Finally Home

2008-10-08T08:55:00.000+08:00

Indeed, it has been a long time since this public blog opened in Blogger. And of course, in this time, the Blogger has been blocked by China officials because of the Olympia. But fortunatly, it came back at the time of the end of the Games. Now, with seeing so many ‘mishaps’ happened in our mainland, we can’t help but lament “welcome back Beijing!, welcome back China!”.

Actually, since I got my IELTS and CET-6 results and came back to school, I was involved in a series of ‘accidents’. With no doubt, I was attacked by this series of happenings and made me felt really tired. I think it really going to make me insane. I just cannot figure out what these human thinking in their minds.

On the first day of this month, I was cheated bt a man who told me that he want to buy my cellphone which is the my best favorite one bought from Japan, he said that he can buy it in 3000RMB but at the end I was surprise to find that all of the cash was forged note when I was in the dorm. At that night, I was crazed with grief.

After that, I was troubled by several disagrees in friend, lover and stangers , and everyone of these happenings’ cause is not my fault at first but I apologized at last for not making this stuff worse. I just can not understand what’s wrong did I did! But maybe this is fate of mine. No reason, but to accept.

At the end of this month, I hope that the October of my 3^rd year is different and better.

TOM: “Folks find that hard to believe. You can’t help but compare ypurself againest the old timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d have operated these times.

The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure… It’s not that I’m afraid of it, but I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. HE’d have to say, ‘OK, I’ll be part of this world.’ ” ——NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MAN

13,000 Babies in Hospital for China Formula

2008-09-24T20:41:00.001+08:00

BEIJING — China’s milk scandal worsened again Sunday as the government announced that the number of infants sickened by contaminated baby formula had risen to nearly 13,000, more than double the previous tally in the nationwide food safety crisis.

The Ministry of Health, which posted the new figures on its Web site, traced most cases to tainted formula produced by the Sanlu Group, the giant dairy producer whose formula has been recalled because of contamination from an industrial additive, melamine.

In recent weeks, 12,892 infants have been hospitalized across China, most 2 years old or younger, the ministry reported.

The scandal has grown almost daily. What began less than two weeks ago as a recall of Sanlu’s baby formula quickly expanded as government officials disclosed that traces of melamine had also been discovered in powdered formula produced by 21 other dairy companies.

Then officials announced that traces of melamine had also been discovered in some samples of liquid milk, including some produced by the country’s leading dairy producers. All tainted dairy products were then ordered off store shelves, and officials have announced many arrests.

At least three infants have died from kidney problems linked to the melamine. Victims also have been found beyond mainland China for the first time, as health authorities in Hong Kong reported over the weekend that an infant had been sickened by melamine in formula from the mainland.

For the government, the scandal is a recurrence of food safety concerns that arose just last year and that officials had pledged to correct with revamped regulatory controls. Last year, thousands of pets in the United States were sickened from food made with Chinese feed laced with melamine. At the time, officials issued regulations banning the use of melamine in food products. Melamine, high in nitrogen, is used to make plastics and fertilizers, but it can be used illegally to artificially inflate protein levels in milk or other foods.

On Sunday, state media carried reports of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visiting Children’s Hospital in Beijing. “Don’t cry, and it will be over in minutes,” he was quoted as telling a 9-month-old girl undergoing an examination.

The Ministry of Health reported that none of the infants, as yet, had been linked to contaminated liquid milk. Of the nearly 13,000 sickened, officials said 1,579 had already recovered and been released from hospitals. Over all, the ministry said nearly 40,000 infants had been examined.

--FROM NEWYORK TIMES

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