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The article reports on the poisoning and death of video game tycoon Lin Qi in December 2020 that ended his dream to establish a global film and television franchise based on the Chinese science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" and its two sequels. Also cited are Lin's plan to bring Chinese popular culture to the global mainstream amidst the growing tensions between China and the West, and the adverse effects of China's control on games, movies and books on Lin's plans.

The article focuses on the worldwide sale of counterfeit prescription drugs containing diathylene glycol, an industrial solvent, as a sweetener. The substance is described as poisonous and fatal to humans. China's status as a major source of counterfeit drugs is given. Deaths and illnesses linked to the drugs in Panama are cited. The resulting international investigation and the flaws it revealed in the inspection process in China and elsewhere are presented.

The article examines a 1997 attempt by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to identify the manufacturer of contaminated glycerin for pharmaceutical use containing poisons which resulted in the deaths of dozens of children in Haiti. The FDA investigation traced the poisoned drugs to China, where government resistance effectively ended it. A decade later, poisoned glycerine from China resulted in hundreds of deaths in Panama.

MENGXI VILLAGE, China -- On a chilly evening early last month, a mob of more than 200 people gathered in this tiny eastern China village at the entrance to the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery Factory, a maker of lead-acid batteries for motorcycles and electric bikes. They shouldered through an outer brick wall, swept into the factory office and, in an outpouring of pure fury, smashed the cabinets, desks and computers inside. News had spread that workers and villagers had been poisoned by lead emissions from the factory, which had operated for six years despite flagrant environmental violations. But the truth was even worse: 233 adults and 99 children were ultimately found to have concentrations of lead in their blood, up to seven times the level deemed safe by the Chinese government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- The authorities suspended a local environmental protection official in eastern China after lead fumes from an illegal battery factory sickened 228 children, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported Sunday. Twenty-three of the children were reported hospitalized. The episode joins a long series of pollution problems, including many instances of lead poisoning, that have struck rural China in recent years as the nation's industrial boom has spread from the Pacific coast to inland provinces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SANYA, China -- A widening national toxic food scandal that has its roots in this tropical island resort area in the South China Sea has set off a rare case of public sniping between officials. The scandal, which has been reported by official news organizations in the last few days, is centered on the cowpea -- an ancient species of legume that includes the black-eyed pea. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly 1,000 children in Henan Province, in central China, have tested positive for excessive lead in their blood, state news media reported Tuesday, the latest of several lead poisoning cases involving thousands of children across the country. After reports of large-scale lead poisoning in neighboring Shaanxi Province, the health bureau in Jiyuan, a city in Henan Province, tested 2,743 children younger than 14, the bureau's director, Wei Zongchang, said, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Signs of lead poisoning were found in 968 of the children, who live near three major lead smelters, Xinhua said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China's Hunan Province, state-run media said on Thursday, the second case of mass lead poisoning in the past month. Officials in Wenping, 970 miles south of Beijing, shut down the smelter, the Wugang Fine-Processed Manganese Smelting Factory, last week and detained two of its owners after about 1,000 local residents protested the poisoning, the English-language state newspaper China Daily reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The police clashed with residents of two villages near a smelting plant in northern China that is blamed for the lead poisoning of nearly all the children in the villages, reports said Monday. It was another sign of growing anger over China's rampant industrial pollution. Several hundred villagers tore down fences and blocked traffic outside the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Company in Shaanxi Province after news of the poisoning emerged last week, state news media and villagers said. Fighting between angry parents and scores of police officers broke out Sunday, and trucks delivering coal to the plant were stoned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several members of the United States track team became ill at the team's pre-Olympic training center in Dalian, about 300 miles east of Beijing, and food poisoning was the likely cause, according to a coach for three Olympians. ''When we were in Dalian, a lot of guys got sick -- five or six every day,'' said John Cook, who coaches the runners Shalane Flanagan, Shannon Rowbury and Erin Donohue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on efforts by the Chinese government to curb poisonings among the country's rural people. Government's confiscation of private stocks of Dushuqiang, the most lethal form of rat poison; Examples of cases wherein rat poison was used as a murder weapon or to settle feuds; Volume of illegal poisons and related paraphernalia that the government has seized.

Reports on the mass food poisoning in Hubei Province, China which left 10 people dead and 23 hospitalized in October 2003.

Reports the outcome of the food poisoning incident at Zhengwu Pastry Bar in Tangsha, Jiangsu Province, China on September 14, 2002 which was caused by competitor Chen Zhengping.