An Australian teenager was critically ill in hospital yesterday after being bitten by the world's most venomous snake, with detectives investigating how he came into contact with the desert...
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Judith Waldron's letter ('Too early to say that spill is not toxic', August 10) said, incorrectly, that plastic particles at sea absorb persistent organic pollutants onto their surfaces. It should...
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A Hong Kong mother had an unexpected extra delivered with a package of household items from Australia - a deadly spider.
The venomous redback spider leapt out of some wind chimes...
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Asia is home to some of the most dangerous workplaces in the world, a Hong Kong-based labour rights centre says in a damning report.
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A flurry of lead-poisoning cases has hit several industrial hubs on the mainland, raising concerns over widespread heavy-metal pollution and its unsettling human toll.
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Take a look at Hechi city, a booming mining town in the northwest of Guangxi, and the jarring dissonance immediately hits you.
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All heavy-metal smelting plants in Hechi, Guangxi province, will be relocated by 2015, a move that comes amid ongoing efforts to tackle a toxic cadmium spill that has threatened the drinking...
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Environmental experts say the toxic metal contamination of a tributary of the Pearl River in Guangxi may evolve into the mainland's worst chemical spill in decades.
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Household poisonings can make for bizarre reading, but the threat is deadly real. Toxins took the lives of 38 Hongkongers last year, in some cases from consuming the most mundane of household...
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The Hong Kong government has been accused of being 'totally irresponsible' over health risks to humans and pets by failing to control adequately the use of potentially dangerous chemicals to kill...
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Nearly a third of the toys on store shelves contain heavy metals and about 10 per cent have lead levels that exceed national safety standards, Greenpeace said in a report released in Hong Kong...
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Yi Xiaomao has tears in her eyes as she talks about the final days of her daughter, Bingjie, who died in 2008, one day before her sixth birthday, partly from cadmium poisoning. The sparse living...
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