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Sometimes, it is good to be Pfizer — especially when there is a pandemic they can leverage to their advantage to create a monopolistic market-share of a vaccine that government literally buys from them and markets to patients, or when they can manipulate the government into protecting their data for another half-century. Other times, it isn’t so good to be Pfizer, as was the case with Project Veritas’ story which showed Pfizer employees contradicting the government’s vaccine narrative.And yet other times, Pfizer runs into a situation so dire, it could destroy their business for a decade to come. In pharmaceuticals,...

Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia. Former history teacher and scholar Tamaki Matsuoka holds Japan's education system responsible for a number of the country's foreign relations difficulties. "Our system has been creating young people who get annoyed by all the complaints that China and South Korea make about war atrocities because they are not...

The Nanjing government has released an article that states a patient suffering from recurrent Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (otherwise known as ALL) has been cured following CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) therapy at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Through genetic engineering, the patient’s T cells (the lymphoid stem cell, which is derived from bone marrow) were regenerated, “wiping out the tumour through the immune system”. The patient, a Mr. Zhang, had already endured two rounds of chemotherapy before, he says, the therapy “pulled me back from the jaws of death”. The 49 year old Zhang had caught a...

Purple haze: lilac sky at night highlights China's smog blight Images showing Nanjing city shrouded in a violet fug - said to be caused by a pollution spike at sunset - follow two red alerts for Beijing over toxic air A Nanjing sunset, when the purple twilight and dense smog combined to give the appearance of a purple haze. Photograph: Weibo Tom Phillips in Beijing Wednesday 23 December 2015 06.16 GMT Photographs appearing to show one of China's most famous cities shrouded in a spectacular violet mist went viral on Wednesday, as millions of citizens choked on the country's latest...

A new plant can turn out 12 million copies a year. Some are for export, but most are for domestic sale. The factory looks like it could be any plant in this export-driven nation. Hundreds of Chinese workers huddle over loud machines churning out large orders for customers at home and abroad. But what they're making might surprise you: Bibles. As Tibetan monks grab headlines protesting the lack of religious freedom under Chinese rule, a booming Bible industry is on its way to turning the world's biggest atheist nation into the world's largest producer of the Good Book. Chairman Mao...

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/begin my translationThird  Chinese Airforce Plane Crash in a Row  this Month The third crash of Chinese airforce planes occurred in this month.  According to June 22nd issue of Ming-bao in Hong Kong,  around noon, June 21st, an Chinese airforce plane crashed at Jin-jiang, Quan-zhou City, Fujian Province, killing its pilot. The crash follows  the crash of an KJ-2000 AWACS developed by China on June 3rd at Guang-de County, Anhui Province, killing 40 on board including engineers, and another of Jian-7E fighter plane on June 12th in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. China has not revealed the type of the crashed plane or...

To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, the Chinese government has released a film made by an Episcopal priest documenting the Nanjing massacre. The Rev. John G. Magee, an Episcopal missionary in China from 1912-1940, recorded the Dec. 13, 1937, capture of the city and six-week killing spree by Japanese soldiers that claimed over 300,000 Chinese lives. China’s Xinhua News Agency reported the National Museum in Beijing began screenings of Fr. Magee’s film on Aug. 10, and that a library in Nanjing dedicated to preserving the memory of the victims of the massacre had...

LONDON (Reuters) - Administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Friday it had selected China's Nanjing Automobile to buy the assets of bankrupt carmaker MG Rover and its engine producer Powertrain. "Nanjing has indicated its intention to relocate the engine plant and some of the car production plant to China, to retain some car production plant in the UK and to develop an R&D and technical facility here," PwC said in a statement. Chinese rival Shanghai Automotive Corp. (SAIC) and a British consortium had also bid to buy MG Rover assets.

China's Selective MemoryBy PU ZHIQIANG Published: April 28, 2005 ew HavenEVER since June 4, 1989, when the world's cameras embarrassed the Chinese government by recording the slaughter of unarmed protesters in Beijing, spring has been a sensitive period in Chinese politics. Public demonstrations of all kinds have been repressed as if they were vicious cancers. It is indeed news, then, that people have been protesting in the streets of Chinese cities about Japan's wartime past, its textbooks' reluctance to face history squarely, and its proposed accession to the United Nations Security Council. Of course, the fundamental nature of these protests...

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday expressed "deep remorse" and "heartfelt apology" for Japan's wartime wrongdoings, in a gesture believed to be aimed at mending ties with its Asian neighbors that have soured due to historical issues surrounding Japan's war in Asia and its occupation of Korea. In a speech delivered to a meeting of Asian and African leaders held in the Indonesian capital, Koizumi also made a pitch for reforms of the U.N. Security Council and underscored Tokyo's qualifications as a potential permanent member of the U.N. decision-making body. "In the past, Japan, through its colonial rule...

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese court refused compensation for Chinese victims of some of imperial Japan's most notorious atrocities including the Nanjing massacre amid a heated row between Tokyo and Beijing over memories of the occupation. The 10 survivors or relatives of victims from the Nanjing massacre, of Japan's Unit 731 which conducted germ experiments on humans, and of Japanese bombings had sought an apology and compensation totalling 100 million yen (930,000 dollars). But consistent with a long line of Japanese rulings and official statements, the Tokyo High Court said the government compensated states, not individuals, for past wrongdoing. "Under...

In a recent News Feature in Nature, Nosengo (2003) frets about the findings of James Galloway, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who estimates, according to Nosengo, "that almost half of the nitrogen spread onto fields is not taken up by crops but instead washes away." What happens to this unused nitrogen? Much of it is converted to ammonia and NOX, which makes its way into the atmosphere from whence it ultimately rains down upon earth's forests, many of which are claimed to be receiving an overdose of this normally essential element. Too much of a...

Below are some articles on the poisoning case in China. Latest reports in Chinese language media are almost 250 are dead with 1000 posioned. And posioning has taken place in two other places. They think wells were laced with very strong rat poison. ____ South China Morning Post September 16, 2002 SECTION: News; Pg. 7 LENGTH: 482 words HEADLINE: Residents recall horror of tainted-breakfast tragedy while looking after sick family and friends Sorrow engulfs poison-case town BYLINE: Josephine Ma BODY: Tangshan town residents yesterday struggled to come to terms with the deaths of mainly schoolboys in the Nanjing food poisoning...