75 per cent city workers in China suffer from poor health
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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Nearly 100 people, apparently  including many children, have been taken to hospital with  encephalitis B in southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province, Xinhua  news agency reported on Saturday.
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Breast cancer has risen sharply in  China's capital and its top financial centre during the last  decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased  stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday.
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have arrested or reprimanded more than 750 officials in recent months in connection with billions of dollars in financial irregularities ranging from unpaid taxes to embezzlement, according to a report made public yesterday.
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HIV carriers in China may have a chance to become civil servants under a new health standard for recruitment. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Health are now seeking
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Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
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An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent and many &quot;lost their heads&quot; when faced with difficult situations.
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China has sent a notice to the World  Health Organisation defending its food safety standards and  repeating what is now becoming a standard line that more than  99 percent of its food exports are up to standard.
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In central China, hundreds of adults and children have reportedly been kidnapped and forced to work under brutal conditions.
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AMERICANS have been pouring greater and greater portions of the their salaries into health care over the past few years. And what makes most employees sick is that they are getting less and less for their money.
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Poor-paying positions in health care and social services have driven recent growth in employment in the city.
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Businesses in China are having a hard time finding able-bodied workers and are having to pay the workers they can find more money.
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Imagine showing up to work one day and finding half your co-workers out sick. Imagine the business world in slow motion, healthy workers overburdened by taking on the jobs of the
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Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported.
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About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.
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Colliery accidents in China killed  5,286 miners in the first 11 months of the year, but the  government cast the figure in a positive light, saying it was  at an all-time low relative to production.