Topic: China
This section offers news briefs in China. China's first regional airliner ARJ21-700 Xiangfeng finished its first flight in Shanghai in on November 28, 2008. A ceremony was held by Pepsi Co. Ltd. to introduce Doritos in China.
China, India and other fast-growing economies should start to contribute to the world's war chest to fight AIDS, the head of the Global Fund said on Friday as the 18th world AIDS conference wound down.Speaking amid deepening concern about donations from western ...
A migrant worker seriously injured in a wage dispute in China said Friday that a hospital had refused to treat her after doctors found out she was HIV-positive.Li Na, 37, told AFP she was beaten up Monday when she and fellow workers ...
Wan Yanhai, China's top AIDS activist, said he suffered years of harassment from authorities which eventually came to a head earlier this year when he fled to the United States with his family.He is just one of the nation's AIDS campaigners who ...
OB), a China manufacturer of peptide-based and small molecule drugs, received SFDA manufacturing approval for Entecavir, an oral treatment for hepatitis B. Entecavir inhibits reverse transcription, DNA replication and transcription in the viral replication process. Before 2010, only Bristol-Myers Squibb's version of ...
Rampant prostitution which has accompanied China's rapid economic growth is fuelling a 30 percent increase in syphilis infections each year, state media reported on Saturday.Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but has increased 10-fold over the past decade ...
China's top AIDS activist, whose group helped uncover a major tainted blood-selling scandal in the 1990s, said Tuesday he had fled with his family to the United States because he feared for his safety.Wan Yanhai, 46, said he, his wife and his ...
China AIDS activist leaves for US with family after government harassment intensifiedA prominent Chinese AIDS activist said Monday he has left China for the United States with his wife and 4-year-old daughter after authorities increasingly harassed him and his organization.Wan Yanhai, founder ...
Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say.The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China ...
One child was born with syphilis every hour in China in 2008, researchers said Thursday, as new money from the country's growing economy fuels the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease.Syphilis was almost wiped out in China 50 years ago, but it ...