Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'made in china'
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
No blame in China school collapse
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsMay 08, 2009 China says it has found no evidence that human negligence caused schools to collapse during last year's earthquake. Thousands of schools were damaged while buildings nearby remained intact in the massive...
In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger
By Jill Drew - Washington Post Foreign Service | THE WASHINGTON POST May 03, 2009 JUYUAN, China -- After last May's massive earthquake buried her son under tons of shattered concrete at his collapsed school, Han Xuehua, numb and disbelieving,...
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...
Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers
U.S. Naval InstituteMarch 31, 2009 With tensions already rising due to the Chinese navy becoming more aggressive in asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy seems to have yet another reason to be deeply concerned....
China quake activist detained: rights group
By AFP (Agence France Presse) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsApril 01, 2009 Police in southwestern China have detained an activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in last year's massive earthquake, a rights groups said Wednesday. The...
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...
In China, Despair Mounting Among Migrant Workers
By Ariana Eunjung Cha | The Washington PostFebruary 04, 2009 Millions Are Without Jobs, Options Li Jiang was hungry. Huddled in the freezing rain with more than 1,000 other people at 6 a.m., he stood patiently in line hoping he...
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...
China Rights Advocate Who Tried to Aid Quake Victims' Parents Faces Trial
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 03, 2009 A human rights advocate who tried to help grieving parents push for an official investigation into a school that collapsed during May's earthquake in Sichuan Province has been charged with...
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...
Parents of China Milk Scandal Victims Detained
By REUTERS | The Epoch TimesJanuary 02, 2009 BEIJING--A group of parents whose children fell ill from drinking tainted Chinese milk have been detained by police apparently trying to block them from holding a news conference, one of the fathers...
Tainted products: major scares involving China
By Agence France Presse - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 31, 2008 The 'Made-in-China' brand has been tarnished repeatedly in recent years as Chinese consumer goods and food have been recalled around the world after being found to be unsafe. Here...
"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...
Factories Shut, China Workers Are Suffering
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES November 14, 2008 CHANG'AN, China -- Wang Denggui, father of three, arrived more than a year ago in the palm-lined streets this southern town with a single goal: toil in a factory...
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...
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...
Wal-Mart pulls eggs from China stores amid chemical scare
By Robert J. Saiget | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 29, 2008 Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had pulled a major brand of eggs from its stores in China, as concerns rose that an industrial chemical found in...
Hong Kong tests more China food after egg scare
By MIN LEE | Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 26, 2008 HONG KONG - The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted Hong Kong authorities to expand testing to include...
Fourth China product has melamine (Philippines)
By Dona Pazzibugan | Philippine Daily Inquirer October 15, 2008 MANILA, Philippines -- A fourth locally available dairy product made in China was found to be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, the Bureau of Food and Drugs announced Wednesday. Lotte...
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...
A Rising China Must Have Business Morals
Sin Chew Jit Poh (Malaysia) | MYsinchew.comSeptember 24, 2008 About the same time last year, I wrote an article titled "Souring of 'Made In China' Products" in this column to slam the poor safety of Chinese manufactured products. Despite the...
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...
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,...
China formula scare spreads to ice cream, yoghurt
By Ian Ransom | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 18, 2008 Hong Kong has ordered the recall of a Chinese company's products after milk, ice cream and yoghurt were found to be contaminated with melamine, the compound responsible for...
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...
China's product safety agency under pressure from within
By Don Lee | The Los Angeles TimesSeptember 01, 2008 Lawsuits filed by eight Chinese firms alleging collusion by the government ministry could test the country's new anti-monopoly law. China's product quality and food safety agency came under pressure last...
Police, money silence protests over China quake school deaths
By Robert J. Saiget - Agence France Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 27, 2008 Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests,...
Olympic ceremony singer faked performance
By Mure Dickie | FINANCIAL TIMES (United Kingdom)August 12, 2008 Organisers of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony faked a young girl's rendition of a revolutionary anthem following a late intervention by top leaders of China's ruling Communist party, the event's...
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...
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...
For some, 'Made in China' doesn't fit
By Sylvia Westall - REUTERS | International Herald Tribune July 14, 2008 GIENGEN AN DER BRENZ, Germany: Wafts of golden fluff whirl in the air as Irene Basan wedges a bundle of material onto a spike and gently turns it...
Satellite photos, eyewitnesses reveal Beijing selling weapons to Sudan, despite embargo
By AsiaNews.itJuly 14, 2008 An investigation by the BBC provides, for the first time, proof of Chinese jets and heavy weaponry used against civilians, sold in spite of the embargo. Beijing is not responding, while the UN is asking to...
Made in China: The planes and guns slaughtering Darfur's innocents
thisislondon.co.uk from the Evening StandardJuly 13, 2008 Military equipment and weapons made in China are being used against civilians in Darfur in violation of a United Nations arms embargo in the troubled region of Sudan. One Chinese-built army truck is...
China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
By Hilary Andersson reporting from Darfur | BBC NewsJuly 13, 2008 The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur. The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese...
China detains critic of schools collapsed by quake
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times18 June 2008 A retired Chinese schoolteacher who criticized the construction of schools that collapsed in last month's powerful earthquake has been detained, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Wednesday. Police detained...
Sensitive China Quake Photo Removed
By Cara Anna - The Associated Press - via ABC NEWSJune 15, 2008 A photograph hinting at shoddy school construction was pulled from an exhibition about last month's devastating earthquake, an apparent indication of rising government sensitivity over an issue...
Chinese Parents Call Off Quake Memorial After Official Warning
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJune 13, 2008 Parents who lost children in a particularly horrific school collapse during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province scrapped their plan for a one-month mourning ceremony on Thursday after local...
Media Banned From Quake School
By RADIO FREE ASIA June 06, 2008 Parents across southwestern China are struggling to hold local officials accountable for allegedly shoddy construction standards in school buildings that collapsed during the May 12 earthquake. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan...
Grieving quake parents want facts
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJune 05, 2008 Parents fear there will not be a proper investigation into why so many schools collapsed in last month's earthquake in China. Many complain that although local authorities have promised to investigate, they...
Parents' Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesMay 28, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Bereaved parents whose children were crushed to death in their classrooms during the earthquake in Sichuan Province have turned mourning ceremonies into protests in recent days, forcing officials...
Why China's buildings crumbled
By Geoffrey York | The Globe and Mail (Canada) May 15, 2008 The bodies of the children were lined up in a long row in the mud of a basketball court, just outside the flattened school. Every few minutes, another...
Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages
By David Barboza | The New York Times May 10, 2008 The mud and brick schoolhouses in the lush mountain villages of this remote part of southwestern China are dark and barebones in the best of times. These days, they...
Chinese Suppliers Suffer with Carrefour Boycott
By The Epoch TimesMay 04, 2008 After the French protest at the Beijing Olympic Torch relay, official Chinese media have been highly critical of France. Since then, a retaliatory boycott on French goods has been advocated, resulting in a Chinese...
'Free Tibet' flags made in China
By BBC World News April 28, 2008 Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said...
China sells banned Olympics drugs to UK
By David Eimer | Telegraph (United Kingdom) March 2, 2008 Performance-enhancing drugs banned in Olympic sport are being produced and sold in large quantities in China, close to the sites where the Games will be staged this summer. Human growth...
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...
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...
China Pesticide-Tainted Dumplings Poison 175 Japanese
By Eijiro Ueno and Takashi Hirokawa | Bloomberg(.com) February 01, 2008 Chinese-made dumplings containing pesticides sickened 175 Japanese in a scandal the government says may damage relations with its neighbor, which exported $56.7 billion of food to Japan last year....
The Pitfalls of China's Rough Capitalism
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times January 12, 2008 Ron Rust and Beve Kozub were poking around the toy booths at China's biggest trade fair two years ago when something caught their eye: pouty-faced baby dolls snuggling...
Japanese Company Recalls Globes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesJanuary 10, 2008 A Japanese educational company is recalling 10,000 electronic talking globes after customers complained that self-governing Taiwan was labeled a part of the People's Republic of China. The ''Smart Globe''...
China unhappy with EU's product safety call
By Ben Blanchard and Jason Subler | REUTERS | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsNovember 26, 2007 The top EU trade official told China on Monday its reputation was at risk after a series of product safety scandals and that it must...
New recall for excessive lead involves over 400,000 toys
By Daily PressNovember 8, 2007 Another recall for excessive lead was announced Wednesday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. This new recall covers more than 400,000 toys -- all manufactured in China. These products all violate the federal lead...
Chinese-made toxic toys spark mass North America recall
By AFP | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsNovember 08, 2007 US government authorities on Wednesday recalled 4.2 million units of a toy bead set manufactured in China after warning that it contains a substance that is toxic if ingested. In addition,...
China told to stop blame game for product safety
By Ben Blanchard | REUTERS | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsOctober 24, 2007 China should pay more attention to shoring up its product safety supervision network rather than apportioning blame for recent problems, a senior European Union official said on Wednesday....
The 'Made-In-China' Danger
By Lin Yali | The Epoch TimesOctober 05, 2007 Ultra low wages paid to workers for ultra-low-cost products The Wang couple from New Jersey decided to purchase a baby crib on September 22, 2007. "Just as we were leaving the...
Beyond food and toys, China struggles with its global reputation
By Peter Ford - The Christian Science Monitor | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsSeptember 12, 2007 As China prepares to celebrate its emergence as a global power at next year's Olympic Games, a rash of recent American and international opinion polls...
Toys "R" Us Recalls China-Made Wooden Art Sets
By REUTERS | The New York TimesAugust 30, 2007 Toys "R" Us Inc is recalling 27,000 wooden coloring cases that were made in China and sold under its Imaginarium brand because lead was found in the printed ink on the...
'Made in China' has become a red flag
By Rachel Beck | The Charlotte Observer August 18, 2007 The first Barbie dolls to hit the market in 1959 cost $3 each. Today, the fashion doll won't set you back much more than that. That's the economics of the...
Mattel Recalls 19 Million Toys Sent From China
By Louise Story and David Barboza | The New York Times August 15, 2007 Mattel, the world's largest toy company, yesterday announced the biggest recall in its history. In a double-barreled announcement, the company said it was recalling 436,000 Chinese-made...
U.S corporations scrutinize their imports from China
By Nelson D. Schwartz | International Herald Tribune 01 July 2007 NEW YORK: General Mills, Kellogg, Toys "R" Us and other big U.S. companies are increasing their scrutiny of thousands of everyday products they receive from Chinese suppliers, as widening...
Tires made in China recalled
By Sharon Silke Carty | USA Today June 26, 2007 The government has ordered a small New Jersey tire importer to recall 450,000 Chinese-made light-truck tires because they might come apart and cause fatal crashes, even though the importer says...
F.D.A. Tracked Poisoned Drugs, but Trail Went Cold in China
By Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times June 17, 2007 After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: find out who made...
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