“USA Today obtained an internal U.S. Olympic Committee e-mail in which a Chinese official expressed concern that members of the U.S. team might stage some sort of demonstration. The list was given to the USOC during a meeting July 8 with Shu Xiao, minister counselor for cultural affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, the e-mail said. The athletes included softball players Jennie Finch, Jessica Mendoza, Natasha Watley, Amanda Freed, and softball assistant coach Karen Johns; soccer player Abby Wambach; cyclist Jonathan Page; paralympic basketball player Jen Howitt; paralympic wheelchair racer Cheri Blauwet; and golfer Laura Goodwin.” [Link]
“The results, shown on the administration’s Web site, indicate a further widening of the scandal that has sparked massive product recalls in China and countries that received Chinese food exports ranging from infant formula to chocolate. The contamination is blamed for the deaths of four children and kidney ailments among 54,000 others.” [Link]
“The recall of four batches of Lipton’s 3-in-1 milk tea powder came after the company’s internal quality check found melamine, used to make plastics and fertilizers, in the products, Unilever Hong Kong Ltd. said in a statement. ” [Link]
“Cadbury Asia Pacific told the Hong Kong government’s Center for Food Safety the chocolates were made in Cadbury’s factory in the Chinese capital Beijing, the Hong Kong government said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately clear if tests found the industrial chemical melamine in the products.” [Link]
“Chinese officials in Xinjiang Province reported the death of a fourth baby Thursday in the country’s expanding contaminated infant formula case. The tainted milk powder has already sickened more than 6,200 babies. Earlier in the day, authorities announced the arrest of 12 more suspects in the investigation, provincial police said.” [Link]
“A Chinese dairy that sold baby milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants and one death knew weeks before it ordered a recall that the product contained a banned chemical, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as the number of sick babies rose to 140. A Health Ministry statement gave no indication as to why Sanlu Group, China’s biggest milk powder producer, failed to warn consumers immediately. ” [Link]
“Why doesn’t News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch just make it official? His wife, Wendi Deng, serves as ‘chief strategist’ for MySpace China, the media conglomerate’s Internet outpost in her homeland. MySpace China CEO Luo Chuan has just quit. Just promote her already, Rupert!” [Link]
“China’s Godson-3 chip is ambitious if anything. It proposes to be everything a world-class processor should be–and then some. Developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it also has a larger goal: microprocessor independence for China. ‘Their motivation is pretty clear. They don’t want to be totally dependent on the outside world for something as important as microprocessors,’ said Tom Halfhill, an analyst at In-Stat. ” [Link]
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