On the Christian Science Monitor blog, Peter Ford looks at China’s reaction to the swine flu outbreak: Nobody could accuse Beijing of a coverup over swine flu. The national TV evening news Monday, when the first confirmed...
Read MoreAs reported on PressTV, health officials around the world are watching the swine flu’s progress carefully: A Chinese virologist has warned of spreading deadly swine flu in China and India after Mexico announced the death...
Read MoreReuters reports on a severe drought hitting central and northern China: The drought gripping parts of central and northern China has sent Zhengzhou wheat futures prices up 5 percent this week but physical prices have not moved,...
Read MoreChinese officials move to contain an unusual outbreak of bird flu in Hong Kong, but haven’t yet traced where the infected birds came from. From the Wall Street Journal: Authorities here slaughtered 2,700 birds and banned...
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post via Redorbit.com : Hong Kong’s health chief said yesterday that a run on services at Tuen Mun hospital, the hospital worst hit by demands for flu- related treatment, had slowed despite reports...
Read MoreWenzhou-based journalist Zhang Xiang’ou is taking advantage of the current concern over manipulated photos online to examine the fine line between reporting and propaganda in China. Chinese photographers have long been...
Read MoreThe Economist writes about the different challenges SEPA, China’s environmental protection agency, faces in its efforts to curb pollution: THESE days China’s environmental bureaucrats know how to talk the talk. They...
Read MoreFrom The Reuters: China has dismissed Internet gossip that its first photo of the moon taken from a lunar orbiter might have been plagiarised from NASA, local media said on Monday. The country launched its first lunar probe, the Chang’e 1, in October and released a photo featuring a patch of grey moon surface splotched […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has not shared any human H5N1 bird flu samples with WHO-accredited laboratories for over a year, sparking renewed fears that it may be frustrating efforts to track changes in the virus and find ways to fight it. But Henk Bekedam, WHO’s representative in China, said the Chinese had shared their scientific analyses […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Bird flu could spread fast in rural areas in case of an outbreak because of the loopholes in the public health system, Health Minister Gao Qiang warned yesterday. Speaking at the China Development Forum, Gao conceded that the country’s disease control and prevention system needed more professional medical staff, better infrastructure and […]
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