Topic: East Asia

Court rules against defendant in China's first HIV employment discrimination caseA Chinese court ruled Friday against the defendant in the country's first lawsuit over employment discrimination against people who are HIV-positive, the man's lawyer said.The defendant, identified only by the nickname "Little ...
China AIDS group says it is forced to shut down after pressure from authoritiesA group founded by well-known imprisoned Chinese activist Hu Jia to work with AIDS patients and orphans said Thursday it is closing down after increasing pressure from tax authorities.Beijing ...

How sex can kill you

"Sex could kill you. " ~ Dr. Cameron from the TV series, "House. " Maybe you never thought about sex in quite the way Dr. Cameron describes it, yet what the TV character says is accurate. ? The former chief medical examiner ...
Plumbago zeylanica (White Leadwort and Chitrak 4) native South Eastern Asia (and India 2) medicinal ornament evergreen shrub 1 .This ornamental plant is one of ten to twenty species of Plumbago flowering plants. Plumbago zeylanica grows health in full to partial shade, ...
AIDS is acquired immune deficiency syndrome, human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infected immune cells, which can cause immunodeficiency in acquired immune deficiency and destroy the immune system. During this time, but it looks very healthy looking, while repeating the growth of HIV ...

China court hears first HIV discrimination suit

A Chinese court on Wednesday heard the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in the nation's first such discrimination case, his lawyer said.The plaintiff, who has only been identified by his alias Xiao ...
A Chinese court was Wednesday to begin hearing the case of a man who alleges he was denied a job because he is HIV-positive, in what state media has said is the nation's first such discrimination case.The plaintiff, who has only been ...
A Report from the United Nations settlements program, UN-habitat, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya, they found that urban slums were growing faster than expected, and that the balance of global was shifting rapidly from countryside to the big cities. A United ...

A fight to the death---Part 1

Dr Gui Xi'en, 72, sits on the cramped back seat with a satchel on his shoulder and suitcase on his lap.He is on his way to Shangcai, an AIDS-ravaged county in central China's Henan province.As the cab approaches the county seat, Gui ...

Oct 6, 2010

Daily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world. Stephen Mosher was in China in 1980 when the government handed down the original one-child policy. ASSIST News Service reports that more than 1 million people in India living with ...