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China: Selling out patient privacy to the milk industry

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report from Mirror about milk industry's promotion strategy - by buying pregnant woman's personal data from hospital. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Wed, Oct 01 2008

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22 Sep 08 visit CNN: Four infants in China dead, 53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder. 中國毒奶粉事件繼續延燒-到目前為止已經有五萬三千兒童受害!四人死亡!  »  YouTube video53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder, 13,000 children were hospitalized. The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy...
30 Sep 08 visit Selling out patient privacy to the milk industry  »  Danwei In the wake of the melamine milk scandal, there's been renewed attention in China on the benefits of breast-feeding, and media observers have been examining the questionable ways in which dairy companies hawk their products. An article in the Mirror...
06 Jul 07 visit China: Xiamen to kill off anonymous posting  »  Global Voices Joel Martinsen from DANWEI has translated some local reports about Xiamen Bureau of Industry and Commerce’s preparation to implement the use of real names on the Internet.
29 Dec 08 visit China: Guarantee happiness  »  Global Voices Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report on the government manipulation of a happiness survey in a local town so as to achieve the state targets for improving the people's well-being.
22 Jan 09 visit China: Active Consumption is Patriotic  »  Global Voices Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated local discussion about the relation between consumption and patriotism.
01 Apr 09 visit Translator Interview: Joel Martinsen  »  Sinosplice Joel Martinsen is a well-respected regular contributor to Danwei.org, where his frequent translations are a staple. Joel spends a ton of time immersed in Chinese texts, and according to Brendan, “he never forgets anything he ever reads.” This...

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