The State Council released the latest draft of a ban on smoking in public spaces for public consultation Monday, South China Morning Post reported. The draft regulations would ban smoking at all indoor and some outdoor public spaces in China, which is the world’s largest cigarette manufacturer and consumer, with more than 300 million smokers. […]
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Mainland China’s largest drug distributor, Sinopharm (1099:HKG), plans to issue 198.8 million shares of new stock in an effort to raise HK$5.5 billion, The South China Morning Post reported, citing an announcement by the Hong Kong stock exchange. New shares will be issued at HK$28.4, a 7.5% discount from their closing price on November 21, and will […]
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Metastasized growth
A new study has found that the five-year survival rate of cancer patients in China is 30.9%, compared to 66% in the United States, South China Morning Post reported. The report also found that the prevalence of cancer has doubled over the last two decades, reaching a level of 285.91 cases per 100,000 people in 2009. Rural patients were […]