Tag Archives: safety

Get a dose of your own medicine: Chongqing man drinks formalin

Posted on 2010-08-04 by Eric Mu

A man in Chongqing was rushed to hospital yesterday after drinking a “big mouthful” of formalin, a solution of highly lethal formaldehyde. He had received a stomach wash and turned out all right.

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Six-year-old kept in a chicken cage for a year

Posted on 2009-07-22 by Eric Mu

For over a year, a six-year-old girl was kept by her grandmother in a bamboo cage in Chongqing, the Chongqing Evening News reports.

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Danwei Picks: Construction dust and building materials

Posted on 2008-03-13 by Joel Martinsen

Substandard steel used in construction; Beijing to ban construction for the Olympics; Xinhua tiptoes around the Premier; Rule 1: no talking about the South China Tiger case.

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Fire in Guangzhou skyscraper

Posted on 2007-09-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Two videos from Youku.com of a fire on a building under construction, and a crocodile being killed in a restaurant.

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