Foxconn Suicides: iPhone and iPad Factory Under Scrutiny
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| The massive Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is known for assembling famous electronic goods like Apple's iPhone and iPad. But in recent months it has gained a darker image, as a place where distraught workers regularly throw themselves to their deaths. The latest fatality came on Tuesday morning, when a 19-year-old employee died in a fall in the company's Shenzhen compound, according to the state-run Xinhua news service. He was the ninth worker this year to have died in a fall from factory buildings on Foxconn's properties in Shenzhen; two have survived suicide attempts, according to... |
Treatment Improves Life of Youngest-Ever Stroke Patient with Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| SHENZHEN, China, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has announced the successful treatment with umbilical cord stem cells of the youngest stroke patient ever to undergo such a procedure. The announcement was made following a two-month evaluation period by physicians in her native country, Hungary, to verify the positive results. Starting from October 28th, Beike provided umbilical cord stem cells to the Nanshan People's Hospital for the treatment of a four-month-old Hungarian baby girl named Timea Gresco, who had suffered a stroke when she was delivered three months prematurely. Umbilical cord stem cells were delivered intravenously over... |
China: A Female Police Chief,15 Years in Prison for Taking Sexual Favors from 20 Male Cops
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| /begin my translation China: a Female Police Chief, 15 Years in Prison for Taking Sexual Favors from 20 Male Cops [Yonhap News 2005-06-21] (Seoul, Yonhap News) Lee Sang-min -- Chinese authorities sentenced to 15 years in prison An Hui-jun(female, age:50), a former female police chief of Luohu, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, from taking sexual favors for about 20 young male cops, according to June 20th report of TVBS TV. Known as 'modern-day Zetian Wuhou,' named after the decadent empress Zetian Wuhou(reign: 690-705AD) of Tang Dynasty, the former police chief forced young male cops to have sex with her, in exchange for their... |
More than 30,000 people protest Japan in China's Shenzhen
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| More than 30,000 people protest Japan in China's Shenzhen 52 minutes ago World - AFP SHENZHEN, China (AFP) - More than 30,000 people demonstrated against Japan in southern China's Shenzhen city, a Japanese consulate spokesman told AFP. The demonstrators gathered in separate groups outside the Japanese supermarket Jusco in this boomtown near Hong Kong Sunday, said Chiharu Tsuruoka, spokesman for the Japanese consulate in Guangdong province, where Shenzhen is located. "There were five groups today. The first group of 1,000 arrived at Jusco supermarket at 10:30 am (0230 GMT)," said Tsuruoka. "The second one with 10,000 people passed by at... |
China's fury doesn't wash, but why the froth?(evidence of staged protests)
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| Greater China Apr 14, 2005 China's fury doesn't wash, but why the froth?By Marc Erikson SHENZHEN - Here in Shenzhen from Hong Kong last Sunday with a couple of friends for some weekend shopping, I had the misfortune of bumping into a several-thousand strong anti-Japanese demonstration at a shopping center - a day trip wasted. Demonstrations had also been held the previous Sunday in this special-economic-zone city across the mainland border with Hong Kong. At that time, some Japanese (and for good measure, other) department store display windows were smashed, some items looted. This has been going on for... |
From China's Provinces, a Crafty Germ Spreads
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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HUNDE, China — An hour south of Guangzhou, the Dongyuan animal market presents endless opportunities for an emerging germ. In hundreds of cramped stalls that stink of blood and guts, wholesale food vendors tend to veritable zoos that will grace Guangdong Province's tables: snakes, chickens, cats, turtles, badgers, frogs. And, in summer, sometimes rats, too.They are all stacked in cages one on top of another — which in turn serve as seats, card tables and dining quarters for the poor migrants who work there. On a recent morning, near stall 17, there were beheaded snakes, disemboweled frogs and feathers...
Where does the virus come from? [SARS]
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| Where does the virus come from? This anecdote, reported by the Journal Ming Bao on march 29 is interesting: "WHO pointed out in earlier days that SARS was originally detected in FoShan and HeYuan county, Guangdong Province. A medicial professor in RenMin hospital of HeYuan county named Xie JinKui does not agree with that assumption. Prof. Xie said that the first case in HeYuan was detected on 17th of Dec, last year (2002). The patient is a 35 year old man. He is a cook in ShenZhen, working in a restaurant where he has close contact with wild animals, such... |
First Sars victim says sorry
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| CHINESE authorities have identified the patient who started the Sars epidemic that has killed at least 770 people around the world. Huang Xingchu, 36, a cook who prepared wild animal dishes in a restaurant in Shenzhen on the Hong Kong border, survived the infection, but now lives in hiding for fear of retribution. Medical experts believe that the Sars virus was passed from the civet cat, a favourite on menus around Hong Kong, to human beings. A restaurant kitchen or livestock market are the most likely places where this happened. The infected cook lost his job and many friends because... |
China's 'SARS-free' city anything but calm
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| Situation in 'SARS-free' city anything but calmBy Asia Times Online Staff HONG KONG - Pingtang is a small suburb on the outskirts of Changsha, capital of south-central China's Hunan province. All vehicles heading toward Changsha from Xiangtan now must pass through Pingtang. During the climax of local anti-SARS efforts, authorities established a temporary traffic checkpoint where everyone who was coming or going received a compulsory body-temperature check and each vehicle passing through was inspected. Last week, however, this checkpoint was converted into a station for fighting the flooding of the Xiang River, a main waterway in the province. After the... |
SARS Virus Mutating Quickly Into 2 Forms
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| SARS Virus Mutating Quickly Into 2 Forms 55 minutes ago Add Health - AP to My Yahoo! By MARGARET WONG, Associated Press Writer HONG KONG - Like a "murderer who is trying to change his fingerprints," the SARS (news - web sites) virus is mutating rapidly into at least two forms, complicating efforts to develop a solid diagnosis and a vaccine, researchers say. AP Photo · WHO to send SARS test kits to TaiwanAFP - 33 minutes ago · Hong Kong government to discuss travel advisory with WHOAFP - 45 minutes ago · SARS Virus Mutating Quickly Into 2 Forms... |
Senior Chinese leaders watch spacecraft launch
Friday 10th of September 2010 05:55:00 PM
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| JIUQUAN, Gansu, Dec. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Senior Chinese leaders watched the launch of China's fourth unmanned spacecraft "ShenzhenIV" early Monday morning at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. They included China's top legislator Li Peng, Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo, and Jia Qinglin Wu and Jia are members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. Other high-ranking officials at the site were Cao Gangchuan, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission; Song Jian, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; and Li Jinai, head of the... |
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