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Political News - ChinaPeople's Daily Goes TabloidGood to see that western tabloid newspaper values have taken over the English language site of the People's Daily. Normally the site is a very staid affair with the most read list headed by such stories as: World's longest sea bridge to open in east China . But for just a little while this morning a story featuring this picture found its way to the top:
The contestants for the upcoming Miss Philippines Earth 2008 pageant, it was recorded by the Chinese Government Xinhua newsagency, hold signs encouraging motorists to cut emissions as they are presented to the media at a hotel in Manila April 29, 2008. Even though it is hard to get more serious than that environmentally correct message, the pageant did not stay on the list for long. Within hours that bridge had claimed top position. more A Complacent AQISWednesday, December 26, 2007 - The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported today that Chinese lawmakers are considering a law to ensure food safety and prevent food-born diseases amid increasing concern over food safety. The draft law on food safety, said Xinhua, was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), or China 's top legislature, for the first reading on Wednesday. The action by the Chinese Government follows a spate of recent incidents where food exported from China has been found to be contaminated. The latest of these, involving sea food was reported in The Owl newsletter on 20 December under the heading A Little DDT with the Christmas Prawn Cocktail. morer A Little DDT with the Christmas Prawn CocktailTuesday, December 18, 2007 - In Canada this month a Chinese sea food company was in strife after a cancer-causing antibiotic was detected in a shipment of frozen shrimp. That in itself was not such a great surprise because there have been many questions recently in many parts of the world about the quality of Chinese products. What made the case of Zhanjiang Guolian Aquatic Products Corp different was that it alone among Chinese seafood exporters was exempted from automatic U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety inspections. more None so Deaf .Monday, 27 August 2007 - I did not really want to hear what Paul Keating was saying during a television interview last week about how he experienced the seemingly irrational views of Japanese and Chinese leaders when he was chatting informally with them as our Prime Minister. The distrust between the two nations that Mr Keating detected from his talks just seemed too incredible to take seriously. Surely Paul was taking an egg-beater to some meaningless asides that were well short of meriting the concern he was showing about future conflict in north Asia. more
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