China

Dairy companies apologize for poisoning babies

"We sincerely apologise...and we beg your forgiveness," read the note from 22 dairy firms, led by the now-bankrupt Sanlu. It said a compensation fund had been established for the victims, including the families of thousands of babies still suffering from urinary problems such as kidney stones.

A new Internet shopping mall is opening in China next month that will take payments in the widely used China UnionPay Co cards for Japanese products. “Buy-J.com” will sell gadgets, clothing and cosmetics from about 100 Japanese companies, aiming for 4 billion yen in sales the first year.

Early this month, the people of Shiqiao, a town in Nanjing's Pukou District, received a list of sixteen questions and answers:

Item 3: "What was your total family income in 2008?

Answer: more than 8,000 yuan."

Item 16: "If you were to measure happiness on a 100-point scale, how many points would you give yourself?
Answer: between 90 and 100."

It was almost impossible to find this story with photo - but here it is..in fact I dont see why you would bother to report it without one..but then what would I know.

CCTV, China: A fatal accident was captured on camera when a coal truck made a roll over trying to dodge two motorcyclists that run a red light at an intersection.

Both! because those Chinese-type people have been doing cheap fake copies of the real things for centuries..everyone knows that - and I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt find a few Gucci Bags and Loafers along with a set of Golf Clubs and some Microsoft System Discs as well.

Police in China have arrested two people suspected of despoiling the national flag and other symbols of the ruling Communist Party with ink-filled eggs

Its guidelines were particularly critical of men who wore white socks with black shoes, but also weighed in on the subject of both pyjamas and the other great fashion faux pas – the male trouser leg rolled up to the knee to cool off.

Perhaps the greatest example of this boom is its role in the largest mass slaughter of any large animals going on today. Every year the fins from up to 70 million sharks are being used to make shark fin soup -- the vast majority going to China and Hong Kong.

Two Chinese ships that sailed into waters surrounding disputed islands in the East China Sea were on "normal patrol" in an area under Beijing's jurisdiction, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

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 it, you can almost guarantee it's happened in China.

Since the mid-sixties Scientists and Baffled TV Exec's around the Planet have searched in vain for the origin of the Mysterious Giant Flying Turtle known as Gamera - at last his secret is out...He's Chinese!!

The 300 chosen ones of the Chicom Central Committee dont seem to be having a good year do they? - toxic food,pollution,tibetans,financial turbulance..and now Lazarus-like - Jesus pokes his head around the corner.

now this seems to be a lazy rehash of a recent feature article in Time..and no photos!! (who's feeding on who?).

Exactly 100 years ago the behaviour of colonial agents of Belgian King Leopold II provoked just that. Then, Congo was "the issue," igniting a publicity firestorm from Europe to the US that drew vast crowds to public debates to condemn the behaviour of Leopold's representatives as they pillaged the Congo river basin for natural rubber.