10 Aug 2012

Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai, murdered a British business associate by pouring poison into his mouth after he had become drunk and vomited, a court official said...

11:15PM
10 Jun 2012

As a mother who carefully controls how much time her children spend in front of televisions and computers, it has come as quite a surprise to me, and I think to my children as well, just how much...

5:10PM
1 Jun 2012

Airport customs officers have seized hundreds of thousands of flu pills destined for underground laboratories on the mainland, where they would have been turned into quantities of the drug Ice...

4:24PM
22 May 2012

When the University of Hong Kong released the results of a study into the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating depression recently, it wasn't the fact that 19.4 per cent of patients reported...

3:28PM
13 Mar 2012

Shopping online is one of Anita Lim's favourite pastimes. Her regular purchases include pharmaceuticals, such as appetite suppressants, painkillers and tablets that claim to do everything from...

9:57AM
26 Feb 2012

The public has grown increasingly frustrated at the seeming impotence of the authorities to stem the tide of mainland mothers overtaxing the city's obstetrics services.

8:27AM

Beijing has pledged to upgrade domestic drug standards to international levels in the next four years as part of a drive to improve drug safety.

7:28AM

Shanghai Pharmaceuticals, one of the mainland's biggest drug makers and distributors, is buying Changzhou Kony Pharma to broaden its product portfolio and strengthen the manufacturing of special...

6:54AM

Anti-narcotics police from Hong Kong are flying to Manila to help identify five suspects caught in a raid on an Ice factory in an upmarket gated housing estate.

6:47AM

Philippine anti-drugs police are searching for two Hongkongers after two Ice factories were found abandoned in the same upmarket community where five Hongkongers were arrested last week.

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5:30AM

In a dark and run-down industrial zone in Shanghai's suburban Fengxian district, two security guards for a suitcase manufacturer point to a deserted section of their building and recall how it...

3:57AM

Beijing will establish a credit rating system, intensify monitoring of pharmaceutical companies and stamp out manipulation of drug prices by 2015.

2:48AM

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