China drafts tough food safety law The Washington Times | BEIJING (AP) - China's proposed food safety law, which promises tough penalties including life imprisonment for makers of dangerous food products, is a good first step, industry officials and analysts said yesterday. | A draft version of the law, released this week, is aimed at raising standards f...
No reason to deny Tibet reforms and rule of law China Daily By Shen Dingli (China Daily) | Updated: 2008-05-13 08:00 | I had the pleasure of visiting Tibet last month. What I saw and heard there has convinced me that the recent attacks on China by some Western media outlets over the issue of Tibet are serious...
St. Mary's names Cantu the new law school dean The Business Review | St. Mary's University has a new permanent dean of the law school. | Longtime faculty member and interim dean Charles Cantu was chosen as the new dean. | Cantu has proven that he has what it takes to effectively lead the law school, says Preside...
Chinese factories, flouting labor laws, hire children from poor, distant villages International Herald Tribune | : The mud and brick schoolhouses in the lush mountain villages of this remote part of southwestern China are dark and barebones in the best of times. These days, they also lack students. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Du Bin for The New ...
Law to create maximum damage Hong Kong Standard With Hong Kong's resources, you wouldn't think we would ever entertain reckless legislation, but it's continually part of our political culture. | //--> Nicole Idanna Alpert | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 | ADVERTISEMENT | With Hong Kong's resources, you wo...
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China drafts tough food safety law The Washington Times | BEIJING (AP) - China's proposed food safety law, which promises tough penalties including life imprisonment for makers of dangerous food products, is a good first step, industry ...
True Buddhists can't be proud of Dalai's record China Daily By Amdo bkraces (China Daily) | Updated: 2008-04-23 07:26 | An ancient Chinese saying has it that few people live to their 70s (in those times). If I remember correctly, the Dalai ...
Letters: Sustainable agriculture The Independent | Sir: As an (organic) beef farmer, I was obviously intrigued by the Big Question concerning possible changes in our diet to resolve the global food crisis (16 April). | It was dis...
China drafts food safety law that boosts fines, could imprison offenders for life AOL BEIJING (AP) - China's proposed food safety law, which promises tough penalties including possible life imprisonment for makers of dangerous food products, is a good first step, industry officials and analysts said Tuesday. | A draft version of the l...
New Law Would Recreate Iraqi Oil Company The Examiner BAGHDAD (Map, News) - A parliamentary committee is working on a pair of oil-related draft bills, one to re-establish the state-run oil company and another to fight oil smuggling, a senior lawmaker said Saturday. | Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani, deputy chairm...
Lax driving laws contributed to Urbana tragedy The Columbus Dispatch I just finished reading the absolutely heartbreaking article about the Chinese students who were killed last March in Urbana in a nine-car pileup caused by Jason Skaggs, a man who killed two people while driving recklessly back in 1994 (" 'Didn't any...
Some good sense on food crisis The Statesman Finally, a voice from the UN is saying something sensible about the world food crisis. Mr John Holmes, the UN’s humanitarian aid chief, is asking UN agencies to cool some of their dire rhetoric about the impact of high food prices. By the yardstick of the last big food crisis in 1974 that had US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger running to an emer...
Isolating Burma doesn't help The Australian | THE devastating natural disasters in Burma and China illustrate the difference between having a competent government and an incompetent one. | The Burmese military, unlike the Chinese, has done little to help its people, of whom more than 100,000 are already dead. The Burmese Government's reluctance to allow foreign aid in will condemn many more ...
