Beijing - China has detained an environmentalist and writer on suspicion of subversion after he initiated an independent investigation into the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Tan Zuoren, a local activist based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was accused of "inciting subversion of state power" after mobilizing volunteers to investigate why school buildings collapsed in the earthquake, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said in a statement.
Beijing - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for urgent action to halt an "alarming" rise in the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
"The situation is already alarming, and it is poised to grow much worse, very quickly," said WHO director-general Margaret Chan.
"If MDR-TB is not vigorously addressed, it stands to replace the mainly drug-susceptible strains currently responsible for 95 per cent of the world's TB cases," Chan said.
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates Foundation to fight the growth of drug-resistant tuberculosis and develop a prevention model that could be used in other nations.
The partnership, announced at a World Health Organization ministerial meeting on tuberculosis, will be supported by a 33-million-dollar grant over five years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Beijing - China on Tuesday denied that it has spied on computers belonging to foreign governments and other organizations, saying the claims by Canadian researchers were caused by a "China threat virus."
Some groups and individuals outside China "are fabricating lies of so-called Chinese computer spies," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said, when asked about the Canadian report that some 1,300 computers worldwide might have been infiltrated by the largely China-based "GhostNet" system.
Beijing - China and the European Union are at loggerheads over their satellite-navigation systems after China's announcement that it plans to use the same broadcast frequency that the European Union earmarked for its Galileo system, officials said Monday.
The conflict over the EU's Galileo and China's Compass navigation systems has become a "classic diplomatic problem," EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told reporters in Beijing.
Beijing - China has detained an environmentalist and writer on suspicion of subversion after he initiated an independent investigation into the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Beijing - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for urgent action to halt an "alarming" rise in the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates Foundation to fight the growth of drug-resistant tuberculosis and develop a prevention model that could be used in other nations.
Beijing - China on Tuesday denied that it has spied on computers belonging to foreign governments and other organizations, saying the claims by Canadian researchers were caused by a "China threat virus."
Beijing - China and the European Union are at loggerheads over their satellite-navigation systems after China's announcement that it plans to use the same broadcast frequency that the European Union earmarked for its Galileo system, officials said Monday.
