Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'health'
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...
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...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
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...
Lead Pollution Harms Children
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 05, 2010 Villagers in southern China say authorities are trying to hide the effects of lead poisoning on their children. More than 100 children in a village in southern China have tested positive for elevated lead...
Miami agents seize dangerous toys from China
Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald | South Florida Sun-Sentinel December 23, 2009 Customs agents in Miami have seized several shipments of toys from China considered dangerous by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The toys contained hazardous materials, including lead paint,...
Activist Refused Lawyer Visit
By Radio Free Asia December 08, 2009 A Chinese activist representing tainted-milk victims is barred from seeing his lawyer. A spokesman for victims in last year's tainted milk scandal detained for weeks has yet to be allowed to speak with...
China AIDS sufferers face widespread discrimination: U.N.
By REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsNovember 27, 2009 People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday. China's...
Tainted Milk Parents Held
By Radio Free AsiaSeptember 14, 2009 Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children. Three parents of children sickened in China's 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of...
China Tainted Milk Parents Warned Against Meeting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times10 September 2009 Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said...
Lead Children Denied Tests
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 26, 2009 Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning. Promises by local government officials offering free blood tests to children affected by pollution from smelting...
Reporters banned from Chinese village
By BBC World NewsAugust 25, 2009 Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick. Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists,...
Parents of China lead victims fear for future
By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse AFP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 23, 2009 HENGJIANG, China (AFP) - The landscape near Hengjiang village offers a picture-postcard view of China, with rice paddies, water buffaloes and rolling green hills. It...
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...
1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***
*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 ZHONGLOU, China -- When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black...
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...
AIDS takes deadly toll in China
By Jill McGivering | BBC World NewsFebruary 18, 2009 Chinese officials have said that HIV/Aids was the leading cause of death last year, compared with other infectious diseases. It is thought to be the first time this has happened. A...
Is China Making Its Bird Flu Outbreak Worse?
By Austin Ramzy | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNN February 13, 2009 One thing is certain about avian influenza: it's deadly. Of the three people who contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus in China last year, three died....
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...
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....
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...
Drug-resistant HIV strains turning up in China
By Tan Ee Lyn | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 10, 2008 Drug-resistant HIV strains are turning up in parts of China as the virus stretches beyond high-risk groups and gains a stronger foothold in the general population, a...
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,...
Nearly 13,000 hospitalized in China milk scandal
By Chris Buckley | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 22, 2008 The number of Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula doubled to nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator resigned on Monday in the...
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...
Yao has delivered, now it's China's turn
By Adrian Wojnarowski | Yahoo! SportsAugust 10, 2008 BEIJING - On his way out of the game, Yao Ming thrust his fist through the air, and soon made that long, wobbly walk to the Chinese bench. The end of a...
China's love of cigarettes thwarts pledge of smoke-free Olympics
By Andrew Jacobs - International Herald Tribune July 23, 2008 BEIJING: A smartly dressed man carried a lighted cigarette into the elevator of an upscale apartment building one recent morning, and something remarkable happened. A fellow passenger, a middle-aged matron...
Beijing Drops Restaurants in Smoking Ban
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesApril 14, 2008 Beijing has backtracked on a proposed public smoking ban ahead of this summer's Olympics, with a city official saying Monday that restaurants will no longer be included due to...
The F.D.A. in Crisis: Another Danger Made in China
Editorial | The New York TimesFebruary 03, 2008 The F.D.A. -- and American consumers -- got another warning last week about the need for vigilant monitoring of imported drugs from the developing world, especially from China. The contamination of a...
In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By David Barboza | The New York TimesDecember 15, 2007 Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of...
Trucks Power China's Economy, at a Suffocating Cost
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesDecember 08, 2007 Every night, columns of hulking blue and red freight trucks invade China's major cities with a reverberating roar of engines and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims...
China bans AIDS rights meeting, group says
By REUTERS | iva (uncensored) Yahoo! News 29 July 2007 China has banned AIDS activists from holding a meeting on the rights of people with the disease, one of the organisers said on Sunday, citing official fears over foreign involvement...
China Bars U.S. Trip for Doctor Who Exposed SARS Cover-Up
By Joseph Kahn | The New York Times July 13, 2007 A Chinese doctor who exposed the cover-up of China's SARS outbreak in 2003 has been barred from traveling to the United States to collect a human rights award, a...
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