http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/guangzhou/ en-us Thu, 5 Aug 2004 06:19:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185352/posts Aug. 4, 2004 21:16 | Updated Aug. 4, 2004 22:01 New Zealand passport scam takes Canadian twist By HERB KEINON The New Zealand passport flap is thickening, with Canada trying to determine whether one of the Israelis allegedly involved in the scam who managed to leave New Zealand is traveling on a stolen Canadian passport. Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesman Reynald Doiron confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the Canadian police and other federal agencies are investigating whether Ze'ev Barkan, one of the men New Zealand suspects of involvement in the scandal but who has reportedly left the country, is traveling... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185352/posts#comment Thu, 5 Aug 2004 06:19:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578315/posts Citizens in south China's largest city, Guangzhou, risk a drinking water cut-off in the coming days as salt levels reach alarming heights, state media said Monday. A "salt tide," caused as a drought sucks seawater inland, is threatening the city and municipal authorities can no longer guarantee normal, uninterrupted supplies, the People's Daily reported. To brace for the crisis, several waterworks have been ordered to cease operations for limited periods of time over the coming week, according to the paper. The steps come as salt levels in some parts of the city's water supply have hit 2,000 milligrams per liter,... TerraDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578315/posts#comment Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521582/posts The United States has issued an alert for citizens living in southern China after receiving "credible information" that a terrorist threat may exist against US government facilities in the city of Guangzhou. A notice on the website of the US consulate in Hong Kong, says the threat "also may exist for places where Americans are known to congregate or visit, including clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools or outdoor recreation events". Last Wednesday, Chinese police warned that Islamic extremists could be planning attacks on luxury hotels in China this week, ahead of US President George W. Bush's three-day visit starting... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521582/posts#comment Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:12:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1520187/posts   Do We Finally Get To Kill Somebody?November 10, 2005 With real threats to our national security in full bloom, and traitors in need of immediate lethal injection, why is the Beltway obsessed with much ado about a paper-pushing blond and her self-admitted psychedelic husband?  Maybe the rest of liberal America, along with Joe Wilson, have had “too many wives and taken too many drugs”. Or, in Bill Bennett’s words is it just a case of Overt Inconsistency?  As Bennett rhetorically notes about the liberals, and the MSM Fifth Column, their “support for the CIA, and...for secrecy in war and intelligence, lasted... dansargis.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1520187/posts#comment Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516039/posts LOS ANGELES (AP) - An engineer and Chinese television director are among four people indicted on charges of stealing secret documents on Navy warships and trying to smuggle them to China, prosecutors said Friday. Chi Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen from China who lives in Los Angeles County, was arrested Oct. 28. He allegedly took computer disks from Anaheim defense contractor Power Paragon, where he was lead engineer on a research project involving warship propulsion systems, according to an FBI affidavit. He also allegedly e-mailed photos and reports about the project to his home computer. Authorities say Chi Mak and... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516039/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2005 03:59:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057338/posts Second Chinese Sars case confirmed Tuesday January 13, 2004 A second new case of Sars was confirmed in China today, fuelling fear of a resurgence of the disease that swept through the region last year. A waitress in the southern province of Guangzhou tested positive for the virus, Hong Kong Cable Television was quoted as reporting by Reuters. The television station quoted sources from China's health ministry as saying a formal announcement would be made later. The woman is in hospital in Guangzhou city. A third suspected Sars case in the southern city of Shenzhen, however, has been discounted, Reuters... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057338/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:42:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053306/posts Rats are next China's SARS hitlist January 07 2004 at 01:45PM Beijing - China's quest to stamp out Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has spread from the slaughter of civet cats to rats as the southern province of Guangdong ordered a large scale rat extermination campaign, state media said on Wednesday. Communist Party and government officials in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, have stipulated a city-wide effort to kill rats or mice between January 10 and 13, the Guangzhou Daily said. Residents are encouraged to set rat poison in their homes, block all channels of entry for the rodents, including drains... IOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053306/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051935/posts <p>China on Monday confirmed its first SARS case since an outbreak of the disease was contained in July and authorities ordered the emergency slaughter of some 10,000 civet cats and related species after tests linked a virus found in the animals to the patient.</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051935/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:26:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051650/posts China Orders Cats Killed After SARS Tests By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - China on Monday ordered some 10,000 civet cats in wildlife markets killed in its southern province of Guangdong after genetic tests suggested a link to a suspected SARS (news - web sites) case. Also Monday, authorities denied reports that a second suspected case of severe acute respiratory syndrome had been found in Guangdong. All of Guangdong's wildlife markets were ordered to close, Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of the province's health department, said on national television. Civets are considered a delicacy in Guangdong and are served... AP/Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051650/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2004 05:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050073/posts Confusion reigns over suspected SARS case   18:23 30 December 03   NewScientist.com news service   A suspected case of a man infected with the SARS virus, has been reported in China. More tests are being carried out as a "confused laboratory picture" emerges. Some reports suggested on Tuesday that SARS had indeed been confirmed by laboratory tests on samples from the 32-year-old television producer. Previous incidents since the world was declared SARS-free in late June, have proved to be either false alarms or isolated accidents in laboratory workers. For example, a case of SARS was confirmed in a medical researcher in Taiwan... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050073/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:50:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047255/posts <p>SARS first emerged in Guangdong, with evidence suggesting it jumped from animals to humans.</p> <p>BEIJING (CNN) -- A health official in China's Guangdong province has reported that a man suspected of having SARS has been identified and isolated in a hospital in the provincial capital of Guangzhou.</p> CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047255/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047167/posts HONG KONG, Saturday, Dec. 27 — A free-lance television employee has fallen ill 80 miles from here in southern China with what doctors suspect is SARS, health officials here and in mainland China said on Saturday afternoon. The unidentified man has the clinical symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome, including a full-blown respiratory tract infection and fever, said P.Y. Lam, Hong Kong's director of health. But a laboratory test for antibodies against the virus was inconclusive, possibly because blood was drawn for the test early in the illness, while a genetic test for the virus has not yet been completed,... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047167/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2003 05:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047109/posts A PATIENT in a hospital in southern China is being treated as a suspected case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). "This suspected case has been reported to the health ministry," an official of the Guangdong provincial health bureau said today. "The ministry has to now send specialists to determine if it is indeed a SARS case." The patient is in hospital in Guangzhou city. The Courier-Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047109/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:47:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842680/posts <p>BEIJING, China -- Chinese and Hong Kong authorities are on the alert as a mystery illness sweeps through southern China.</p> <p>The pneumonia-like sickness has so far killed at least five people and hospitalized around 300, with panicked Chinese flocking to pharmacies to stock up on medicines.</p> CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842680/posts#comment Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:01:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898746/posts Guangzhou, China - Here, at the epicenter of the disease known as SARS, dinner can be bought live at a "wet market." Just outside the banking and commercial center of the capital of Guangdong Province stretches a wide, congested boulevard lined with machine shops, auto parts vendors and industrial parts outlets. Delivery trucks, lumbering buses and darting taxis vie for position. NewsDay.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898746/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:19:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898848/posts Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE Late night news & current affairs TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s837819.htm Broadcast: 22/4/2003Aust virologist leads WHO's fight against SARSTony Jones speaks to Professor John McKenzie from Hong Kong about the outbreak of the deadly SARS virus. Professor Mckenzie is an internationally recognised virologist from the University of Queensland and was sent to China less than a month ago by the World Health Organisation to work as their team leader in the country before the extent of SARS was known. You could describe Professor McKenzie and his team as "virus detectives".... LATELINE TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898848/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:09:21 GMT