Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills More Than 100 in China This Year
Gas poisonings in southern China have left at least 104 people dead and hundreds hospitalized.
Gas poisonings in southern China have left at least 104 people dead and hundreds hospitalized.
A notorious Chinese dog meat festival opened on Wednesday with butchers hacking slabs of canines and cooks frying the flesh despite rumours that the authorities would impose a ban this year.
Chinese officials are set to ban the sale of dog meat at the annual Yulin festival, according to China-based activists.
Once a largely undisturbed hamlet hidden in the karst mountains of Guangxi Province, Bama has in recent years become a magnet for China’s sick and aged.
Festival proponents defend the practice as an expression of cultural heritage and argue that eating dogs is no different from eating cows or turkeys.