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The Blood Ties That Bind.(China's AIDS epidemic )
At first, Ruili seems a lot like any other provincial Chinese town. You might not even guess you were teetering on the very edge of the Chinese Empire. Members of China's ethnic majority, the Han, are a minority in this little city on Yunnan's Burmese border. Still, that fact isn't particularly noticeable. Almost everyone on the street is wearing Western-style clothes, except for a few men in traditional Burmese sarongs. But something is not right, and eventually it sinks in. "The place is filled with junkies," says a woman who has lived here for 12 years. "It's easy to recognize them. They're incredibly thin, and they look like all the blood has disappeared from their ...
- Japan Cuts China Aid to Protest A-Tests
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post May 23, 1995 700+ words
...Japan announced today it would trim grant aid to China to protest Beijing's recent nuclear test...grant aid, a tiny component of Japanese aid. Japan gave $91.8 million in grant aid to China in the 1994 financial year, only 3 percent...
- Report questions China aid to Pacific.(Report)
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association June 11, 2008 700+ words
...report has questioned the amount China is spending on aid in the South Pacific, and the...Hanson says there is no evidence China's using aid to smooth the way for its military...to source information showing China aid pledges in the Pacific went from...
- UKRAINE-CHINA-AID.
- Newspaper article from: Ukraine News April 25, 2006 700+ words
UKRAINE-CHINA-AID China to allocate 10m yuan to Ukraine in Chornobyl disaster aid Kyiv, April 25 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The People's Republic of China will give Ukraine aid worth 10 million yuan (about $1.2 million) to overcome...
- Bishop says China aid should stop.
- News wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association April 9, 2007 700+ words
...country taking any more aid money from China. In my opinion it should...take the soft loan from China but not aid money. We're 40 years...good relationship with China. As the fastest growing...suggested that Chinese aid money go towards a purpose...
- Taiwan says 'no thanks' to China aid.
- News wire article from: United Press International September 28, 1999 700+ words
...Red Cross and other government aid. Chinese President Jiang Zemin...and Beijing. ``Taiwan and China always argue,'' said Li Fong...accept $100,000 in relief aid and $60, 000 in materials from...Taipei is obviously worried about China's assertion that the island...
- Russia, China aid Iran's missile program: Prototype expected within three years...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Gertz, Bill September 10, 1997 700+ words
Russia and China are working closely with Iran in building...targets as far away as Germany and western China. The missiles will be made in Iran. The...still has concerns" about the Russian aid to Iran's missile program. "We've...
- Hong Kong Seeks Help From Britain on China;Aid Also Asked on Vietnam Refugees
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David S. Broder June 10, 1989 700+ words
...officials, seeking reassurance of protection from the upheavals in China and relief from a flood of Vietnam refugees entering the crown...colony, Thursday that he could have about $7 million in extra aid to help care for the 38,500 Vietnamese boat people and refugees...
- CHINA-AIDS: UNPROTECTED SEX A MAIN CAUSE OF "THE ILLNESS OF LOVE"
- News wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Rajiv Chandra July 12, 1996 700+ words
...caused by love." Throughout China, the AIDS-causing HIV virus is spreading...use accounts for most of the AIDS cases in China, unprotected sex is expected...Ignorance is also worsening the AIDS crisis in China. In February, the official...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Blood Ties That Bind.(China's AIDS epidemic )