Some more bad news for China

[Kate]

About 450 people have fallen ill in southern China after drinking contaminated water, the Xinhua state news agency says.
Four of the sick, in two villages in Guangxi province, have arsenic poisoning. Industrial waste from a metal company has been blamed.



BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Tainted China water sickens 450

 

[ApOsTle51]

you gotta give it to the chinese, they are consistent...

 

[Kit]

have you seen the price of bread these days?

 

[freddo]

bloody hell, what a state

 

[Rorschach]

It's a huge country trying to come to terms with modernity. It's a very uneven and ragged journey at best.

 

[SQNY]

china tries too hard to cover up the bad stuff. i bet this happened a few weeks or months ago but the news somehow leaked out into the internation news

 

[Magarnagle]

It's a huge country trying to come to terms with modernity. It's a very uneven and ragged journey at best.

That's pretty much it.
Huge country, in transition.
Think about the massive social, economic and cultural changes that Europe went through during both the agrarian and the industrial revolutions.