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Monday, March 31, 2008

China, U.S. move forward on new food safety agreement
The U.S. and China have agreed to implement a new bilateral food safety system by initially focusing on four product categories, said FDA officials who recently returned from an overseas trip. Last year, U.S. and China agreed to a binding accord in Beijing that would set up new registrat... Continued...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

China regrets Australian probe into Chinese toilet paper
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) - China's Ministry of Commerce voiced regret on Thursday over Australia's initiation of investigation into the alleged dumping and subsidizing of toilet paper imported from China. Ministry spokesman Wang Xinpei said the government believed that the investigation was lau... Continued...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Cargill launches food safety programme with China
Cargill said in a statement that it will provide Chinese government officials, academics and business leaders with a two week food safety training programme to expand their expertise and knowledge in food safety management. Cargill said that the programme was part of a global initiative involving... Continued...

Indian commentary discusses China's "growing presence" in Africa
China's growing presence in Africa has led to arguments (especially common in the Western press) that the country is seeking to meet its growing requirements of primary products, including oil, by building a relationship reminiscent of a colonial past with many African countries. It is worth investi... Continued...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

China: Heparin contaminant identified
A compound related to a common nutritional supplement has been identified as the contaminant in a blood-thinning drug imported from China that sickened hundreds of frail patients in the U.S. and is suspected in a number of deaths, federal officials said Wednesday. The substance mimics the real dr... Continued...

Monday, March 17, 2008

FDA to step up checks on Chinese food
FDA will create eight new positions at US diplomatic missions throughout China over the next 18 months, provided final approval comes from the authorities in Beijing. The staff, who will be based in the US Embassy in Beijing and the US Consulates General in Shanghai and Guangzhou, will work alon... Continued...

Friday, March 14, 2008

CHINA: Faced With Olympian Water Shortages
BEIJING, Mar 14 (IPS) - Holding the Summer Olympic Games in one of the world’s driest cities poses a tough challenge for the hosts in Beijing though they have been working assiduously to ensure adequate water supplies during the events in August. However, elaborate schemes for water diversion fro... Continued...

Monday, March 10, 2008

HK CityU, UNCTAD launch joint int'l dispute settlement program
HONG KONG, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The School of Law of City University of Hong Kong has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD) here Monday on enhancing capacity-building on international dispute settlement. Under the memorandu... Continued...

Friday, March 7, 2008

Chinese study questions water investments by foreigners
BEIJING — A Chinese government study on foreign investment in its water industry says that some foreign companies get too much, for much too long, and sometimes promise more than is delivered or even needed, said a February 19 news summary on the Web site of the American Chamber of Commerce of the P... Continued...

South China's Guangxi to replace petrol, diesel oil with bio-ethanol in April
South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will replace gasoline and diesel oil with bio-ethanol fuel at all petrol stations starting in April, a top regional official said here during the parliamentary session. Eight other Chinese provinces and regions have promoted ethanolfuel but Guangxi ... Continued...

Friday, February 29, 2008

China doubles drinking water shortage statistics in less than a week
BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of Chinese officially suffering drinking water shortages has more than doubled in less than a week after the government revised its statistics. The State Flood and Drought Relief Headquarters on Friday released new figures showing 5.9 million people wit... Continued...

China: Dumplings poisoning is "sabotage"
China's police and the national quality watchdog says the poisoning incident in Japan involving imported Chinese dumplings is a special case of sabotage and it's unlikely to have taken place in China. China's food safety watchdog said at a press conference that the Chinese government has been att... Continued...

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Olympics water diversion threatens millions
The diversion of water to Beijing for the Olympics and for big hydropower projects threatens the lives of millions of peasant farmers in China’s north-western provinces, according to a senior Chinese government official. In an interview with the Financial Times, An Qiyuan, a member and former cha... Continued...