Just over a year has gone by since Covid emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and the world still has many questions about where and how it originated. The World Health Organisation sent a team to China this week to investigate… Read More ›
Health
China blocks WHO while Covid conspiracy theories fly
China has yet to explain why it delayed approval for a World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts to visit the country, significantly at a time when state media publish claims that the coronavirus pandemic started elsewhere. The WHO team’s… Read More ›
China scrambles to build 1,000 bed hospital dedicated to coronavirus patients
China reported Saturday a jump in the number of people infected with a new virus to 1,287 with 41 deaths, as it expanded its lockdown to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for… Read More ›
China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale
A new report claims that China is still engaged in the widespread and systematic harvesting of organs from prisoners, and says that people whose views conflict with the ruling Chinese Communist Party are being murdered for their organs. The report… Read More ›
China’s heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world
The average surface temperature in China has increased by 0.23°C (0.4°F) each decade of the last 65 years, said a Chinese government official—twice the average pace of warming everywhere else on the planet. This isn’t the first time the Chinese government… Read More ›
China is most at risk for Ebola outbreak because of Chinese workers in Africa
While international fears continue to rise as Ebola crosses international borders and continents, China still has not reported a confirmed case of the deadly virus. But Professor Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine… Read More ›
Has China found the cure for Ebola?
A Chinese pharmaceutical company working with Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), a PLA-affiliated research institution, claims to have developed an experimental cure for the Ebola virus. An outbreak of the deadly virus in west Africa has become a global… Read More ›
Overgrown Beijing slaps new limits on industry in bid to cut smog
China‘s overgrown and smog-hit capital Beijing has passed new rules banning the expansion of polluting and resource-intensive industries, the local government said on Friday. In a list of restrictions published on its website (www.beijing.gov.cn), the municipal government said it would… Read More ›
Chinese river mysteriously turns blood red overnight
A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color. Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said… Read More ›
China: Beijing to enforce use of clean coal in anti-pollution drive
China‘s capital city, Beijing, will enforce the use of cleaner low-sulphur coal from August 1st in a bid to tackle the soaring levels of air pollution that frequently clog the country’s major cities, the official Xinhua media agency said on… Read More ›
Top executives refuse to work in China; slowing economy and pollution the main reasons
China‘s smog is making it harder for foreign firms to convince top executives to work in the country, the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing said on Wednesday, offering some of the strongest evidence yet on how pollution is hurting… Read More ›
China report says $330 billion more to do fair share on climate; Official stance is developed nations must bear responsibility
China must increase spending on emission cuts and clean technologies by 2 trillion yuan ($330 billion) to do its fair share to halt climate change, a report by Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics said. It urged the government… Read More ›
Can China stop organ trafficking?
Guo Bin, a six-year-old boy from Shanxi province, in northern China, thought the sky had gone permanently dark when he woke up, one day this summer, bloody-faced and crying near his parents’ home. “We originally thought he had fallen down… Read More ›
Opportunity glimmers through China’s toxic smog
As China’s smog levels crept past record highs in early December, the phone lines at pollution-busting kit maker Broad Group lit up with Chinese customers worried about hazardous pollution levels that have gripped China this year. China’s government is struggling… Read More ›
China says world’s worst pollution has benefits
Commentaries by two of China’s most influential news outlets suggesting that an ongoing air pollution crisis was not without a silver lining drew a withering reaction on Tuesday from internet users and other media. In online commentaries on Monday, state… Read More ›
Is China really ready for the next influenza outbreak?
Reports on China’s recent response to the outbreak of novel influenza have reflected broad international satisfaction. While we share this satisfaction, we are nonetheless concerned that the international public health community overestimates China’s ability to effectively contain and control a… Read More ›
Thousands of dead fish found in Chinese river after toxic spill
Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in a river in central China following a toxic spill, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of pollution scandals to hit the country’s water supplies. Xinhua said… Read More ›
Politics, cost of living push Hong Kong residents overseas
Prior to 1997, a flood of residents left Hong Kong’s shores, worried about what would happen when the former British colony returned to Chinese control. Now, more than 15 years after the handover, the number of people emigrating from the… Read More ›
China: Spending a penny could cost 100 yuan in Shenzhen
People with a poor aim are to be fined if they miss their mark when using public toilets in Shenzhen, officials said – provoking online derision over how the rule will be enforced. The penalty will apply to those who… Read More ›
In Hong Kong, inflation spooks the spirit world during China’s “Ghost Festival”
Comfort in the afterlife requires lots more ‘Ghost Money‘ – a $1 trillion bill. Deep in China’s spirit world, an inflation crisis is brewing that would give central bankers chills. For hundreds of years, Chinese have burned stacks of so-called… Read More ›
China’s pollution reduces life span by 5.5 years
Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life… Read More ›
China bird flu outbreak: 3 good, 3 bad and 3 very bad signs
Since the new avian flu strain H7N9 began appearing in China earlier this year, it’s infected over 100 people, killed 22, spread to five provinces plus Beijing and Shanghai and, as of Wednesday, is confirmed to have spread abroad to Taiwan. How… Read More ›
Hong Kong lawyer declared brain dead awakes after calls to pull plug
Lawyer Suzanne Chin is convinced that what happened to her four years ago is nothing short of a miracle. The mother of two was living and working in Hong Kong when she suffered a heart attack, was hospitalised in a… Read More ›
Analysts split over report saying China ‘far healthier’ than America
A report by a top mainland academic institution that suggests China is in a far healthier state than the United States and will soon overtake the world’s only superpower economically has sparked controversy, with some analysts casting doubt on it…. Read More ›
Natural birth a tough sell in China’s caesarean boom
As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet towards a hospital room called the “White House”, minutes after giving birth in a candlelit water pool. The suite is adorned with an… Read More ›
China’s top ten protesters listed by Tencent News
On December 30, 2012, Tencent News, a Chinese news website owned by China’s largest Internet service company Tencent, published a list of China’s 10 most important protesters in the past two years. Although the piece was soon censored on the Tencent News website, the… Read More ›
China bans some hospitals from raising more debt
China ordered county-level public hospitals to stop borrowing money after an audit showed some of them took on too much debt when upgrading facilities, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. The National Development and Reform Commission, the finance and health… Read More ›
Ye Zilong breaks new ground as eye doctor to China’s poor
Famous eye doctor now heads three private hospitals, which offer free eye operations. A decade ago, Dr Ye Zilong was renowned for his ability to cure eye diseases. His patients included the wealthy, and distinguished government officials including former paramount… Read More ›
Hunan Hospital Passed Water for Vaccine
Hong Kong’s Singtao Daily says, according to Hunan’s rednet.cn, a hospital in You County, Hunan Province was exposed to have deceived people by passing water for crystalli vaccine to be injected in children in order to make fraudulent money. The… Read More ›
Chinese official says lack of integrity is cause of food hazards
Ming Pao reports that Liu Peizhi, deputy director of the State Council Food Safety Office, says that lack of integrity is the root cause for food hazards, and that it is necessary to enhance integrity in society and build up… Read More ›
Hangzhou kidney trade centre
According to Ming Pao’s exclusive report, there is a major kidney trade centre in Hangzhou, China where youngsters queue for sale of their kidneys with the mindset of making quick money. Some of them plan to use the money to… Read More ›
Bak choi found to be sprayed with formalin
Vegetable wholesalers in Shandong have been caught spraying toxic formalin on bak choi to keep them fresh in the latest food safety scandal to hit the mainland. Vendors in Qingzhou said that spraying diluted formalin on bak choi had become… Read More ›
South Korea ‘to target powdered human flesh capsules’ from China
South Korea says it will increase customs inspections targeting contaminated capsules containing powdered human flesh. The Korea Customs Service said it had found almost 17,500 of the capsules being smuggled into the country from China since August 2011. The powdered… Read More ›
Dried fruit is hit by food scandal
Preserved fruit is the latest addition to the mainland’s expanding list of unsafe foods, after an investigation by state television found that some were processed in filthy factories and contained excessive additives. Preserved peaches were found packed in bags that… Read More ›
Greenpeace finds tainted Lipton tea bags in China
Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace said on Tuesday that an investigation it had conducted found tea bags sold in China by Unilever‘s Lipton brand contained unsafe levels of pesticide residue, though Unilever said the product was safe and to standard. Greenpeace… Read More ›
Capsules Made of Toxic Gelatin, Another Food Scandal in China
Since the mass protests due to melamine milk scandal, the Chinese government, though imprisoning protest leader Zhao Lianhai, has begun to pay attention to the problems of poisoned food. In spite of that, lots of food scandals soon followed. The… Read More ›
