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Sources: Agence France Presse; New York magazine; AP (2); New York Times; Xinhua...
...system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China's national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after...
Sources: Environmental Protection Agency; National Recycling Coalition; BBC; Oxfam; BBC; Xinhua News Agency...
...over a decade before his retirement in 2005. Through astute bureaucratic maneuvering, he managed to have the SFDA removed from the supervision of the Ministry of Health in 2003, after which it became a powerful agency in its own right-leaving it effectively under his sole control. According to Xinhua, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said Zheng "sought benefits" for eight pharmaceutical companies by approving their drugs and medical devices. His actions "greatly undermined the integrity and the efficiency of China's drug monitoring and supervision, endangered public life and health and had a very negative social...
...efforts to rein in local authorities have been not only ignored but also actively blocked. Last October Beijing announced that it was delaying until 2010 a plan that would have forced the closure of thousands of small mines, which account for the majority of accidents. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the plan foundered because of opposition from local governments, which see mines as their "major capital sources." That, said Xinhua, led "many local authorities to protect unsafe mines for financial gain...