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...sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order to film the effects of one of the mainland's biggest health scandals: the transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands of poor farmers who sold their blood to illegal blood merchants with dirty equipment. Even so, he was caught and run out of town four times...
...beneath the splintered wheelbarrow where his AIDS-stricken mother lies dying, her moans of pain mingling with his gurgling attempts at language. Such unexpected images are jarring in a country where censors aim never to show China's ugly side. Yet, even though "underground" films are banned on the mainland, they are being made. The state media is even unwittingly contributing to the growth of maverick documentaries. In recent years, unofficial Chinese films have been made about vagrant children, migrant workers, homosexuals and corrupt village officials. Many were produced by frustrated filmmakers like Chen, using technical savvy acquired while working...
...hardest-hit regions of Guangdong province and neighboring Hong Kong and airlines to cut flights to affected zones. Despite hope early last week that the virus might be burning out on its own, suspected new cases popped up in countries as disparate as Fiji, Israel and Brazil. Mainland China and Hong Kong each announced more deaths from the disease last week, bringing their death tolls to 49 and 20 respectively. In Canada, the most seriously affected nation outside of Asia, three more patients died, bringing the total there to seven. On Friday a 29-year-old woman became the sixth...
...Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, ended up directly infecting more than 90 people in the territory; in Vietnam, another individual was so contagious that he had passed the virus on to at least 30 health-care workers. Medical experts fear another such virus bomb could detonate somewhere in mainland China, especially since a lack of transparency has kept hospitals there in the dark about how to handle the disease. That danger is especially acute now, as many Chinese working in cities return to their home villages to celebrate the grave-sweeping holiday honoring their ancestors. "If only...
Should I cancel my next trip to Asia? If you can. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise that you postpone all elective travel to Hong Kong, mainland China, Hanoi, Vietnam and Singapore. The World Health Organization has issued a similar travel advisory asking people to steer clear of Guangdong province and Hong Kong. Toronto, however, should...