Cigarettes never scared Li Wenbin. But when he saw a pack of Triple-Fives from Thailand, the two-pack-a-dayer recoiled in disgust. A picture of blackened cancerous lungs appeared ominously over the words “Smoking Kills” on the imported packs.
Such graphic warnings remain absent from Chinese cigarette packs, despite the rising number of smokers in the country. This trend runs counter to a global drop-off in cigarette consumption and re ... Jump to full article >>
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Rescuers probed the rubble for sounds or movement Friday in a rush to find anyone buried alive more than 48 hours after an earthquake hit western China, killing at least 791 people. Many survivors shivered through a second night outdoors as they waited for tents to arrive in the remote, mountainous Tibetan area.
People with broken arms or legs cried in pain as medical teams could offer little more than injections. A doctor at the Qinghai provinci ... Jump to full article >>
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China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for decline, and mistaken its own mercantilist bubble for ascendancy. There are echoes of Anglo-German spats before the First World War, when Wilhelmine Berlin so badly misjudged the strategic balance of power and over-played its hand.
Within a month the US Treasury must rule whether China is a “currency manipulator& ... Jump to full article >>
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China executed two people and imprisoned others as a warning not to endanger the public safety by producing harmful exports. On November 24, a dairy farmer and a milk salesman were put to death in the 2008 scheme to water down infant formula that left at least six children dead and sickened more than 300,000. In a move to reassure the world that China will protect its exports from unethical producers, those responsible were severely punished. New ... Jump to full article >>
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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) — China seized nearly 2.4 billion counterfeit cigarettes in the first six months of this year nationwide, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) said here Friday.
Law enforcement agencies raided 61 large counterfeit cigarette warehouses, rounded up 3,070 people in connection with the counterfeit brands and prosecuted 1,535 of them, said STMA.
The agencies also resolved 2,693 cases, each involving a value ... Jump to full article >>
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Customs officers have seized more than eight million cigarettes in an anti-smuggling operation at Dublin Port, it emerged tonight.
The cigarettes were discovered in a container which arrived from China last Friday, which was kept under surveillance until it was moved the following day.
The container was stopped as it was travelled northbound on the M1, near Swords, and brought back to the port.
The truck and trailer were seized and a private resi ... Jump to full article >>
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