More Chinese food For the past two years agricultural experts and population central advocates have debated the question of “Who will feed China?” Worldwatch President Lester Brown posed this question in his similarly titled book,1 and it was further spread by Brown in a series
Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine, by Jasper Becker published by The Free Press (New York, New York: 1996) ISBN 0-684-83457-X 352 pages. Reviewed by Steven W. Mosher Some of the darkest chapters in recent human history have been written in the People’s Republic of China.
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has indicated.1 The study tested random samples of a tetanus vaccine for the presence of
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation is the opposite: We have allowed Dr. Xiong Ping to vent his views in this publication precisely because we find
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to have gathered evidence of “thousands” more. “Women are being trampled. Their rights are being trampled,” said Jorge Serrano Limon, director
Don’t put anything on the World Wide Web that you wouldn’t want to see appear in the following day’s New York Times . This commonsense axiom is so widely accepted and practiced that the unsuspecting surfer is stunned by the unexpected candor of the U.S.
It had been a long time coming but Li Dao Yu, a woman who fled the People’s Republic of China after being forced to undergo abortion, was finally released from a US prison 8 October following an asylum hearing. On 6 June 1993 she leaped
PRI Staff The long-standing neglect and outright hostility often directed towards young girls in some Asian countries, appears to have become increasingly common in recent years as women opt for smaller families, according to new studies reported at the annual meeting of the Population Association
The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children’s Welfare Institute, China’s showcase orphanage, read like macabre experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue, a girl, was admitted to the orphanage in November 1989, the month of her birth. Two and a half years
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” 1 On 6 June 1993, off the New York City
More Chinese food For the past two years agricultural experts and population central advocates have debated the question of “Who will feed China?” Worldwatch President
Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine, by Jasper Becker published by The Free Press (New York, New York: 1996) ISBN 0-684-83457-X 352 pages. Reviewed by Steven
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to
Don’t put anything on the World Wide Web that you wouldn’t want to see appear in the following day’s New York Times . This commonsense
It had been a long time coming but Li Dao Yu, a woman who fled the People’s Republic of China after being forced to undergo
PRI Staff The long-standing neglect and outright hostility often directed towards young girls in some Asian countries, appears to have become increasingly common in recent
The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children’s Welfare Institute, China’s showcase orphanage, read like macabre experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue,
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost