Banned chemical leads to recall of medicine

BEIJING – China’s top drug authority ordered the recall at the weekend of an antibiotic medicine that is laced with a banned plasticizer as public concern about plasticizer-tainted products builds. Test results showed that amoxicillin…

Millions hit by flood havoc in China

A makeshift raft provides an effective, if rudimentary, form of transport in a flooded village in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of more than 500,000 people in…

Flood alert at top level; 555,000 evacuated

    Residents walk along a flooded street in Kaihua county, Zhejiang province June 15, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING – China has mobilised troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest…

China to exempts “green” vehicles from taxation

BEIJING — The State Council, or China’s cabinet, on Wednesday began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation for the implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, which will exempt electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles…

More falls to hit rain-ravaged regions

  BEIJING – A new round of rain beginning on Monday was expected to batter Central, East and South China, where 98 people have died and 78 are missing due to rain-triggered floods, landslides and…

China hit by new lead poisoning scare

BEIJING — More than 600 people in China, including 103 children, have been found with high and sometimes dangerous levels of lead in their blood, state media said Monday, in the latest environmental health scare….