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1. News - Asia - JAPAN

   125,000 lethal doses of cyanide spilled in Japan

   Posted Feb 27th 2013, 01:35pm by Agence France-Presse in Tokyo

   ... News Asia Japan Cyanide Agence France-Presse in Tokyo The equivalent of 125,000 lethal doses of cyanide leaked from a factory in Japan after a snowplough accident, a plant operator said on Wednesday. At least five tonnes of liquid waste containing sodium cyanide spewed out of a tank after it was hit by a snowplough at a plating factory run by Kurosaka Plating Company in Hanamaki, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1159741/125000-lethal-doses-cyanide-spilled-japan
2. News - China - CRIME

   Headmistress in Hebei held as two girls die after eating poisoned yoghurt

   Posted May 03rd 2013, 12:00am by Teddy Ng

   ... News China Poisoning Crime Hebei Kindergartens Teddy Ng teddy.ng@scmp.com Principal arrested after pupils from a rival kindergarten die from drinking poisoned yogurt The headmistress of a kindergarten in Pingshan county, Hebei, has been arrested over the fatal poisoning of two girls at another kindergarten. The girls - cousins Ren Xinyi , five, and Ren Zhaoning , six - collapsed ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1228614/headmistress-hubei-held-after-two-girls-poisoned-death
3. Poisoning: student held

   Posted Jun 21st 2007, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Education Chang Poisons Poisons Christina Yang A university student in Jiangsu province has been arrested for allegedly poisoning classmates. Three students from China University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou needed hospital treatment for food poisoning a few days after eating in the university canteen on May 31. They were diagnosed with thallium poisoning, New Express Daily reported. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/597623/poisoning-student-held
4. News - Hong Kong - HEALTH

   The perils of mushroom hunting

   Posted Apr 27th 2013, 12:00am by Danny Mok

   ... News Hong Kong Wild mushrooms Poison Information Centre Danny Mok danny.mok@scmp.com It may look harmless, but the farinosa is highly dangerous and damages the liver when ingested If you want to eat mushrooms, don't pick wild ones - buy them. That's Poison Information Centre director Dr Rick Lau Fei-lung's warning after the mushroom Amanita farinosa came close ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1224014/perils-mushroom-hunting
5. News - World

   Sacked Russian Olympic official claims he was poisoned

   Posted Apr 29th 2013, 12:00am by GDN

   ... News World Russia Olympic Akhmed Bilalov Vladimir Putin Poison The Guardian in Moscow Russian Winter Games chief blamed by Putin for fiasco says he has raised mercury levels A former Olympic official who fled Russia after President Vladimir Putin criticised him for delays and cost overruns before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi claims he has been poisoned. Akhmed Bilalov, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1225587/sacked-russian-olympic-official-claims-he-was-poisoned
6. News - Hong Kong - CRIME

   Reward offered to track down dog poisoner on Cheung Chau

   Posted Apr 21st 2013, 12:00am by Amy Nip

   ... speculation they could have been poisoned, said Gloria Li Suk-fun, chairwoman of Stop - Save HK's Cats and Dogs. Given the high number of deaths, the timing and the grouping of the incidents ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1219444/reward-offered-track-down-dog-poisoner-cheung-chau
7. News - World - UNITED STATES

   Suspect arrested over US ricin mailings

   Posted Apr 18th 2013, 09:00am by AFP

   ... News World Ricin Poison letter Paul Kevin Curtis Agence France-Presse in Washington A letter addressed to President Barack Obama tested positive for ricin, and authorities arrested a suspect, stoking alarm in Washington on Wednesday after an earlier scare over poisoned mail. The FBI said there was no connection between blasts at the Boston marathon that killed three people ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1217226/suspect-arrested-over-us-ricin-mailings-official
8. News - China

   Roommate held after Shanghai student dies from poisoning

   Posted Apr 17th 2013, 12:17pm by Chris Luo

   ... News China Poisoning Investigation Fudan University Murder suspect Chris Luo chris.luo@scmp.com Medical student had been in hospital for two weeks A medical student from a top Chinese university in Shanghai died of poisoning on Tuesday, after undergoing intense medical care in hospital for two weeks. The victim was identified as Huang Yang, 28, a postgraduate medical student ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1216650/top-university-graduate-student-detained-poisoning-and-murdering-roommate
9. News - Asia - MALAYSIA

   Malaysia offers reward in suspected poisoning of 14 pygmy elephants

   Posted Feb 07th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia Elephants Animal protection Malaysia Poisoning Agence France-Presse in Kota Kinabalu Malaysian authorities will offer a US$16,000 reward for information on 14 rare Borneo pygmy elephants found dead last month if it is confirmed they were poisoned, officials said on Wednesday. Masidi Manjun, the tourism, culture and environment minister for the state of Sabah on vast Borneo ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1144828/malaysia-offers-reward-suspected-poisoning-14-pygmy-elephants
10. Business - China Business - FACTORIES

    US battery-maker bars lead at China plant after poison claims

    Posted Sep 25th 2012, 03:04pm by Agence France-Presse in Shanghai

    ... companies for causing lead poisoning in 49 children, most of them aged between one and three. The city has already shut the other two firms, Shanghai Xinmingyuan Automobile Parts and Shanghai ...

    http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1046955/us-battery-maker-bars-lead-china-plant-after-poison-claims

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