URUMQI – Freezing weather and heavy snowstorms in China’s far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region since December have left 30 people dead and three missing, a local official said on Saturday.
The snowstorms, the worst in six decades, also seriously affected 1.88 million people after houses collapsed and livestock were killed, Qian Zhi, deputy chairman of [...]

LHASA – Twenty-six people were killed and nine were injured after a truck crashed at a roadside hill in southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region on Saturday, local police said.
Police investigation showed that the accident, which occurred at about 11:50 am in Sangri county in south Tibet’s Shannan prefecture, was caused by brake failure.
The truck with [...]

The denial by sources from the Ministry of Agriculture of its approval of importing and planting genetically modified (GM) crop seeds should serve to dispel consumers’ anxiety that they would be unaware if they were eating GM foods.
But we get the message from what has been said about the future of GM technology. Advocates have [...]