The following link provides excellent information conerning the
tainted formula

http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2008/09-20/1388166.shtml

Certain Sanlu group's product is standing out in its melamine
concentration which is as high as 2563 mg/kg. Several otehr companys'
formula ranged from 0.09 - 619 mg/kg. For liquid milk, the inspection
results were reported in the following news article. The sefety
threshold is about 15 mg/kg.

http://news.eastday.com/c/20080919/u1a3875912.html

抽检蒙牛产品１２１批次，１１０批次未检出三聚氰胺，１１批次检出三聚氰胺，检出值在０．８－７ｍｇ／ｋｇ；
　　抽检伊利产品８１批次，７４批次未检出三聚氰胺，７批次检出三聚氰胺，检出值在０．７－８．４ｍｇ／ｋｇ；
　　抽检光明产品９３批次，８７批次未检出三聚氰胺，６批次检出三聚氰胺，检出值在０．６－８．６ｍｇ／ｋｇ；
抽检三元产品５３批次，５３批次均未检出三聚氰胺；
　　抽检雀巢产品７批次，７批次均未检出三聚氰胺。
　　被检查的其他４０６家企业生产的８４７批次的液态奶产品未检出三聚氰胺。

蒙牛产品: Out of 121 sample inspections, 110 of them free of melamine, 11
of them showed postive results with concentrations ranged from 0.8 -
7mg/kg.

Made in China is a Toxic word : The Portrait of a Toxic Olympic Host --
Chinese parents panic over tainted milk

Chinese parents panic over tainted milk

Published: September 19 2008 18:00 | Last updated: September 19 2008 18:00

Fu Mingxiong squats against a wall in the sun outside Shanghai
Children’s Hospital, dangling his three-month-old son in split trousers
over a plastic beaker.

The scene is being repeated all over China as anxious parents rush to
overburdened hospitals to have their children’s urine tested for
indications of kidney stones and other illnesses caused by ingesting
melamine.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/66084a16-4b49-11dc-861a-0000779fd2ac.html
Timeline:

Counterfeighting in China

A list of China-related product recalls in the past two years

Dairy suppliers scrimping on costs by diluting milk content in their
products use melamine to make protein levels appear normal.

Formula for disaster:The portrait of a scandal infested Olympic Host --
China's baby-milk scandal Formula for disaster/The Economist

China's baby-milk scandal

Formula for disaster

Sep 18th 2008 | SHIJIAZHUANG

From The Economist print edition

A scandal in China over deadly baby milk

http://www.economist.com/images/na/2008w38/China.jpg
AP

“QUALITY and safety are the foundations of social harmony,” proclaim
posters at the headquarters of the Sanlu Group in Shijiazhuang, capital
of China’s northern province of Hebei. Sanlu was until recently one of
China’s biggest producers of milk powder. Now, dozens of people, many
clutching infants, queue in the hot sun outside to return powder that
could be contaminated with a potentially lethal chemical. The harmony of
China’s consumers has rarely been so tested.

Hunger on the rise: Soaring prices add 75 million people to global
hunger rolls

FAO estimates had put the number of people suffering from chronic
hunger worldwide in 2003-05 at 848 million, an increase of 6 million
from the 842 million in 1990-92, the World Food Summit baseline
period. Soaring food, fuel and fertilizer prices have exacerbated the
problem, the organization said. Food prices rose 52 percent between
2007 and 2008, and fertilizer prices have nearly doubled over the past
year.
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Rising prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the
hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished
people worldwide to 923 million in 2007, FAO said today.

High food prices have reversed the previously positive trend towards
achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the
proportion of people suffering from hunger worldwide by 2015,
according to new figures just released by the UN agency in advance of
next week’s General Assembly session on the MDGs.

So, Bush has a plan to bail out the mortgage industry with a five to
eight billion dollars!???! Where does he get the money from?

One of the reasons why the lending business has ended in a big hole is
because everybody has had the assumption that there is easy ``greed is
great'' money to be made in borrowing money cheap from the government
and then lend it out to consumers at higher interest rates.

Furthermore, a lot of the loans are called government-backed, meaning
if you failed to collect your greed money, the government would bail
you out. So, those of you who could borrow hundreds of millions or
even billions to loan them to the consumers, then you'd be making tons
of money, guaranteed.

Now on paper, Congress has passed all the laws to nail those who are
delinquent on repayment of their loans. So, why would they pay back?

The trouble is the delinquents don't have jobs to bring them money to
pay back. And why don't they have jobs? They don't have jobs because
there isn't real capital to create steady jobs like GE, GM,...

The Portrait of an Infanticidal Olympic Host -- Chinese tainted milk
crisis widens/The Toronto Star

Chinese tainted milk crisis widens

TheStar.com - World - Chinese tainted milk crisis widens
JIANAN YU/REUTERS

http://multimedia.thestar.com/images/27/0e/852f9e024d19804eafb4f2ea79...
A child who suffered from kidney stones is treated at hospital in
China’s Anhui province Sept. 15, 2008. Contaminated milk formula has
been linked to two deaths and has sickened some 1,250 infants.
10 per cent of liquid milk tested

Chinese War Criminals
http://www.hkfront.org/plaen.htm

The Portrait of a Poisonous Olympic Host -- Chinese tainted milk crisis
widens/The Toronto Star

Chinese tainted milk crisis widens

TheStar.com - World - Chinese tainted milk crisis widens
JIANAN YU/REUTERS

http://multimedia.thestar.com/images/27/0e/852f9e024d19804eafb4f2ea793c.jpeg
A child who suffered from kidney stones is treated at hospital in
China’s Anhui province Sept. 15, 2008. Contaminated milk formula has
been linked to two deaths and has sickened some 1,250 infants.
10 per cent of liquid milk tested

Surge of Cross-Border M&A Deals by Chinese Banks Is Creating
Opportunities for Foreign Banks

Chinese Banks Have Good Reason to Venture Abroad but Face a Range of
Challenges as They Pursue Cross-Border Deals
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Chinese banks have been pursuing larger, more ambitious M&A deals.
Many deals have involved taking stakes in foreign institutions,
according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The
report, titled Venturing Abroad: Chinese Banks and Cross-Border M&A ,
released on September 18, 2008.

From 1993 through 2005, Chinese banks made an average of about one
cross-border acquisition per year. Most deals were valued at under $20
million. Since then, Chinese banks have made 11 cross-border M&A
deals. Five of these were worth at least $1 billion.