Activist Zhu Yufu Arrested For Trying to Leave China
Because the Guangxi police seized Zhu’s cell phone and has not yet returned it to him, it has caused significant distress to his life. He is not able to pay for the utilities for which he has received bills, and the resulting late fees or disconnection of water and electricity can put a seventy-something-year-old man, deprived of his pension benefits, in a difficult situation.
Chinese Citizens Needing Urgent Medical Care Are Neglected During Strict Lockdown
In the document, titled “Xingtai City’s Hotline Handling Records,” a Jan. 16 log indicated that a resident had to call the mayor’s hotline in the evening because an elderly resident had a fever and all attempts to get treatment had failed. The patient passed away during that call.
In China, Villagers Are Selling Air in Plastic Bags
Frank Fang | Epoch Times Clean air has become a rare commodity in China, and villagers in China’s southern province of Guangdong are capitalizing on it. With slogans such as “Buying Air Is Buying Health,” “Air Without Any Industrial Pollution,” “Air With the Highest Amount of Anions in Guangdong ,” and “Air from 1,400 Meters Above […]
Thousands Protest High Cancer Rates Linked to Pollution in China's Tianjin
<!–[CDATA[Yang Fan | Radio Free ASia Thousands of people have taken to the streets in a township near the northern Chinese city of Tianjin in recent days in protest at alleged carcinogenic pollution from a nearby iron and steel plant, residents said on Wednesday. The protests continued on Wednesday amid a strong security presence outside […]
China’s Disastrous Pollution Problem Is a Lesson for All
<!–[CDATA[David Suzuki Beijing’s 21-million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead, and other contaminants, mainly caused by factories and coal burning. Schools and workplaces regularly shut down when pollution exceeds hazardous levels. People have exchanged paper and cotton masks for more elaborate, filtered respirators. Cancer has become […]
Pollution Makes a Village of Widows in China
<![CDATA[Lu Chen | Epoch Times A community in south-central China’s Hunan Province has become known as the “widow village,” because of the large number of men who have died there from cancer. Locals say the heavy pollution they endure is the cause. The Qingxia community is located in a suburb of Zhuzhou City, an old […]
China Soars to Top of World Cancer Report
The annually report from the WHO (World Health Organization) quotes its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)– From a total of 8.2 million deaths from cancer in the world in 2012, around 2.2 million or 26.9 percent were in China.