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1. Suspected artificial eggs discovered in Macau
  Suspected fake eggs from Hubei have been found in Macau after reports of their discovery in Fujian this week.

2. Drug regulator:China stockpiles bird flu vaccine for po...
  China has built up stockpiles of domestically produced human bird flu vaccine in case of a possible epidemic, the nation's food and drug regulator said here Wednesday.

3. Mystery surrounds bird flu death
  A 19 year old woman died of bird flu, but no other trace of the dangerous virus was found yet.

4. Mental illness--over 100 million sufferers in China
  Approximately one out of 13 people in China suffers mental disorders, yet only a few of them are conscious of their problems, and even fewer have received any appropriate treatment...

5. Massive payouts for milk-powder victims
  Families of tainted milk-powder victims could receive up to 200,000 yuan (US$29,000) compensation from major dairy companies in the coming weeks, media reports said.

6. China to draw up blacklist of dangerous ingredients
  China is to publish a blacklist of food additives which make products taste better or appear nutritious but are damaging to health, state media said, as it struggles to restore fai...

7. China melamine death toll rises
  China has increased to six the estimated number of children who died from drinking dairy products contaminated with melamine.

8. China's rural migrants are new front in AIDS fight
  Chinese officials are concerned with the potential for AIDS to spread among the estimated 200 million rural migrants driving the country's rapid economic expansion.

9. Over 1,000 melamine babies still in China hospitals
  Over a thousand Chinese infants are still in hospital receiving treatment for kidney damage caused by tainted milk, China's Health Ministry said on Thursday, more than two months a...

10. Lawyers plan collective lawsuit over tainted milk
  Lawyers for dozens of families whose children were sickened by tainted milk decided Thursday to go ahead with a class-action lawsuit against a dairy, hoping to pressure Chinese aut...

11. China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report
  A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media repo...

12. China could view Web addiction as 'disorder': state media
  China could become the first country to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder amid growing concern over compulsive Web use by millions of Chinese, state media said on ...

13. Tainting of milk is open secret in China
  Before melamine-laced milk killed and sickened Chinese babies and led to recalls around the world, the routine spiking of milk with illicit substances was an open secret in China's...

14. Chemical concerns grow over China's livestock feed
  China's state-run press warned Friday a toxic chemical found in eggs and milk was likely being mixed into livestock feed, in the clearest official indication yet that other foods m...

15. Suspect eggs pulled off shelves in southern China
  Eggs suspected of being tainted with the industrial chemical melamine have been pulled from shelves of major retailers in Guangzhou city. The discovery of melamine in eggs has rais...

16. China faces crisis due to unhealthy lifestyles, report ...
  The report published in The Lancet medical journal is the latest to warn that the worsening diets and other unhealthy habits of increasingly wealthy Chinese threaten to trigger epi...

17. HIV-infected females see sharp increase to 35%
  Experts at the Tsinghua AIDS Conference announced on October 19, 2008 that the proportion of females infected with HIV on the Chinese mainland has increased by a factor of five, fr...

18. Japan finds melamine in China-made egg powder
  A Japanese company said the toxic chemical melamine was found in dried egg powder imported from China as a scandal over tainted milk that has sickened thousands of babies keeps gro...

19. China bans one brand of herbal drug after 3 deaths
  The Chinese government announced that it had banned the sale and use of one brand of a herbal medicine after three people injected with it died and three others fell seriously ill,...

20. Women worry, but many don't breast feed in China
  With one hand, Yang Aiping held her squirming 4-month-old son amid the crowd in the maternity hospital. With the other, she dug through her purse for the near-empty bag of milk pow...

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