Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'doing business in china'
Police Probe Attack on Activist
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 31, 2010 The beating of an exposer of fraud highlights recent attacks against members of the Chinese media. A leading Chinese campaigner against academic fraud and fake remedies is recovering as police investigate a brutal attack...
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
By Simon Romero for The New York TimesAugust 14, 2010 In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those...
Travel Bans For Activists
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 05, 2010 People previously allowed free movement are now having problems leaving China Chinese lawyers, academics, and rights activists say that authorities are increasingly targeting them through immigration controls, with a growing number of people prevented...
China defends business ties with Iran
By AFP - Agence France Presse (via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News)August 04, 2010 China has defended its business dealings with Iran after a senior US official called on Beijing to follow UN sanctions against the Islamic republic to the letter. The...
China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 Three men accused of "endangering state security" for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Violence Near Tech Park
By Radio Free Asia19 July 2010 Residents want Beijing to investigate graft allegations around a property deal. Thousands of people surrounded government offices near Suzhou's flagship high-tech industrial park in recent days, sparking clashes between riot police and residents angry...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
China's AIDS activists face uphill struggle
By Marianne Barriaux - AFP Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News14 July 2010 Wan Yanhai, China's top AIDS activist, said he suffered years of harassment from authorities which eventually came to a head earlier this year when he...
Chinese Artist Who Led Protest Has Been Jailed, His Wife Says
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJuly 08, 2010 Wu Yuren, an artist who helped lead an unusually bold public protest last winter over a land dispute, has been languishing in a Beijing jail for almost six weeks after...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years
By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 05, 2010 An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry...
Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
By Brad Stone and David Barboza | The New York TimesJune 29, 2010 In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to...
Taiwan pulls movies from Shanghai festival
By Min Lee - Associated Press | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJune 11, 2010 Taiwan has pulled eight movies from China's leading international film festival, an official said Friday, citing concerns that festival organizers could use the occasion to assert Beijing's sovereignty...
Strikes Spread in China
By Radio Free AsiaJune 09, 2010 Does labor action signal the end of the low-wage era? A series of high-profile labor disputes likely signals the end of low-cost manufacturing in China, as workers walk out at three Honda plants in...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
China's Dwindling Resource
By Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Contributor) | The New York TimesJune 03, 2010 A strike at Honda's plant at Foshan in southern China. Suicides and labor unrest at the giant Foxconn factory not far away in Shenzhen. Everywhere in...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
Lawyer Barred from Going Abroad
By Radio Free AsiaMay 17, 2010 A recently disbarred rights lawyer says he has been banned by Chinese border police from leaving the country. Attorney Tang Jitian said in an interview Monday that he had been stopped by security officers...
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete
By Chris Chase | for (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! SportsApril 28, 2010 China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times30 March 2010 In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders....
Murky world of corruption in China
By Michael Bristow | BBC NewsMarch 29, 2010 Bribery and other forms of corruption are problems often encountered by foreign businesses operating in China. This can result in companies providing clients with expensive trips abroad, lavish meals and red envelopes...
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
By Miguel Helft and David Barboza | The New York TimesMarch 22/23, 2010 Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Goolge on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began...
More foreign firms feel unwelcome in China
By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 22, 2010 A growing number of foreign businesses in China feel shut out under new government policies promoting homegrown technology, according a survey released Monday. Fully 38 percent of...
China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet
By Michael Wines | The New York Times12 March 2010 One of China's top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response...
Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets
Michael Evans, Giles Whittell | TimesOnLine (United Kingdom)March 08, 2010 Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China. The attacks...
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesMarch 02, 2010 Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human...
China imposes new rules for personal websites
By David Pierson - Los Angeles Times February 24, 2010 Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests. In a move that will give the government new...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
International Federation of JournalistsJanuary 31, 2009 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009. ...
More Melamine-Tainted Milk Products Found in China
By The Associated Press | The New York TimesJanuary 25, 2010 Melamine-tainted dairy products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk...
China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 24, 2010 China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube...
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content'
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2010 As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are...
Fingertip amputations prompt Graco stroller recall
By Christine Simmons, Associated Press Writer AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 20, 2010 About 1.5 million Graco strollers sold at Wal-Mart, Target and other major retailers are being recalled after some children's fingertips were amputated by hinges on the products....
Google puts China cell phones on hold amid dispute
By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News 19 January 2010 Google postpones launch of 2 mobile phones in China as fallout from censorship rift widens Google has delayed the debut of two mobile...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity
By Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York Times13 January 2010 Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
AP: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from China
By Associated Press - Justin Pritchard | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 11, 2009 Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from China after...
US software firm sues China for 2.2 billion dollars
By Agence France Presse AFP - via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJanuary 05, 2010 A California firm filed a 2.2 billion dollar lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China....
France berates China over sentencing of dissident
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 26, 2009France chastised China on Saturday for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijingof its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union.Liu, China's most prominent dissident, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political...
Car Seat Recall: Car Seat Models for Safety 1st, Cosco, Eddie Bauer, Disney are recalled
By Christine Simmons | The Huffington PostDecember 20, 2009 A baby product manufacturer recalled on Friday about 447,000 of its infant car seat carriers, including some branded with Eddie Bauer and Disney logos, after dozens of reports of the carrier's...
China Bans Domains
By Radio Free Asia14 December 2009 Chinese authorities ban registration for certain Internet domains, sparking fears of a wider crackdown. A ban on registering certain domain names is part of a Chinese effort to tighten Internet controls, according to Chinese...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
World Out of Balance
By Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist | The New York TimesNovember 16, 2009 International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy...
China blocks Internet in Uighur area
UPI - United Press InternationalNovember 05, 2009 Four months after riots in China's Uighur Autonomous Region, residents there are still cut off from the World Wide Web. The government has not said when Internet access will be available again in...
Salute All Cars, Kids. It's a Rule in China.
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesOctober 26, 2009 HUANGPING, China -- All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the...
China's troubling currency policy places world, U.S. in a quandary
The Sacramento Bee | Paul Krugman October 24, 2009 Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn't specifically criticize China's outrageous...
China's Export of Censorship
By Christopher Walker and Sarah Cook | Far Eastern Economic ReviewOctober 12, 2009 The Chinese government's effort to prevent dissident authors from taking part in the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair, an international showcase for freedom of expression, has offered Germany...
Bluetooth Breaches Firewall
By Radio Free Asia01 October 2009 Cell phone technology provides a new method for exchanging information in Internet-censored China. As Beijing redoubles its efforts to censor Internet content during sensitive National Day celebrations, netizens are turning to an existing form...
China Clamps Down on Internet Ahead of 60th Anniversary
By Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 25, 2009 Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country...
HK journalists protest abuse of reporters in China
By Dikki Sinn - Associated Press writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News PhilippinesSeptember 13, 2009 Hundreds of Hong Kong journalists, lawmakers and residents marched Sunday to protest the alleged police beatings of three reporters covering recent unrest in western China...
China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names
By Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesSeptember 05, 2009 News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the...
China Tightens Grip on Rare Minerals
By Keith Bradsher | The New York Times01 September 2009 China is set to tighten its hammerlock on the market for some of the world's most obscure but valuable minerals. China currently accounts for 93 percent of production of so-called...
China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free
By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok | FORBES MAGAZINE via forbes.comAugust 07, 2009 In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and...
Namibians Say Inquiry on China Will Expand
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 August 2009 Namibian prosecutors investigating allegations of kickbacks on government contracts with China have expanded their inquiry to include a Chinese contract to build a key railroad link, investigators...
Hepatitis Group Is Harassed in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times31 July 2009 In the realm of potential threats to China's stability, an organization that advocates on behalf of people infected with hepatitis B would seem to be low risk. But on Wednesday,...
Chinese 'diplomacy' exposed
By John Grobler - Mail&Guardian (South Africa)July 27, 2009 In yet another example of sharp Chinese diplomatic elbows in African business it has emerged that the China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Company (CMEC) tried to charge Namibia...
China Clamps Down on More Social Web Sites, Researcher Says
By Brian Womack - Bloomberg.com21 July 2009 The Chinese government restricted access to more social-networking sites in the past few days, escalating a clampdown that started about six months ago, said Xia Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project....
Crackdown on Rights Lawyers
By RADIO FREE ASIA17 July 2009 Chinese authorities in Beijing have closed a legal research center and revoked the licenses of more than 50 attorneys in a bid to exert greater control over activists. Some 20 officials from Beijing's Civil...
Despite Law, Job Conditions Worsen in China
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 23, 2009 Liu Pan, a 17-year-old factory worker, was crushed to death last April when the machine he was operating malfunctioned. Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister...
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesJune 25, 2009 The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an...
Three-year Prison Sentence for Distributing Bible
By Zheng Yuwen | VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS | The Epoch TimesJune 16, 2009 A Beijing court recently sentenced a bookstore owner to three years in prison for printing and circulating the Bible. He was officially convicted for conducting "illegal...
Why The Case For China's Lawyers Doesn't Look Good
By Austin Ramzy | TIME Magazine in partnership with CNNJune 17, 2009 On May 13, Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in...
China's PC Censorship Software Blocks More than Sex
By Dylan Bushell-Embling | BusinessWeekJune 15, 2009 The controversial new software blocks political and religious websites and is "far more intrusive" than other content control software, say OpenNet researchers China's new Green Dam filtering program blocks far more content than...
China's Computer Folly
A New York Times EditorialJune 12, 2009 China has accomplished remarkable things in the past 20 years, including building one of the world's largest economies. Computers helped speed that development -- and will be even more important in the future....
China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJune 11, 2009 China is facing a storm of protest at home and abroad over new regulations requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include software that can filter out pornography...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
The Price of Cheap: When China's Products Fail, Americans Suffer
By Jessica L. Weinstein | FOX newsMay 28, 2009 Even if an American company goes to court and beats a Chinese manufacturer for providing faulty products, it's virtually impossible to get the overseas company to make good on its legal...
20 years on, Tiananmen survivors demand 'truth' from China
By Agence France Presse (AFP) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2009 Exiled Chinese dissidents who survived the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstration said on Tuesday that, after 20 years, China should be held to account for the...
U.S. manufacturers, retailers see more China risk
By Nick Zieminski | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 21, 2009 U.S. manufacturers and retailers that get products or components from China are increasingly concerned about quality, intellectual property and rising costs in China, and more are looking at...
In China, Knockoff Cellphones Are a Hit
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 28, 2009 The phone's sleek lines and touch-screen keyboard are unmistakably familiar. So is the logo on the back. But a sales clerk at a sprawling electronic goods market in this Chinese...
Chinese drywall poses potential risks
AP IMPACT - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsBy Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Writerswith contribution by Joe McDonald, AP Writer in Beijing April 11, 2009 At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short...
China Cyber Spy System Hit Global Organizations, Group Says
By Dune Lawrence | Bloomberg.comMarch 30, 2009 A China-based cyber spying operation penetrated almost 1,300 computers in embassies and international organizations around the world, according to a report published yesterday that may spur concern about the country's espionage efforts. The...
China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
The Times of IndiaMarch 30, 2009 China's cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government...
Florida Stung by the Not-So-Great (Dry) Wall of China
By Tim Padgett / Miami | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNNMarch 23, 2009 Soon after Danie Beck and her husband bought their two-story townhouse west of Miami in the summer of 2006, she thought an animal had died somewhere...
Want to drink in China? Send a text
By Michael Bristow | BBC World News20 March 2009 Local Chinese officials have been told to text their superiors for approval if they want to drink alcohol. Officials in Hua County in Henan Province must text by 1700 [5 pm]...
Gao Zhisheng's Family Safe in New York
By The Epoch TimesMarch 15, 2009 The family of respected Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng arrived in New York at JFK airport on Saturday night at about 10 PM. Gao's wife Geng He, and their two children, aged 16...
Oasis China concerts are shelved
By BBC World News 02 March 2009 Oasis' debut concerts in China have been cancelled after the authorities revoked the band's licences to play, deeming them "unsuitable". Shows in Beijing and Shanghai due to take place next month have been...
Chinese Human Rights Law Firm Ordered To Close
By DOW JONES Newswires (Agence France Presse)20 February 2009 Chinese authorities have told a Beijing law firm known for its human rights work that it will be closed, lawyers and activists said Friday. A Beijing judicial bureau told the Yitong...
Would-Be Olympic Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 16, 2009 A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a protest in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, said a...
China says within rights to block some websites
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...
China's coming collapse: hidden crisis, global financial mess, corruption
By Centro de Medios Independientes Valparaiso (Chile)December 13, 2008 Is China about to collapse due to hidden crises and corruption? Is global financial crisis impacting China? Is a runaway government corruption destroying Chinese economy and peace? What is really behind...
"Made in China" label battered by product scandals
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 08, 2008 Milk, toothpaste, cough syrup, pet food, eels, blood thinner, car parts, pork, eggs, honey, chicken, dumplings, cooking oil and rice -- if you can fake it or taint...
FDA to detain food shipments from China
The Associated Press | Los Angeles TimesNovember 13, 3008 WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials today ordered dozens of imported foods from China held at the border as possible health risks. Most are ethnic treats, including snacks, drinks and chocolates.It's unusual...
RIPPED OFF: FAKES AND COUNTERFEITS STEAL BUSINESS FROM U.S. EXPORTERS
By Robert R. Frump | Shipping DigestNovember 10, 2008 Tim Demarais, a vice president of ABRO Industries, was cruising through the exhibits at the Canton Trade Fair in the fall of 2002 when he spied a picture of his wife...
Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
By CBS NEWS - 60 MINUTES - Broadcast on November 09, 2008 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth - a place government officials and gangsters don't want you to see....
Crisis Hits Chinese Workers
By RADIO FREE ASIA (credits at end of article)November 04, 2008 Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in China's formerly booming coastal cities are heading home amid factory closures and labor disputes sparked by the global downturn. SHENZHEN, China: Worker...
Microsoft irks China clients
By ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Washington TimesNovember 03, 2008 An anti-piracy tactic by Microsoft Corp. that turns some computer users' screens black has set off a wave of indignation among Chinese consumers, posing renewed problems for the software maker in the...
Courts Compound Pain of China's Tainted Milk
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 17, 2008 The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby's urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine...
Vietnam finds tainted milk from China
By Associated Press - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 07, 2008 Vietnam finds 23 tainted milk products imported from China HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Melamine contamination has been found in 23 milk products imported into Vietnam from China, officials said Tuesday,...
Cadbury recalls HK chocolates
By BBC World NewsSeptember 29, 2008 The makers of Cadbury chocolates have decided to recall 11 products from shops in Hong Kong. The Asia-Pacific regional management of the British-based firm told the Hong Kong government that the recall was a...
Tainted Milk Powder Banned Four Years Ago - But back on shelf with authorities' backup
By Xin Fei | The Epoch Times September 22, 2008 Deception that began four years ago continues, as the furore of tainted powdered milk causing kidney stones in babies spreads throughout China. The public learned, earlier this month, that milk...
Skin problems linked to chairs made in China
The Associated Press | The Denver PostSeptember 11, 2008 PARIS -- First tainted baby milk, and now toxic chairs from China. Customers in France who bought Chinese-made recliners are complaining of stinging allergic rashes and infections. One customer, Caroline Morin,...
Toxic milk toll rockets in China
From BBC News15 September, 2008 A total of 1,253 Chinese children have fallen ill after drinking contaminated milk powder, and two babies have died, China's health ministry says. It confirmed the big jump in the numbers affected at a news...
FDA: Melamine found in baby formula made in China
By Elizabeth Weise | USA TODAYSeptember 12, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration is alerting Asian and ethnic markets across the USA that infant formula made in China may be contaminated. The FDA is working with state health agencies across...
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