Food safety scandals have become so common in China that people are losing confidence in what they eat. The government has consistently emphasised the need for better regulation of the food industry, and it’s established an inter-ministerial committee under the State Council to pursue that goal. But so far little progress has been achieved.
The fund will develop agricultural projects in the two countries and set up a free-trade zone between their key farming belts.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is an imperfect symbol of the wartime past and an uncertain one for Russia’s future.
Chinese immigrants in South Africa have not been spared from the violent, anti-immigrant riots that have swept across Durban and Johannesburg, two of the country’s largest cities. There have been reports of injuries along with at least 40 business that were ransacked and looted.
The work of award-winning journalist Suzanne Ma has appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Associated Press, Huffington Post, and Salon.
She has crisscrossed the globe, filing stories from cities across Europe, Canada, China, and the United States, where she was a reporter in New York City for the Associated Press and DNAinfo, a digital news start-up. A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Ma was awarded the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, which helped fund her fieldwork in China for her first book, Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant’s Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West.
Born in Toronto, Ma was raised by immigrant parents who insisted she attend Chinese school every Saturday morning. Her Chinese lessons continued in Beijing where studied abroad. His family’s hometown is also the hometown of the subject of Meet Me in Venice, and the town’s remarkable 300-year history of emigration inspired the book.
She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Workers are also making more, National Bureau of Statistics says, and they are finding work closer to their rural homes.
Some businesses are even enticed into hiring despite the slackening economic growth.
Safeguarding the environment lags China’s economic status—limited resources and severe pollution preventing sustainable growth.
On the morning of March 16, 48-year-old Huang Shunfang went to her local hospital located in Fanghu Township in the central Chinese province of Henan. Her doctor diagnosed her with gastritis, gave her a dose of antacids through an IV, and sent her on her way. Huang died suddenly that afternoon.
