Conversation
08.06.24
How Safe Is China’s Food in Light of the Fuel-Tanker Cooking-Oil Scandal?
Melamine-tainted milk, rat meat sold as lamb, recycled cooking oil sourced from restaurant waste or even sewers, rice containing poisonous heavy metals: food safety scandals were extraordinarily frequent in China in the first 15 years of the 21st...
Video
08.08.18
The Window
I have spent three years collecting accounts and examining how survivors and families have coped since that traumatic event. I document the lingering pain, to resist public forgetting and indifference. Hundreds of photographs bear witness to the...
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05.17.18Killing Spurs Didi, China’s Ride-Hailing Giant, to Revamp Its Service
New York Times
Didi Chuxing, China’s wildly popular ride-sharing service, said on Wednesday that it would overhaul its app and its safety and security practices, after reports that a passenger had been raped and killed by her driver.
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01.10.17How to Ride an Escalator: China Says You’re Doing It Wrong
Wall Street Journal
Experts have recently warned that the practice is a danger to public safety
Features
09.15.16
China’s Teflon Toxin Problem
from Intercept
Since the late 1970s, the chemical industry has been at the heart of China’s dazzling growth. And as regulations increase around the world, many toxic chemicals wind up coming to China just to die a slow death. Teflon—the slippery substance used in...
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08.11.16China Power Plant Blast Kills At Least 21
Reuters
Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China, and anger over lax standards is growing.
Features
07.01.16
The Rockets’ Red Glare
from Slate
The vast majority of the world’s fireworks come from China. And sometimes they explode early, with deadly consequences.
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06.23.16China Vows to Replace ‘Poisonous’ Running Tracks at Schools
New York Times
The Ministry of Education said it would inspect synthetic rubber tracks in schools across China during the summer break.
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11.27.15Beware of China's Safety Record
New York Times
Chinese people have paid heavily for a flawed system. Now that Chinese-style construction and management are going global, what price is the world prepared to pay?
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10.09.15Escalator Death in China Heightens Safety Concerns
New York Times
A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
Media
08.17.15
4 Questions Chinese Want Answered After Deadly Tianjin Blast
Around 11:30 p.m., Beijing time, on Wednesday, at least two fearsome blasts in quick succession rocked the large northeastern Chinese port city of Tianjin. Originating at or near a hazardous materials warehouse near the city’s downtown, the...
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05.25.15China Warned Over ‘Insane’ Plans for New Nuclear Power Plants
Guardian
He Zuoxiu, a leading scientist, says China is not investing enough in safety controls after the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Environment
05.08.15
It’s Time to Fix China’s Food Safety Conundrum
from chinadialogue
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...
Reports
03.02.15
China’s Long March To Safe Drinking Water
China Water Risk
China’s central government set ambitious goals to safeguard water quality in 2011, at the outset of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). Those goals targeted improvements from source-to-tap, earmarking a budget of nearly RMB 700 billion (U.S.$112...
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08.04.14Death Toll Rises to 75 in Chinese Factory Blast
Associated Press
The death toll in for an explosion at a Chinese auto parts factory has risen to 75 people, as investigators fault poor safety measures and news reports reveal that workers had long complained of dangerous levels of dust.
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08.03.14Death Toll Rises to 75 in Chinese Factory Blast
ABC
The death toll in for an explosion at a Chinese auto parts factory has risen to 75 people, as investigators fault poor safety measures and news reports reveal that workers had long complained of dangerous levels of dust at the facility.
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07.23.14Five Held in China Food Scandal Probe, Including Head of Shanghai Husi Food
Reuters
The five detained include the head of the company—Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd, a unit of U.S.-based OSI Group LLC—and the firm’s quality manager, the police said in an online statement. It gave no other details.
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06.06.13A Factory Burns in China
New Yorker
That a four-year-old factory in a fast-growing economy could be run in such a dangerous fashion is a story not of poverty but of legal disarray. Early on, Chinese were openly discussing corruption, safety standards, and the government’s...