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...China's chief trade negotiator. She was appointed Health Minister during the SARS crisis last year, replacing Zhang Wenkang, who for weeks had steadfastly denied that there was an epidemic. Wu was committed to transparency. "She told me things she didn't have to because she values openness," says Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization's China representative. Wu has turned her attention to a far deadlier plague. The Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound...
When Angela Ramsay and Henk Tjalsma decided to get married, they had to make a Solomonic choice. She's British and he's Dutch, so a wedding on either's home turf would have meant an overseas trip for the other's family. So they opted for Tuscany, inviting only their closest relatives. "We'd been on holiday there and just fell in love with it," says Ramsay. Some Internet research led the couple to settle on a ceremony in the town of Certaldo, and to entrust the planning to WeddingItaly by Punto di Fuga, an Udine-based company that...
China claims the virus that causes SARS has infected 1,530 of its citizens and killed 67, but WHO officials suspect the numbers are higher. "We have clearly told the government the international community doesn't trust your figures," said Henk Bekedam, the WHO representative to China. "Now it's time to start building some trust...
...international outrage over such dissembling intensified, China's top leaders were forced to address this health and public-relations fiasco late last week. "We have clearly told the government the international community doesn't trust your figures," says Henk Bekedam, China representative for the WHO, which could have added Beijing to its travel-advisory list, alongside Guangdong province and Hong Kong. The WHO then estimated the capital's SARS patients at 100 to 200?five times more than the government acknowledged?based on hospital visits and other data. On Friday, state media reported that China's new President, Hu Jintao...
...coast instead of in a small bay in which it could have been contained," he says. ABS, says Wade, has reviewed its records on the Prestige and "can find nothing in the paper trail that would raise any cause for concern." The Rotterdam Harbor Authority's chief inspector, Henk ten Hoope, agrees. In a September 1999 inspection, he found "nothing wrong with the ship's structure," he says. "As far as we were concerned, it was perfectly seaworthy." Shipping sources in Athens - base of the Prestige's registered owners, Mare Shipping Inc., and manager, Universe Maritime Ltd. - call the vessel...