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Chinese consumers urged to use common sense about food safety

Chinese health officials, in a striking statement all things considered, told Chinese consumers this past week that they need to take more personal ... Read More »

China shuts down tainted drugmaking company

In a public relations response from the government of China, a company's "license was revoked" this week on the back of a tainted leukemia drug made ... Read More »

Study: Divorce is bad for the environment

While they were studying pandas in a Chinese wildlife reserve, scientists came upon an interesting finding. Among the human citizens who lived on the ... Read More »

Korean farmer grows first-ever square apple

Japan gets credit for producing the square watermelon in the 1980s but Lee Chong, a self-taught Korean farmer, gets the blue ribbon for devising the ... Read More »

China limits transplants to its own citizens

China is tightening up its policy on giving organ transplants from non-citizens of that country amid a very tight supply or organ donors and a growing ... Read More »

China's new HIV cases increase to 3,000 a month

Can you imagine a country where 3,000 new cases of AIDS develop every single month? That's happening in China according to state media in that ... Read More »

This girl in China swam for 3 hours with bound hands and feet

Remember how I told you about the young girl who ran 40 miles a day, and how there was an outcry that this was a form of child abuse? Well, here's a ... Read More »

Taiwan gets tougher on food inspections

In addition to the U.S. and many other countries who regularly import food products from China, Taiwan is now on the list as a nation that is ... Read More »

Food safety system perceived as in crisis, says U.S. Congress

After so many food recalls from sources in China recently, is it any surprise that many Americans are skeptical of imported food and other products ? ... Read More »

China uses Mattel's apology to say exports are generally safe

It looks like China is using Mattel's apology to reinforce the feeling around the world that Chinese exports are generally safe. While I applaud the ... Read More »