Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'imports from china'
EU presses China over fake goods
By BBC News 01 September 2010 The EU has urged China to step up the fight against black market exports, saying counterfeit cigarettes alone are depriving the EU of 10bn euros (£8bn) in tax revenue annually. The EU Commissioner for...
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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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'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 Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMESSeptember 22, 2009 WINDHOEK, Namibia -- It is not every day that global leaders set foot in this southern African nation of gravel roads, towering sand dunes and a mere...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
India to ensure ban on Chinese toys
By Sujay Mehdudia | The Hindu (India)February 08, 2009 Brushing aside the threat by China of dragging India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Friday plugged the loopholes in the rules that could...
No more chicken in MAS flights from China
The New Straits Times Press (Malayasia) - By BERNAMAJanuary 29, 2009 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has removed chicken from its inflight menu for flights out of China, effective today. This follows the government's indefinite ban on chicken imports from that country.In...
Parents express anger over China milk verdicts
By Karl Malakunas - Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 23, 2009 Angry parents of victims in China's milk scandal accused the government Friday of holding show trials and giving little help to their sick children, after the...
"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...
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...
China tainted food scandal expands
By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer | The Associated PressSeptember 26, 2009 The Hong Kong government says it has found traces of melamine in baby cereals and crackers made in China in an expanding scandal over Chinese milk and other...
China's coming collapse: corruption, finance, trade, outsourcing, politics, law, society
By Centro de Medios Independientes Santiago (Chile)July 20, 2008 Is China about to go burst? What is really behind Chinese finance, politics, trade, politics and society? Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption...
China Didn't Check Drug Supplier, Files Show
By WALT BODANICH and JAKE HOOKER | The New York Times February 16, 2008 A Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has been linked to four deaths in the...
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