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- Fire kills 8 in east China city
- China angered by Abe's remarks in US
- Wu Ying appeals conviction for fraud
- Sun shines on the Buddha
- 'Watch Brother' expelled from Party, going to court
- Singer's son detained in Beijing gang rape case
- Doctors with cancer blame X-ray machines
- China party sacks 'smiling official'
- Have You Heard…
- Chinese Plan to Kill Drug Lord With Drone Highlights Military Advances
- Locked iPhone Sales Challenged in Hong Kong
- UK, China central banks to discuss currency swap line
- Japan’s Abe to showcase alliance, get Obama to back Abenomics
- Russia, China oppose military intervention in North Korea
- China acknowledges 'cancer villages'
- Foxconn denies iPhone effect
- Taiwan technology giant Foxconn has slowed new hiring at its vast mainland factories.
- Bo on 'hunger strike twice'
- Principal held after female students molested
- Wuhan doctors on strike over X-ray radiation
| Fire kills 8 in east China city Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:21 PM PST A fire that broke out early this morning in Wenling City, east China's Zhejiang Province, has killed eight people before it was contained 4 hours later. The city's fire department said the fire, which occurred at 2:59 am, burnt three residential houses in Zeguo Township. An investigation is under way. |
| China angered by Abe's remarks in US Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:36 AM PST CHINA made strong representations to Japan yesterday over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's comments that characterized Beijing as having a "deeply ingrained" need to challenge neighbors over territory. "China is strongly dissatisfied with the Japanese leader's comments that distort facts, attack and defame China and stir up confrontations between the two countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily press briefing. In an interview with the Washington Post, Abe said China had a "deeply ingrained" need to spar with Japan and other Asian neighbors over territory because the ruling Communist Party was using the disputes to maintain strong domestic support. In Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Abe's China-related statement had been misquoted and that had led to misunderstandings. Abe began a visit to the United States on Thursday, the same day his comments were published in the Washington Post. Hong urged the Japanese government and leaders to take a correct view of China and its development, pursue positive policies with China, show sincerity through actions and make efforts to improve bilateral relations. Hong said that China's maritime activities were in accordance with domestic and international law. "Thus, navigational freedom and security in the East China Sea and South China Sea have never been affected." He said Japan intended to play up the "China threat," mislead world opinion and purposely create regional tensions. "Japan should do more to enhance bilateral trust in politics and security and work for regional peace and stability, rather than act contrarily," he said. Hong said China had never recognized and would never accept Japan's so-called "actual control" of the Diaoyu Islands. "Japan should face up to history and reality, immediately stop illegal activities on the seas near the Diaoyu Islands and make substantive efforts to properly deal with the current situation," Hong said. He said Japan was to blame for current difficulties in bilateral relations and urged it to reflect on past aggressions.
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| Wu Ying appeals conviction for fraud Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:35 AM PST WU Ying, once a highly successful businesswoman, has lodged an appeal against her conviction for fraud, her father said yesterday. Documents were mailed to the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, Wu Yongzheng told the Xinhua news agency. Wu Ying, 32, was found guilty of cheating investors out of 380 million yuan (US$60.2 million) between May 2005 and January 2007 in private lending scams. Last May, Wu was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in east China's Zhejiang Province. She was found to have raised 770 million yuan by promising high interest rates, and at the time of her arrest she still owed investors 380 million yuan. Wu said in her appeal that she invested most of the money in property and businesses which were operating well, yesterday's National Business Daily reported. She said there was no doubt she could repay investors. Wu also said the courts had previously undervalued her assets when they decided she was worth just 171.6 million yuan. She denied having illegally raised funds or lured others to lend her money. The practice of promising high interest rates to private creditors was widely accepted in Zhejiang, she said, adding: "I never cajoled anyone." In May, the Zhejiang Higher People's Court found that Wu had deliberately concealed her business profits. Wu denied this was the case and had sent related documents to the court. Wu's story, before her conviction, was one of rags to riches. Her formal education ended after primary school but she later built up a multimillion-dollar business in three years after starting with a single beauty salon. In 2006, Wu, former owner of Zhejiang-based Bense Holding Group, was the sixth richest woman on China's mainland with personal assets of 3.6 billion yuan. In December 2009, she was sentenced to death by the Jinhua Intermediate People's Court for fraud, and the Zhejiang provincial court upheld the verdict on January 18, 2012. On April 20, 2012, the Supreme People's Court sent the case back to the court for re-sentencing. Wu was granted the two-year reprieve. |
| Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:25 AM PST Lamas and local Tibetans pray in front of a huge thangka during a Sunning the Buddha ceremony at Langmu Monastery in northwest China's Gansu Province yesterday. About 20,000 people took part in the event, about half of them tourists and photographers from around the world. Featuring the Buddha, a thangka is an artwork combining painting and embroidery. Each lamasery has its own thangka and airs it on different days, though usually on the 13th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that once a thangka is unveiled for the ceremony rain will stop in the area. Another legend says that when the forehead of the Buddha is revealed as the thangka is unfolded, the first ray of sunlight will always shine on it. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Watch Brother' expelled from Party, going to court Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:23 AM PST A WORK safety official in northwest China's Shaanxi Province who was photographed smiling at the scene of a fatal bus crash last year has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and his case has been transferred to judicial authorities, local authorities said yesterday. Yang Dacai, former head of the provincial work safety administration, engaged in serious disciplinary violations and is suspected of committing crimes during his tenure, according to Shaanxi provincial disciplinary authorities. Yang first stirred up condemnation from netizens after he was photographed wearing a broad smile while surveying a road collision that left 36 people dead on August 26. Photos showed Yang wearing luxury wristwatches, earning him a nickname: "Watch Brother." Yang said he purchased the watches with his own salary, but Internet users argued that a public servant could not possibly afford costly watches. He was dismissed from his position on Shaanxi's Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, as well as head and CPC chief of the provincial work safety administration, in September.
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| Singer's son detained in Beijing gang rape case Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:22 AM PST THE 17-year-old son of a renowned Chinese military singer has been detained on suspicion of participating in a gang rape in Beijing only six months after he was released from a year's confinement for assault in a road-rage case, China News Service reported. Police in Beijing said yesterday that Li Guanfeng was detained on Thursday night for allegedly participating in the gang rape of a woman last Sunday. Li Guanfeng is the name adopted by Li Tianyi after he was released in September from a year in a youth reformation center after he and another young friend assaulted a couple after a fender-bender, according to China News Service. Li's father, Li Shuangjiang, 74, is a famous singer with the People's Liberation Army with a rank equivalent to major general. Police in Beijing's Haidian District said the rape victim told them that she was drinking with five people in a bar last Sunday. The men took her to a room, beat her and gang-raped her, China News Service said. Police said they detained the men in a parking lot in Chaoyang District. An adult found guilty of participating in gang rape can be imprisoned at least 10 years, according to the Chinese criminal law. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Doctors with cancer blame X-ray machines Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST SOME medical professionals in a hospital in central China said they went on strike after three doctors claimed lengthy exposure to X-rays without adequate protection triggered their cancers. Three female gynecologists in their 50s from Wuhan Union Hospital in Hubei Province were diagnosed this year with thyroid cancer, which can be caused by radiation poisoning. Their thyroids have been removed, and they will undergo radiotherapy, the Beijing Times reported yesterday. They blamed the hospital, citing haphazard supervision over the radiation machines and little concern for staff health, according to their statement, published on Monday. The statement said they always perform surgery in a fourth-floor operating room, with two X-ray machines just above them in two orthopedic operating rooms on the upper floor. The two operating rooms weren't radiation proof, they said. The hospital is missing necessary documents, such as an environmental evaluation report and health authority approval, they said. Also, the hospital never monitors the radiation, they claimed. At least four doctors at the hospital develop thyroid cancer every year, The Beijing News cited a doctor as saying. People exposed to high X-ray levels over time have a higher risk of leukemia and cancers of the thyroid, breast and lung. Their story has sparked deep concern among hospital staff, with some medical staffers who work in the two operating rooms walking off the job, forcing the hospital to suspend some surgical procedures, The Beijing News reported. Hospital officials denied the accusations, saying the hospital just passed three tests conducted by the Hubei Disease Prevention and Control Center between December and February. But they did not show any qualification reports or approvals, the newspaper reported. The provincial health bureau said an investigation showed no sign of a radioactivity problem in the operating rooms. The X-ray machines are also up to standard, it said. But China's famous "science cop," Fang Zhouzi, a self-proclaimed fighter against pseudoscience, didn't accept the assurances of officials. "Hospital insiders told me they had put away the radiation machines under lock and key before the authority came to start an inspection," he wrote. Neither the provincial health bureau nor the hospital has issued a response. |
| China party sacks 'smiling official' Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:53 AM PST A Chinese official who sparked outrage after being shown grinning at the scene of a fatal crash is expelled by the ruling party, state media say. |
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| Chinese Plan to Kill Drug Lord With Drone Highlights Military Advances Posted: 21 Feb 2013 12:57 PM PST  Source: New York Times By Jane Perlez | Photo: china.org BEIJING — China considered using a drone strike in a mountainous region of Southeast Asia to kill a Myanmar drug lord wanted in the murders of 13 Chinese sailors, but decided instead to capture him alive, according to an influential state-run newspaper. Liu Yuejin, the director of the Ministry of Public Security's antidrug bureau, told the newspaper in an article published online on Tuesday that the plan called for using a drone carrying explosives to bomb the outlaw's hide-out in the opium-growing area of Myanmar, in the Golden Triangle at the intersection of Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. China's law enforcement officials were under pressure from an outraged public to take action after 13 Chinese sailors on two cargo ships laden with narcotics were killed in October 2011 on the Mekong River. Photos of the dead sailors, their bodies gagged and blindfolded and some with head wounds suggesting execution-style killings, circulated on China's Internet. It was one of the most brutal assaults on Chinese citizens abroad in recent years. Naw Kham, a member of Myanmar's ethnic Shan minority and a major drug trafficker, was suspected in the murders. A manhunt by the Chinese police in the jungles of the Golden Triangle produced no results, and security officials turned to a drone strike as a possible solution. Dennis M. Gormley, an expert on unmanned aircraft at the University of Pittsburgh, said of the reported Chinese deliberations, "Separating fact from fiction here is difficult." But he added, "Given the gruesome nature of the 2011 killings and the Chinese public's outcry for action, it's not at all surprising to imagine China employing an armed drone over Myanmar's territory." Mr. Gormley said the decision not to carry out a drone strike might reflect a lack of confidence in untested Chinese craft, control systems or drone pilots. "I think China's still not ready for prime time using armed drones, but they surely will be with a few more years of determined practice," he said. "And they surely will have America's armed drone practice as a convenient cover for legitimating their own practice." China's global navigation system, Beidou, would have been used to guide the drones to the target, Mr. Liu said. China's goal is for the Beidou system to compete with the United States' Global Positioning System, Russia's Glonass and the European Union's Galileo, Chinese experts say. Mr. Liu's comments on the use of the Beidou system with the drones reflects the rapid advancement in that navigation system from its humble beginnings more than a decade ago. The experimental navigation system was started in 2000 and has since expanded to 16 navigation satellites over Asia and the Pacific Ocean, according to an article in Wednesday's China Daily, an English-language state-run newspaper. The Chinese military, particularly the navy, is now conducting patrols and training exercises using Beidou, the paper said. As an example, China Daily quoted the information chief at the headquarters of the North Sea Fleet, Lei Xiwei, as saying a fleet with the missile destroyer Qingdao, along with the missile frigates Yantai and Yancheng, entered the South China Sea on Feb. 1 using the Beidou navigation system to provide positioning, security and protection for the fleet. As China has been vastly improving its navigation system, it is also making fast progress with drones, and many manufacturers for the military have research centers devoted to unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report last year by the Defense Science Board of the Pentagon. Two Chinese drones, apparently modeled on the American Reaper and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, were unveiled at the Zhuhai air show in November. A larger drone Western experts say is akin to the American RQ-4 Global Hawk is also known to be in the Chinese arsenal. One of the Chinese drones, the CH-4, had a range of about 2,200 miles and was ideal for surveillance missions over islands in the East China Sea that are the subject of a dispute between China and Japan, an official with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said at the Zhuhai air show. China has acknowledged a pilot program that uses drones as part of its stepped-up surveillance of its coastal areas, as well as in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. The State Oceanic Administration has said that by 2015, it plans to use drones along China's coastline on a permanent basis and will establish monitoring bases in provinces along the coastline for drones. As for Naw Kham, the fugitive, he was captured by Laotian authorities at the Mekong River port of Mong Mo after a six-month hunt in the jungles of the Golden Triangle by the combined police forces of China, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. After his extradition to China, Naw Kham received a death sentence from a Chinese court in Yunnan Province and awaits execution. "We didn't use China's military, and we didn't harm a single foreign citizen," Mr. Liu bragged after the arrest in April 2012.   |
| Locked iPhone Sales Challenged in Hong Kong Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:20 AM PST  Source: Wall Street Journal By Te-Ping Chen and Jeffrey Ng HONG KONG—The battle over sales of locked Apple Inc. iPhones has reached Hong Kong after a local telecommunications company filed court documents this week seeking to contest the practice. Apple has come under heavy fire for its phone-locking policies in the U.S., where for years, the iPhones it sold were configured to operate only on the AT&T network. Most iPhones in the U.S. are still sold locked, limiting the ability of consumers to use the device with different carriers, though Apple now sells unlocked iPhones in the country for a premium over those packaged with a calling plan. On Sept. 28, shortly after PCCW discovered that the iPhone 5 wasn't functioning on its fourth-generation network, its unit, Hong Kong Telecommunications, filed a complaint with the city's telecommunications regulator. That effort hasn't yielded any success, prompting the operator to turn to the city's legal system instead. HKT is seeking a judicial review of the way in which the regulator has dealt with the case. The regulator declined to comment on the case, citing current litigation. If the court chooses to grant a judicial review, it would open the way to the city's first legal challenge of Apple's locking practices in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a vibrant and competitive telecommunications market, where certain consumer protections—such as the ability to easily transfer a number when switching carriers—have been defended by local regulations. Before the launch of the iPhone 5, most iPhones in Hong Kong were sold unlocked and freely able to access a 2G or 3G network according to the owner's preference. The iPhone 5, which went on sale in September, is compatible only with the fourth-generation networks of mobile providers SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., CSL Ltd. and Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. The documents filed by HKT argued that sales of locked iPhones were harming consumers who might not have been aware of their restrictions when purchasing or receiving them as gifts, only to later "find that they were having their choice of mobile service provider dictated (or limited) by Apple." HKT said that the lock on the phones can be disabled only by Apple, and that doing so would be easy. It said the company could unlock the iPhone 5 via a change in the settings of the phones' operating systems, which users could adopt through a software download. "There would be no need to recall the handsets or to incur high costs to make this change," HKT argued. Meanwhile, allowing more networks to use its handsets would in fact increase Apple's sales, it said. Apple declined to comment on HKT's complaints, as legal proceedings are pending.   |
| UK, China central banks to discuss currency swap line Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:23 AM PST  Source: Reuters (Reuters) – The Bank of England said on Friday it would discuss setting up a reciprocal three-year yuan-sterling swap line with the People's Bank of China to finance bilateral trade and investment. The latest step builds on the BoE's statement last month that it was ready "in principle" to adopt a currency swap line with its Chinese counterpart, as the yuan or the renminbi starts to emerge as a world reserve currency. The BoE said on Friday the arrangement would be used to finance trade and direct investment between the two countries and to support domestic financial stability if needed. "In the unlikely event that a generalized shortage of offshore renminbi liquidity emerges, the Bank (of England) will have the capability to provide renminbi liquidity to eligible institutions in the UK," BoE Governor Mervyn King said. This would be the latest in a string of bilateral currency agreements that China has signed in the past three years to promote use of the yuan in trade and investment. European and U.S. officials have been pressing China for years to do more to open up the yuan to market forces, saying its artificial weakness was one of the key imbalances of the global economy. Beijing is slowly delivering, although it still keeps a tight rein on gains for the currency for fear it will weaken its export-powerhouse economy, which has been the biggest engine of global growth for a decade. Britain, always anxious to bolster London's status as Europe's biggest financial centre, launched an offshore yuan currency and bond market to great fanfare last year, and a swap deal would cement its role as the leading centre in the Group of Seven industrialized nations for offshore yuan trade   |
| Japan’s Abe to showcase alliance, get Obama to back Abenomics Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:27 AM PST  Source: Reuters By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be seeking to put a strong U.S.-Japan alliance on full display in the face of potential threats from a nuclear North Korea and an assertive China when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday. Expectations for "Abenomics," especially drastic monetary easing, have sliced about 10 percent off the yen's value against the dollar since Abe took office, raising concern that Japan is weakening its currency to export its way out of recession. "The situation in East Asia is becoming more and more precarious," said Mikitaka Masuyama, a professor at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. "One of the things he wants to achieve will be reinforcement of the Japan-U.S. alliance." "It would be a successful trip for Abe if his economic policy wins a nod from the U.S. side or at least if it is not rejected outright," he added. Abe, due to arrive in Washington late on Thursday, also hopes to secure at least a wink and a nod from Obama that would allow him to argue that Japan can negotiate special treatment for politically sensitive sectors such as rice if it joins talks on a U.S.-led free trade pact. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that Tokyo must be open to negotiation on all trade sectors, but did not rule out the possibility of special treatment in the final deal. Japan's big businesses wants it to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact to avoid being left behind in global competition, but powerful farm lobbies are opposed, dividing Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Previewing the meeting, Michael Froman, Obama's adviser on international economics, said the two leaders would review the status of TPP consultations and insisted that Japan would be expected to put everything "on the table" for negotiation as other countries in the process have done. Froman declined to say whether the president would raise Japan's currency during the talks. But he told reporters: "The U.S. and Japan have a shared interest in seeing stronger global growth in the economy and we agree that no countries should target currencies for competitive purpose or try to grow at the expense of others." SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Aides say Abe's top priority for the visit, during which he will hold a summit on Friday with Obama and deliver a policy speech entitled "Japan is Back," is to repair an alliance they argue was dented by the 2009-2012 rule of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). "During the three years and three months of the Democratic Party government, there was a great gap in the U.S.-Japan alliance," said a close aide to Abe. "So the biggest objective is to rebuild the alliance." Outside experts agree the alliance suffered under the first DPJ prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, who tried unsuccessfully to revise a deal to move a U.S. Marine air base to a sparsely populated part of Japan's Okinawa island. But Abe's immediate predecessor, Yoshihiko Noda, did much to repair the damage, they say. The two leaders will spend time on the need for stronger sanctions on North Korea and are likely to discuss beefed up missile defense after Pyongyang's latest nuclear test last week. Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, said they would consult on North Korea's "provocative acts" as part of Washington's effort to reaffirm its commitment to Asian allies while sending a message to Pyongyang that it will be held responsible for its actions. The hawkish Abe will also be hoping that putting a robust alliance on display sends a signal to China not to escalate the row over tiny islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China. "It is important for us to have them recognize that it is impossible to try to get their way by coercion or intimidation. In that regard, the Japan-U.S. alliance, as well as the U.S. presence, would be critical," Abe told the Washington Post in an interview. Tension has raised fears of an unintended military incident near the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. Washington says the islets fall under a U.S.-Japan security pact, but it is keen to avoid a clash in such an economically vital region. "No one wants to allow tensions … to escalate," said Danny Russel, Obama's Asia adviser. The president "will value hearing the prime minister's assessment and will welcome any and all constructive steps to engage diplomatically and to manage the maritime situation in a way that prevents the risk of miscalculation," he said. Obama and Abe may also discuss cyber-security, the White House said. U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned amid growing reports of China's role in cyber-attacks on U.S. government and corporate entities – something Beijing denies. Abe is expected to come bearing one welcome gift – a promise Japan will finally join an international treaty on cross-border child custody disputes, known as The Hague Convention. Japan has been the only member of the Group of Eight advanced nations not to join the pact, despite pressure from the United States and other countries.   |
| Russia, China oppose military intervention in North Korea Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:29 AM PST  Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Russia and China said on Friday they would oppose any foreign military intervention in North Korea over its recent nuclear test. "We are against the carrying out of a nuclear test in North Korea," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a joint news conference after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "The U.N. Security Council should give an adequate response … but the action should be directed towards peace on the Korean peninsula," he said. Lavrov said China and Russia had agreed that it was "vitally important not to … allow the situation to be used as a pretext for military intervention." North Korea's latest test, its third since 2006, prompted warnings from Washington and others that more sanctions would be imposed on the isolated state. The U.N. Security Council has only just tightened sanctions on Pyongyang after it launched a long-range rocket in December. The North is banned under U.N. sanctions from developing missile or nuclear technology after its 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.   |
| China acknowledges 'cancer villages' Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:58 AM PST China's environment ministry appears to have acknowledged the existence of so-called "cancer villages", after years of public speculation about the impact of pollution in certain areas. |
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| Principal held after female students molested Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:46 AM PST THE principal of a kindergarten has been detained for molesting female students in Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Evening News reported today. The principal, surnamed Ma, 60, molested a five-year-old girl when visiting her home at the end of last month, the newspaper said. Ma, principal of Yuying Kindergarten in Yuchu Village of Gaoling County, visited the victim on January 24. The victim's grandmother led him to the girl's room and left them alone as she assumed it was a regular visit. But later she was shocked when she checked on them and found the man exposing his genitals to the young girl. She shouted, which frightened Ma away. The girl's parents reported the case to the police that night. "I felt a little strange when I saw him hugging the girl," the grandmother told the newspaper. "How could anyone know he would do that later?" But Ma had already fled and police didn't capture him until Tuesday. Four other parents told police their children had been harassed by Ma, the report said. The kindergarten was run privately by a family and first opened two decades ago. Education authorities have since set up another kindergarten in the village, the report said. |
| Wuhan doctors on strike over X-ray radiation Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:24 AM PST SOME hospital workers in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province reportedly went on strike after three gynecologists developed thyroid cancer, which they believed was caused by their frequent exposure to X-rays. The three women doctors at the Wuhan Union Hospital were diagnosed with cancer last month, today's Beijing News reported. They blamed the hospital in a statement made to the public on Monday. The statement said they performed surgeries on a floor directly underneath two X-ray machines in two bone surgery rooms overhead. The two rooms were not insulated with radiation-proof materials. The hospital did not inform or warn them of the risks. Their plight caused panic among other hospital staff. Those who worked in the two bone surgery rooms staged a strike and forced the hospital to suspend surgeries, the paper said. But the hospital denied the allegations, saying its facilities had passed three tests conducted by the Hubei Province Disease Prevention and Control Center since December. The provincial health bureau also supported the hospital, saying in a statement yesterday that no radiation leak was detected in the operating rooms. |
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