Dead pigs

Letters to the Editor, April 1, 2013

1 Apr 2013

I would like to share with readers more details of our experiences in Sweden, where we have two separate glass recycling systems. For standard drinks containers (glass, PET and aluminium) we have...

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Cradle of Communist Party at centre of dead pig fiasco

1 Apr 2013

For decades, the river-laced city of Jiaxing in northern Zhejiang province has prided itself as the birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party. Now the party's cradle has acquired another, far less...

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China's deadly water problem

26 Mar 2013

In the past two weeks, more than 16,000 dead pigs have been fished out of the Huangpu River, near Shanghai, and its tributaries. Outraged Chinese citizens have decried government negligence of the...

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Over 1,000 deads ducks found in Sichuan river

25 Mar 2013

The decomposed bodies of more than a thousand ducks have been found on a river in Pengshan county, Sichuan, following the dumping of more than 10,000 pigs in the Huangpu River in Shanghai earlier...

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Illegal Zhejiang pork already in food chain

25 Mar 2013

Just when the scandal surrounding the dumping of dead pigs into a primary drinking water source seemed to be drawing to a close, state-run television station has revealed that illegally processed...

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Pig carcass furore still raising worries, despite PR campaign

24 Mar 2013

Officials in China's largest city and in Jiaxing, the suspected source of the dead animals about 100km upstream, as well as the central government, have tried hard to calm the public by insisting...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Will dumping of dead pigs make officials clean up their act?

Neither Shanghai nor Jiaxing, in Zhejiang province, have apologised or punished officials since the first of more than 16,000 dead pigs started turning up in the Huangpu River and its tributaries...

4:42AM

Video: NBC's Jay Leno jokes about China's dead pigs

China's dead pigs are making a name for themselves overseas. Jay Leno, the host of NBC's popular The Tonight Show recently joked about recent reports of dead pigs being left to float in China's...

12:19AM

Pressure grows in Shanghai over dead pigs in Huangpu River

Shanghai authorities are under increasing pressure to release detailed information about tests on water in the Huangpu River, from which more than 10,000 dead pigs have been retrieved.

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Number of dead pigs pulled from Shanghai rivers nears 15,000

The number of dead pigs found in a river which runs through Shanghai had reached nearly 15,000, officials and reports said on Tuesday, as a newspaper claimed the government was concealing the true...

10:29PM

Tough times force Zhejiang fishermen to become ‘pig removers’

Instead of trying to catch fish in China’s polluted waters, fishermen in Zhejiang have been given an unpleasant new task – removing dead pigs from local rivers.

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ENVIRONMENT

Two weeks on and still no answers on source of dead pigs found in Shanghai river

Almost two weeks after dead pigs were first found in Shanghai's Huangpu River, questions about who dumped them, where, and how they died still remain unanswered. So far, about 9,800 dead pigs have...

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