Articles tagged with "china"
China
By Larry Habegger | May 6th, 2003 |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to recommend deferring nonessential travel to Hong Kong, Beijing, and Guangdong and Shanxi provinces of China because of SARS. These are the only areas... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | April 23rd, 2003 | Add a Comment »
As the Chinese government acknowledges that the SARS outbreak was more extensive than originally reported, concerns are rising that the disease may become epidemic in rural China, where health care... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | April 15th, 2003 | Add a Comment »
Travel advisories about SARS from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have not changed materially in the past week, but new... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | April 9th, 2003 | Add a Comment »
Health Alert: Advice for travelers from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department has changed only slightly in the... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | April 2nd, 2003 | Add a Comment »
Health Alert: The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Asia continues to intensify, causing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to advise those planning nonessential travel to... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | March 11th, 2003 | Add a Comment »
As ChinaÂ’s legislature prepared to elect a new president and prime minister this week, security in Beijing was raised to a high level. Security forces and plainclothes officers were stationed... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | February 19th, 2003 | Add a Comment »
The U.S. Consulate-General in Guangzhou is keeping an eye on reports of a viral infection in the Guangdong area that authorities have described as atypical pneumonia. It is flu season... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | September 17th, 2002 | Add a Comment »
Internet cafes are tightly regulated and access to the Web is censored here, but recently the Chinese government blocked access to Google and AltaVista search engines, fearing that they represented... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | August 20th, 2002 | Add a Comment »
China’s annual flood season is one of the worst in memory, with some 100 million people affected by floods and more than 900 killed. The worst hit provinces are Hunan... [Read this entry]
China
By Larry Habegger | June 25th, 2002 | Add a Comment »
Organized crime and corruption are so endemic that most Chinese feel China is a dangerous place to live, but the country’s crime rate is among the lowest in the world.... [Read this entry]
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