China steps up safety requirements for dairy firms

Carole Carson: The Skinny on Fitness Trends in 2011: Strategies for Tackling Obesity
What's your reason for getting fit and dropping a few pounds? Like Ashton Kutcher, are you worried about a "massive world-crushing event" where only the fittest survive? Or are your concerns more immediate, such as an oversized number on the scale and a thinning wallet? Nearly 75 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2019. That's the projection of Economists in a report, "Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit Not Fat," issued by the Paris-based 33-member Organisation of E...

Battery Factory Sickens 24 Children In China
Twenty-four Children have been hospitalized with lead poisoning caused by an illegal battery factory in their east China village, state media said Thursday, in the latest in a string of battery-related poisonings in recent years. The official Xinhua News Agency said local authorities shut down the Borui Battery Co. Ltd. and another battery factory it did not name in Anhui province's Huaining county after tests found that at least 200 local Children had elevated lead levels, with 24 between the a...

China: Rare tiger kills tour bus driver
A RARE Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour Bus Driver in northern China while the man's horrified passengers watched. The tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest after he got out to check on his bus, which was stuck in the snow at the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said. The bus was full of tourists visiting the centre, and Mr Jin broke safety guidelines by leaving the vehic...

Siberian tiger attacks, kills man in north China
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a driver as he was checking his tour bus that was trapped in the snow. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said the tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest Monday at the world’s largest Siberian tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang. The report cited a spokesman at the base, which has about 1,000 Siberian tigers. Siberian tigers are one of the world’s ...

Factory poisons Chinese schoolkids
Twenty-four school Children in eastern China have been taken to Hospital with suspected lead poisoning from nearby battery factories. The official Xinhua news agency said that at least 200 Children in the area had elevated lead levels. It said the authorities had shut two battery factories in Huaning county in the eastern province of Anhui. China is the largest producer and consumer of lead for batteries, cars and electric bikes. The Children sent to Hospital were aged between nine months ...

Make Restaurant Faves at Home, and Healthier
Like this Story? Share it: Searching for a new dish? Get cooking with recipes presented on "The Early Show"! (CBS) You can make dishes you love when you eat out - in - at home, that is - and make them much healthier and relatively simply. As "The Early Show" continued its weeklong "Lose It Early" series on Wednesday, registered dietician Cynthia Sass showed the way. Popular restaurant chains like Applebee's, Outback, Olive Garden and Ruby Tuesday's have delicious food that people crave, but it...

Report: City Supermarkets May Be Ripping You Off
NEW YORK (WCBS 880/1010 WINS) - If you shop in a city Supermarket, you may be getting ripped off on how much you pay for your groceries. Consumer Affairs says last time they performed their inspections of overpriced, improperly taxed or inaccurate scanners, about half of the supermarkets flunked. WCBS Reporter Rich Lamb says these failures are despite stepped up inspections in the latest sweep. During the latest round of inspections, two out of three supermarkets failed. WCBS 880 Reporter ...

Chinese children poisoned by lead
Dozens of schoolchildren in eastern China have been hospitalised with suspected lead poisoning from nearby battery factories. The official Xinhua news agency said that at least 200 Children in the area had elevated lead levels. It said the authorities had shut two battery factories in Huaning county in the eastern province of Anhui. China is the largest producer and consumer of lead for batteries, cars and electric bikes. The Children sent to Hospital were aged between nine and 16 years old. Th...

China smoking problem worsening
BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Health experts, noting a worsening smoking problem in China, Thursday raised their estimates of tobacco-related Deaths to 3.5 million annually by 2030. The new estimate -- provided to the state-run Xinhua news agency by Sarah England with the China office of the World Health Organization -- was sharply higher than the previous estimate of 3 million Deaths by 2050, pointing to the spreading smoking epidemic. The report was issued to review China's tobacco control situatio...

Siberian tiger attacks, kills bus driver in China
BEIJING - A rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour Bus Driver in northern China while the man's horrified passengers watched, Chinese Media reported. The tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest after he got out to check on his bus, which was stuck in the snow at the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The bus was full of tourists visiting the breeding center, and Jin ...

Officer killed while trying to defuse bomb
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- An Explosive Device went off Tuesday in Kabul while an Afghan Police Officer tried to defuse it, killing him and injuring three other people, officials said. "The Explosive Device was planted in a bag when the shopkeepers discovered it and informed police," an Interior Ministry official was quoted as telling Xinhua news agency. "Bomb disposal team came to the site and began defusing but suddenly it exploded, killing one Police Officer on the spot and injuring ...

China's 2010 GDP growth likely 10 percent
BEIJING, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- China expects to register a double digit annual Economic Growth rate in 2010, the country's Central Bank Governor said. Zhou Xiaochuan, in a Speech carried on the Web site of the People's Bank of China, said the country's economy had returned to normal and that the 2010 Economic Growth was estimated to reach about 10 percent, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Zhou said the government would promote a market-oriented reform of the Interest Rate regime in a gradual...

Freezing weather leads to south China evacuations
Beijing - Freezing temperatures have forced the Evacuation of nearly 60,000 people from their homes and caused more than $200 million in economic losses in southern China, the government said Wednesday. Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 1,200 homes and forced the Evacuation of 58,000 people across the southern regions of Jiangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou, the Ministry of Civil Affairs reported. Freezing weather has also damaged nearly 300,000 acres of crops, inc...

Over 200 Chinese children poisoned by lead
BEIJING - More than 200 Chinese Children have been poisoned by lead from battery plants located too close to houses in the east of the country, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a string of heavy metal Pollution cases. After tests last month showed three Children in Gaohe in Anhui province had elevated levels of lead in their blood, 280 others were subsequently checked, more than 200 of whom were found to have been poisoned, Xinhua news agency said. Authorities have now closed both b...

More than 200 Chinese children poisoned by lead
Beijing | Thu Jan 6, 2011 3:53am EST Beijing (Reuters) - More than 200 Chinese Children have been poisoned by lead from battery plants located too close to houses in the east of the country, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a string of heavy metal Pollution cases. After tests last month showed three Children in Gaohe in Anhui province had elevated levels of lead in their blood, 280 others were subsequently checked, more than 200 of whom were found to have been poisoned, Xinhua news...

Tiger kills bus driver as horrified passengers watch...
BEIJING - A rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour Bus Driver in northern China while the man's horrified passengers watched, Chinese Media reported. The tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest after he got out to check on his bus, which was stuck in the snow at the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The bus was full of tourists visiting the breeding center, and Jin ...

More than 20,000 Evacuated from Homes in Southern China Due to Freezing Temperatures
© unknown Freezing temperatures have forced the Evacuation of more than 20,000 people from their homes in southern China, as the region braces for more temperature drops in the coming days. Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 200 homes and forced the Evacuation of 22,800 people across the southern province of Guizhou, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday. Thousands of cars were stranded and some ice-covered roads were closed, the report said. "People, es...

Freezing weather leads to south China evacuations
BEIJING - Freezing temperatures have forced the Evacuation of more than 20,000 people from their homes in southern China, as the region braces for more temperature drops in the coming days. Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 200 homes and forced the Evacuation of 22,800 people across the southern province of Guizhou, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday. Thousands of cars were stranded and some ice-covered roads were closed, the report said. "People, espec...

Freezing weather leads to south China evacuations
Source: AP Beijing — Freezing temperatures have forced the Evacuation of more than 20,000 people from their homes in southern China, as the region braces for more temperature drops in the coming days. Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 200 homes and forced the Evacuation of 22,800 people across the southern province of Guizhou, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday. Thousands of cars were stranded and some ice-covered roads were closed, the report said. "People, ...

Rare Siberian Tiger Kills Bus Driver in China
Like this Story? Share it: (AP) Beijing - A rare Siberian tiger attacked and killed a tour Bus Driver in northern China while the man's horrified passengers watched, Chinese Media reported. The tiger pounced on driver Jin Shijun and dragged him into the forest after he got out to check on his bus, which was stuck in the snow at Hengdao Hezi Tiger Breeding Center, the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The...

Xinhua Sports & Entertainment Limited Announces ADS Ratio Change
XSEL is a leading sports and entertainment media company in China. Catering to a vast audience of young and upwardly mobile consumers, XSEL is well-positioned in China with its unique content and access.  Through its key international partnerships, XSEL is able to offer its target audience the content they demand - premium sports and quality entertainment. Through its Chinese partnerships, XSEL is able to deliver this content across a broad range of platforms, including television, th...

Freezing weather leads to south China evacuations
BEIJING -- Freezing temperatures have forced the Evacuation of more than 20,000 people from their homes in southern China, as the region braces for more temperature drops in the coming days. Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 200 homes and forced the Evacuation of 22,800 people across the southern province of Guizhou, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday. Thousands of cars were stranded and some ice-covered roads were closed, the report said. "People, especiall...

New York State Agriculture Department Dismisses Its Kosher Law Enforcement Inspectors
New York state, which represents the largest Kosher market outside of Israel, announced in a January 3 statement that its 85 Food Safety inspectors will assume the responsibilities of the Division of Kosher Law Enforcement. The statement came two days after the 11-employee Kosher law enforcement division was whittled down to just its director, Rabbi Luzer Weiss. The Department of Agriculture and Markets, which oversees the division, says that the layoffs will save the state nearly $1 million t...

Obama signs bill to improve nation's food safety
WASHINGTON -- Foreshadowing the coming power struggles between the White House and a more Republican Congress, President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation's Food Safety system as some lawmakers complained that it's too expensive and threatened its funding. The first major overhaul of the Food Safety system since the 1930s, the law emphasizes prevention to help stop deadly outbreaks of foodborne illness before they occur, instead of reacting after consumers bec...

Funding uncertain for food safety overhaul
By Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON | Tue Jan 4, 2011 2:18pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before President Barack Obama signed Food Safety Legislation, congressional Republicans were promising a fight over funding it. Obama was scheduled to sign the bill on Tuesday. It allows the Food and Drug Administration to increase inspections of food producers and gives it more enforcement authority. The legislation follows a series of widespread outbreaks of foodborne illness and food Product Recalls. He...