Archive for April 7th, 2008

Temporary environmental controls to be in place during Games

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Beijing Municipal Government is going to unveil temporary environmental protection measures during the Beijing Olympic Games, in the near future, said Mr. Yu Xiaoxuan, Deputy Director of the Construction and Environment Department of the Ga ...

Concerts salute to Beijing Olympics kick off

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Concerts under the theme of "Perform in Harmonyâ??Salute to Beijing 2008 Olympic" kicked off in March in Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an. 4,000 young musicians from the U.S. and Canada will participate in this activity. The concerts will be hel ...

Video: Western media’s distorted reports torn apart by truth

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Some major western media have distorted their reports on the recent Lhasa riots misled audiences on the issue. Some of their methods of reporting on Tibet went against common journalistic values. Related Videos:

S. Korea confirms new case of H5N1 bird flu outbreak

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The South Korean government confirmed Monday that a virulent bird flu strain causing the death of ducks at a farm in the southwestern city of Jeongup was identified as H5N1 strain of avian influenza. The H5N1 strain of avian influen ...

Pig disease hits 4 Vietnamese provinces

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has recently stricken Vietnam's central Nghe An province, raising the total number of affected localities in the country to four. The disease has hit 208 pigs in Dien Chau distri ...

Inhabitants in Brazilian city mobilized to fight dengue

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Inhabitants of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, the second biggest city in Brazil, were mobilized Sunday to combat dengue which had already killed dozens of people this year. A total of 2,000 people from 72 communities too ...

Women 40 or older have multi contraception choices

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Women of 40 years old or older can choose pill, IUD, or nonsurgical method of tube-tying for their birth control, said a study in the New England Journal of Medicine Monday. Both the pill and IUD methods are safer than they used to ...

Therapy of cell grafts for Parkinson’s questioned

Monday, April 7th, 2008

New study has questioned therapies using stem cell transplants in the brains to treat patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The transplanted cells appear to have been attacked by the protein aggregates that cause tragic degenerati ...