Two young girls died and another 30 children were sickened, after eating snacks containing banned rodenticide at a kindergarten in rural southwest China.
16 infants are dead after receiving vaccines in China over the last month, but because of ties with authorities the vaccine companies needn’t worry about repercussions.
Chinese society thus is strictly divided into rural and urban by a system called hukou, or household registration, and it extends across generational lines.
Chinese human rights attorney Jiang Tianyong, who was arrested in February as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to nip a homegrown “Jasmine Revolution” in the bud, recently broke his silence about what went on while he was in custody.
In China, which accounts for 25 percent of all the world’s suicides, an average of 287,000 people—or one every 2 minutes—commit suicide every year, and 2,000,000 attempt suicide but are unsuccessful.