Topic: China Daily Information Company

Food safety a permanent mission

There are two main reasons why food safety scandals occur so frequently. . . First, producers are too obsessed with profit to care for people's...
Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars, who are destroying crops and upsetting the ecological balance, state media said on Friday.Wild boar numbers have risen to an estimated 150,000 in Zhejiang province,
Cellphone customers in China must provide identification from Wednesday to purchase a new number, state media said -- the latest step by Beijing to tighten curbs over the world's largest mobile market.The new regulations also apply to foreigners and those

Critics put on mute as China tightens mobile phone rules

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese mobile telephone users must register their personal details to buy phone numbers under a rule that comes into force from Wednesday, in what the government calls an attack on spam but some see as a blow to privacy.The ...

Two dead, 90 missing in China mudslides

Devastating mudslides in China's Yunnan province have claimed their first two victims and left 90 others missing, as experts in other parts of the country warn of more disasters to come, state media said Thursday.Torrents of mud slammed into homes ...

Beijing resumes radio exercise sessions

Thousands of workers across Beijing have started exercising twice a day to music on the radio, as the capital resumes mandatory calisthenics after a three-year break, state media said Wednesday.The radio exercise sessions resumed Monday and authorities ho

China to check tainted milk powder reports

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese food safety officials are investigating reports that hormone-tainted milk powder has caused baby girls to show signs of premature sexual development, a Health Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.Deng Haihua said his ministry too

China milk powder blamed for 'baby breasts'

Parents and doctors in central China fear that hormones in milk powder they fed their infant daughters have led the babies to prematurely develop breasts, state media reported Monday.Medical tests indicated the levels of hormones in three girls, ranging i

Rescuers hunt for survivors of China mudslides

Soldiers and rescuers battled Monday through an avalanche of sludge and debris as they raced to find survivors of mudslides that killed at least 127 people and left 1,300 missing in northwest China.At least one village was entirely engulfed by ...
China's film and TV regulator late Tuesday praised the growth of an iPhone application from state broadcaster CCTV as the country looks for new ...