Leaders Responsible for Shipwreck Punished Wu Daofan, mayor of Hechuan City in Chongqing, has been given disciplinary sanction for being lax in enhancing production safety, which was partly attributable to a shipwreck that killed 46 passengers in January this year. The medical center of Taiwan's largest charity organization will again donate bone marrow to patients in the mainland, according to reports from Taipei Tuesday. Woes Alarming statistics revealing the widespread problem of tooth disease Tuesday prompted calls by top health officials for immediate actions. In a house behind the Peace Hotel in Lhasa live 17 blind Tibetan children. Every morning, they have a class in typing, and after class, they play football and other games led by their teachers.
Playtime is their happiest hour, and their laughter resounds in the courtyard.
The State Environmental Protection Administration is seeking better ways to curb environmental threats from large quantities of heavy metals, acid and alkali that have been leaking from discarded batteries. It will always be difficult to balance development with the protection of historical sites, and this is an even bigger problem in Beijing. The elementary and middle school students in China have low imagination standard, said Chen Huichang, professor of Beijing Normal University, the China Youth Post reported today. Favor Family Education More than 96 percent of newlyweds, pregnant women, and parents who have children aged between 0 to 14 years old have received some form of family education, according to local authorities. As rain wreaks havoc in Guangdong Province and many parts of South China, a few areas in the North and Northwest of the country have been given some relief from the severe droughts which have plagued them for months.