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Over 3,000 Dead Pigs Found in Shanghai’s Waters
By Cheri Cheng | Mar 11, 2013 03:08 PM EDTOver 3,000 pig carcasses were found floating in the Huangpu River near Shanghai, China.
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Women Sues after Receiving Gift of Sperm that She Confuses for Moisturizer
By Makini Brice | Mar 06, 2013 01:04 PM ESTA Chinese student will likely not be accepting any more gifts from suitors in the near future.
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China Reports Second Bird Flu Related Death for the Year
By Jennifer Broderick | Feb 23, 2013 01:28 PM ESTChinese authorities reported Saturday that a man from the southwestern part of the populous country is the second person to die from the H5N1 bird flu virus this year alone.
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Chinese Government Officially Acknowledges "Cancer Villages"
By Makini Brice | Feb 22, 2013 01:55 PM ESTAdvocates have been alleging for years that some towns close to factories and polluted waterways have been disproportionately at risk for the disease.
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Thousands of School Uniforms in China May Have Cancer-Causing Dyes
By Makini Brice | Feb 19, 2013 11:26 AM ESTIt’s one of parents’ worst nightmares.
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China Reports 2 Human Cases of Bird Flu
By Makini Brice | Feb 11, 2013 11:05 AM ESTTo make matters even more troubling, it appears that neither of the cases have arisen because of direct contact with poultry.
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Girl Barely Cheats Death After Being Hit By a 90mph Train While Posing for Artsy Photos
By Christine Hsu | Feb 08, 2013 03:15 PM ESTNext time take a moment to think before you decide to set up a glamour photo shoot studio featuring yourself in the path of an oncoming express train going nearly 100 miles per hour.
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Chinese Woman Hospitalized After Drinking Detergent in McDonald's Coke Cup
By Makini Brice | Feb 05, 2013 04:39 PM ESTA McDonald’s restaurant in the Shenyang area of northeastern China has apologized for sending a woman to the hospital because she drank detergent instead of her expected cup of Coca-Cola.
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Study Explains Why Chinese Experience Severe Flu
By Affirunisa Kankudti | Jan 30, 2013 06:05 AM ESTA new study explains how a genetic variant in the Chinese population raises the risk of people in China having severe cases of swine flu or H1N1 as compared to others.
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China to Stop Relying on Inmates for Organ Donation: Minister
By Drishya Nair | Nov 22, 2012 08:27 AM ESTThe Chinese health minister has announced that within the next two years, China will no longer rely on executed prisoners as a source of transplant organs, the state media reported Thursday. The country, with a population of 1.3 billion, with its high demand for organs and facing a chronic shortage of donations, relied on inmates on death row for organs. Although this has been practiced for years together, sparking heated debates and controversies, the Chinese government has never admitted to the same.
