China quality chief resigns over milk (BBC)

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 11:33 GMT, Monday, 22 September 2008 12:33 UK

China quality chief resigns over milk

The head of China's quality watchdog has resigned amid a growing
scandal over melamine-contaminated milk, the official Xinhua news
agency reports.

Li Changjiang stepped down "with the approval of the State Council",
China's cabinet, Xinhua said.

Earlier Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologised for the contamination,
which has made nearly 53,000 children ill.

Four children have died and about 13,000 remain in hospital, 104
of them reportedly in a serious condition.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7629130.stm

[jakem]

1. im surprised he has not yet been executed.

Though this would bring much rejoicing to the growing bloodthirsty branch of the DU party...

[NNN0LHI]

2. He will be

Unlike the USA China actually does execute wealthy people.

I am against the death penalty for anyone in any country.

Don

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. I just received an email from my Chinese penpal.

"Do you hear the news about the poison milk kills the kids event in China?
Contaminated milk food has claimed , five officials involved this matter are fired.
The chinese government takes serious powerful measures to solve the event.
The officials involved in this scandal have been sacked. The infants who has drunk the contaminated milk food were diagnosed with kidney stons, they have got the free treatment. The serious conditions have been brought under effective control.
This is the week's most important news, I think."

She's a young student I'm helping with English and goes on to say that she reads "The China Daily" and "Newsweek" to get the news.