Communist Party official dies of excessive drinking in eastern China, the third case in a year A Communist Party official in China has ...
Nearly 1,000 children in central China have tested positive for lead poisoning in the latest environmental scandal to erupt in the nation's smelting ...
Lead poisoning sickens 121 children living near battery plant in eastern China Medical tests have shown at least 121 children living near a battery plant in eastern China are suffering from lead poisoning, the latest in a recent string of such cases ...
Car seats, backpacks, pet toys contaminated with lead, PVC, arsenic, other toxins Hundreds of common household products -- including children’s backpacks, car seats, and even pet products -- are tainted with lead, arsenic, and other toxins, according to test results released by ...
China detains 15 parents for unrest over lead poisoning, claims links to banned sect Police in central China detained 15 parents for a violent protest over factory pollution that left hundreds of local children with lead poisoning, and accused them of links ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's environmental protection minister has called for more effective measures to tackle heavy metal poisoning after a surge in reported cases of children being poisoned by lead, state media said on Thursday. Incidents of lead poisoning have dogged China's ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Yunnan province is investigating possible lead poisoning in its capital city of Kunming, while smelter officials in its top lead producing city, Gejiu, are worried the provincial government may close local smelters with half a million tonnes ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 200 children living beside an industrial park in southwest China have been found to have excessive lead in their blood, state media said on Monday, in the third such case reported in the last month. Health authorities ...
Parents in southwestern China are accusing a local industrial park of causing lead poisoning in their children, state media said Monday, in the latest in a slew of similar incidents to spark public ire. A hospital in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, ...
Two weeks ago, Xiao Fengying travelled seven hours by car with her two sick children aged six and 13 from their home in China's rural Hunan province to Changsha city for medical treatment. Both were suffering from suspected lead poisoning caused by ...
A villager walks past the closed Wugang Manganese Smelting Plant in Wenping township in Hunan province, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. Two environmental officials were under investigation Saturday after more than 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant in ...
Officials begin lead poisoning investigation after 1,300 children sickened in central China Health and environmental officials have been sent to central China to investigate who is responsible for pollution from a manganese processing plant that caused more than 1,300 children to become ...
