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Posts from the ‘Health and medicine’ Category

Jan 28

Panic buying in Liuzhou

Panic buying of water in Liuzhou – a report from the ground

BBC News — 26 January 2012: River pollution sparks panic water buying in China city

Ken Fletcher is a British resident of Liuzhou in Guangxi Province where the panic buying is taking place. He sent this report to Danwei on January 27. Read more

Aug 30

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Scenes from the tobacco harvest: Why China can’t quit smoking

Gejiu is a city of 135,000 people that lies 280 kilometers southeast of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, and several hours north of China’s border with Vietnam. Sibling mountains cradle Gejiu in a narrow valley, made even smaller by the wide Golden Lake (金湖) which sits at the city’s center.

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