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Customised stamps helping needy children
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:00:00 +0800 | hongkongpost.com
Customers using Hongkong Post's "Heartwarming Stamps Customised Service"can help needy children this Christmas.
Sun Dec 24 08:59:30 2006 | China Blog List
Rob Luxton?s adventure on a three wheeled recumbent tricycle will take him 25,000km all around China, passing through every province on the mainland. The expedition will help raise awareness and money for two Charities. Sowers Action and Care For Children. Both dedicated to improving the lives of children in poor areas throughout China. Begining near Hong Kong the journey is estimated to last one and half years taking him from busy cities to remote mountain villages, deserts to great plains, deep lush valleys to the the scary heights of the Tibetan plateau and finally into the jungles of the South, before returning to Hong Kong in August 2007.
90M Chinese grow up as 'only' children (AP)
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:06:15 GMT | Yahoo! News
AP - China's one-child policy has created a generation of "only" children that now numbers 90 million, a senior family planning official said Friday.
Villager Executed for Slaying Woman And Children
| CRIENGLISH.com
A man who hacked to death a woman and four children with a firewood chopper last April in a village in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has been ??executed, local authorities announced on Sunday.
World Briefing : W.H.O. Approves Rotavirus Vaccine
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:51:04 EDT | New York Times
The World Health Organization has approved, for the first time, a vaccine against rotavirus, a diarrhea-causing infection that kills up to 600,000 children each year. The approval of the vaccine, Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, means that United Nations agencies can buy it in bulk and use it in mass vaccination campaigns, as is done with polio and measles vaccines. The W.H.O. has long considered an affordable rotavirus vaccine one of its top priorities. Rotavirus infects nearly all children below 5 years old, but 90 percent of those who die of it are in poor countries, mostly in Africa and Asia.
