, 2010
The bodies of 21 babies were found washed ashore along a river in Shandong after apparently being dumped by mortuary workers. From AP: Local residents and firefighters recovered the bodies Monday after they were discovered under...