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…
Category: Environment
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…
XIAMEN, June 16 (Xinhua) — China’s State Oceanic Administration dispatched a marine monitoring team Thursday from Xiamen City, in China’s southeast Fujian Province, to monitor radiation in the west Pacific. The aim of the…
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…
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…
ON A cold evening last month a mob of more than 200 broke through a wall and trashed the offices of the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery factory in the eastern Chinese village of Mengxi.They were reacting…
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…
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….
Thousands of people in eastern China are without tap water after a spill from a factory may have dumped toxic chemicals into a river, state media said on Wednesday. The spill comes just a…
You can find palm oil in just about every type of product—hand soap, lipstick, cookies, supplements, peanut butter. It’s even being used as biofuel. The relatively cheap commodity is noted for its stellar nutritional profile…