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An Open Letter to “Sanlu Noxious Mile Powder” Issue from The China House Church Federation

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

China Aid Association 09-22-2008 on Chinese Version Website
Since early August 2008, a large amount of infant kidney-stone issues have been found in many cities and provinces in China. This has aroused great concern in every social circle. Certified by the State Health and Quality Safety Department, the cause of the kidney stones turned out to [...]

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China milk crisis ‘deplorable’

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

CNN’s John Vause reports world health officials say more work needs to be done to end China’s milk crisis.

Source: CNN

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Tainted milk crisis hits more global companies

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

My Way News
Sep 27, 7:35 AM (ET)
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
(AP) A Philippine police officer carries packs of White Rabbit candies as it was ordered withdrawn aside…
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Snackers, beware: Your favorite chocolate or creamy treats might contain milk contaminated with melamine.
The list of companies facing potential recalls grew Friday as reports of foods tainted [...]

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Yang Jianli calls for“Sanlu Noxious Milk Powder Victims Union”

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

09-25-2008 Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran Tel: 202-290-1423 initiatives4china@gmail.com
www.initiativesforchina.org
Dr. Yang Jianli is the founder of Initiativesforchina (Gong-min-li-liang Movement) and a Senior Research Fellow of Harvard University. As the plenary speaker on the 20th and the 21st of September for the Democracy Forum in Radio Free Asia, he [...]

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Congressman Wolf writes to Secretary of State for release of Wang Bingzhang

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

09-25-2008
Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran
Tel: 202-290-1423
initiatives4china@gmail.com
www.initiativesforchina.org
Dr. Wang Bingzhang, a life long democracy activist, is one of the political prisoners we are working together with his daughter for his release from China. Recently, the Congressman Frank Wolf wrote a letter to State Secretary Rice and urged for a special attention on the case. In this [...]

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Anger over tainted milk rises in China

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

By Jim Yardley
Published: September 17, 2008 by International Herald Tribune
BEIJING: At Children’s Hospital on the east side of Beijing, harried nurses spent Wednesday behind a small wooden desk, registering infants in a rapidly filling logbook. Anxious parents, fearing they might have unwittingly fed their infants with tainted baby formula, waited for hours to determine if [...]

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China baby milk toll ‘may rise’

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

BBC News 09-16-2008
China’s health ministry says the number of babies sickened by contaminated milk powder could rise further.
Two babies died and over 1,200 became ill after drinking the milk, which was spiked with the chemical melamine.
State media quoted the ministry as saying medical agencies were ready for a “possibly rising” number of cases.
Hundreds of angry [...]

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Introduction to the Founder

Dr. Yang Jianli

Founder and President of Initiatives for China, Dr. Yang Jianli was born in Shandong Province in northern China. A graduate of Beijing Normal University, Dr. Yang holds a PhD. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Political Economy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. In 1989, at the age of 26, his fellow graduate students at Berkeley selected him to go to Beijing in support of their counterparts in China who were demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square. He arrived in Tiananmen Square in time to witness the massacre of thousands of peaceful demonstrators by the guns and tanks of the Chinese government. This event fundamentally changed young Jianli's future. He narrowly escaped capture and returned to the United States where he committed himself to studying democracy. Read more...